Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

For the Cause (1996)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

Quotes 

• [O'Brien and Worf are discussing the Maquis] 

  Lt. Commander Worf : They should be hunted down and destroyed!

  Chief O'Brien : What for? Defending their homes? Look at what's happened to those people. One day they're eking out a living in some godforsaken colonies on the Cardassian border; the next day the Federation makes a treaty, handing those colonies over to the Cardassians. What would you do?

  Lt. Commander Worf : I would not become a terrorist. It would be dishonorable.

  Chief O'Brien : I wouldn't say that around Major Kira if I were you.

• Chief O'Brien : How about you, Commander? How do you feel about the Maquis?

  Michael Eddington : I don't have have any feelings about them one way or the other.

  Chief O'Brien : Oh, but you must have an opinion.

  Michael Eddington : I do my job, Chief. Starfleet says to find the Maquis, I'll find the Maquis; they tell me to help them, I'll help them; my opinion is irrelevant. What matters to me is doing my job like a Starfleet officer. Anything else... is an indulgence.