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Miles Edward O'Brien is a character in the fictional ''. OVERVIEW In the ''DS9'' episode " Bar Association ", O'Brien jokingly claimed to be a direct descendant of Irish High King Brian Boru . Later on in the same episode, and more seriously, he spoke of his ancestor Sean Aloysius O'Brien, who participated in the 1902 coal miners' strike in Pennsylvania , and was shot over 30 times and dumped into the Allegheny River . Miles O'Brien was born in Killarney, Ireland in September 2328. His father, Michael O'Brien, wanted him to be a cellist. His audition tape was sent to the Aldebaran Music Academy and he was accepted, but a few days before he was scheduled to start classes there, he joined Starfleet . O'Brien participated in war against the "), and after transferring to Deep Space Nine, commanded by Commander Benjamin Sisko , they had a son, Kirayoshi , through a surrogate pregnancy by their crewmate Major Kira . Chief O'Brien also served aboard the USS ''Defiant'' under Captain Sisko and Lt. Commander Worf . Miles O'Brien exists in the Mirror Universe first discovered by James T. Kirk in the original series episode "Mirror, Mirror". In the ''DS9'' episode " Crossover ", Dr. Julian Bashir encounters the mirror O'Brien as a Terran slave working the ore processing machines at Terok Nor . The mirror Sisko did not like the name "Miles" so he calls the mirror O'Brien "Smiley". In the episode " Visionary ", O'Brien had an accident in which he was poisoned by radiation and experienced several time shifts, each five hours into the future, witnessing a bar brawl, his own death twice, and the destruction of the station. At the end of the episode, he deliberately subjected himself to more radiation in order to time shift to the future to see exactly what caused the destruction. But the radiation was too much, and the past O'Brien died, while the future O'Brien went back in time to tell Sisko that there was a cloaked Romulan ''Warbird'' circling the station, plotting to destroy it. When visiting Argrathl, O'Brien asked too many questions and was quickly convicted of espionage and sentenced to 20 years simulated incarceration compressed into a short time span (in the episode " Hard Time "). In the simulation, Ee'char was his cellmate, and, eventually, his friend. O'Brien killed Ee'char in a jealous rage upon discovering one night that Ee'char had a small food stash that he'd kept secret from their captors (and from O'Brien as well, in the process) but afterward O'Brien realized that Ee'char had been planning to share it with him. When O'Brien came back to ''DS9'', he felt such intense guilt at having been capable of violently murdering his best and only friend - even if it was all only a simulation - that he was constantly haunted by visions of Ee'char and seriously considered suicide. Dr. Bashir gave him a medicine to prevent future hallucinations, but told him he'd still have to go to a counselor to deal with the feelings of guilt. When Sisko had a vision about racial prejudice in 1950s Earth, O'Brien appeared in the vision as a science-fiction writer named Albert who avoided issues of race by writing about robots. At the end of ''Deep Space Nine'', O'Brien and his family moved back to Earth , where Miles became a professor of Engineering at Starfleet Academy . RANK O'Brien appeared on '''' began, where he was promoted and began wearing a single black pip with a gold ring around it (assumed to be a Warrant Officer rank). Later, the confusion was cleared up, when a new pin was made with 3 chevrons, and one dot (similar to the US Navy arm patch for Senior Chief Petty Officer); however, he was continually referred to as "Chief O'Brien", not the standard "Senior Chief O'Brien". Many people believe that an enlisted rank, such as O'Brien held, would not have held such a position aboard Deep Space Nine . However, Starfleet, being similar to the US and UK navies, Chief Petty Officer s traditionally hold a lot of sway in command decisions, and are considered equal with Commander or Lieutenant Commander ranks when making decisions. CPO's are also much older, and wiser than the younger officers, and traditionally hold high positions in engineering or maintenance on submarines, ships, or aircraft. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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