Chief O'Brien can kick your ***

[John Crichton]

The Spike Network shows Star Trek: TNG twice a night on weeknights. So I've been catching up on a lot of Trek. I had always thought that Chief O'Brien's appearance on the last episode "All Good Things..." was a bit of pandering. But then, guess what! I just saw the pilot "Encounter at Farpoint" again and he's in there. According to the episode list ( http://stng.36el.com/st-tng/episodes.html ) he is credited as "Battle Bridge Conn" . But then again, Geordi took the conn for the first season as well.

Given his appearances in seven seasons of TNG and seven seasons of DS9 that puts him serving the Federation for 14 years, the longest character run in Trek history (Worf didn't show up on DS9 until season four).

Accoring to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, this makes Chief O'Brien 39,857th level assuming that there is a maximum exp limit per adventure.

-BG

PS yes, I need to get out more

I think your reasoning may be off just a bit. O'Brien couldn't have served on the Enterprise and DS9 at the same time (the series overlapped for one year). When DS9 started, the Chief left the Enterprise. He would have been on Trek for 13 years as the last year of TNG he would have been on DS9. If memory serves, the Chief wasn't in any of the "present day" scenes of "All Good Things." Let me know if I'm wrong. That was one of my favorite episodes of TV ever and it has been a few years...

 

[Ranger REG]

Chief O'Brien did appeared on TNG series finale episode, "All Good Things..." as part of Picard's jumping through time between the past (including the scene from the series premiere episode, "Encounter at Farpoint"), present, and future.

He did not served on both Enterprise-D and DS-9. In fact, he transferred from Enterprise-D to DS-9 on TNG sixth season, promoted from Transporter Chief to Chief of Ops (also went from a recurring character role to a main role).

 

[s/LaSH]

Can we dock him a level for dying of radiation poisoning that one time? Although maybe it doesn't count, because his future self came back in time to take over his life.

Yeah.

O'Brian is one of those characters whose timeline starts looking like a tangled ball of wool that starts off yellow and has somehow turned into a red and blue scarf by the time you've untangled it...

 

[Mark]

Reginald Barclay also has over a decade, or so, IIRC.

 

[Silver Moon]

Can we dock him a level for dying of radiation poisoning that one time? Although maybe it doesn't count, because his future self came back in time to take over his life.

Okay, but you have to then add back in two levels for those two decades that he mentally spent in prison.

 

[Mouseferatu]

As a brief aside, has anyone noticed that in the future, all engineers with accents (yes, I'm speaking American-centrically here) are seriously cool, while those without accents are lame?

Scotty, O'Brien, Trip* = cool.

Geordi, Torres = boring characters.

Just something I realized.

(*Yes, "Southern" counts as an accent. Trust me, I live in Texas, I know. )

 

[kingpaul]

Geordi

Oh, I don't know. I kinda liked Geordi as an engineer.

*theme of Reading Rainbow wafts through the air*

But seriously, I thought he was a good engineer.

 

[fba827]

PS yes, I need to get out more

(Ahem)

"By mandate of all that is good and pure, BiggusGeekus, please step away from the computer and television. Thank you."

 

[danzig138]

Scotty, O'Brien, Trip*= cool.

Geordi, Torres = boring characters.

You seem to have accidentally mixed up Trip and Geordi. Geordi was cool. Trip is not cool. Neither is he hot. Boring, yes, that would be the word. Boring.

 

[VorpalBunny]

As a brief aside, has anyone noticed that in the future, all engineers with accents (yes, I'm speaking American-centrically here) are seriously cool, while those without accents are lame?

Scotty, O'Brien, Trip* = cool.

Geordi, Torres = boring characters.

Just something I realized.

(*Yes, "Southern" counts as an accent. Trust me, I live in Texas, I know. )

What about doctors with accents?

McCoy, Bashir = way cool
Crusher, Voyager's holographic doc = not cool.