Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
Hard Time (1996)
Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien
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Quotes
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : When we were growing up, they used to tell us, humanity had evolved. That mankind had outgrown hate and rage. But when it came down to it, when I had the chance to show that no matter what anyone did to me, I was still an evolved human being... I failed. I repaid kindness with blood. I was no better than an animal.
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[Chief O'Brien is holding a phaser under his chin, preparing to commit suicide]
Dr. Julian Bashir : Chief?
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : Get outta here, Julian.
Dr. Julian Bashir : You don't want to do this, Chief.
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : The hell I don't.
Dr. Julian Bashir : Look, I don't claim to know what you're going through, but whatever it is, it's not worth dying for.
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : You don't understand at all. I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing it to protect Keiko and Molly and everyone else on this station.
Dr. Julian Bashir : Protect us from what?
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : From me. I'm not the man I used to be. I'm dangerous. I nearly hit Molly today. All she wanted was a little attention, and I nearly hit her.
[He begins to sob]
Dr. Julian Bashir : But you didn't. You're a good man, Miles Edward O'Brien, and whatever it is you think you've done wrong, you don't deserve to die.
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Dr. Julian Bashir : I wasn't there with you, I didn't see what they did to you. But I do know you suffered, and that you're still suffering now, and I'm trying to help.
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : I never asked for your help.
Dr. Julian Bashir : You didn't need to ask. I'm your doctor, and your friend.
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[last lines]
Molly O'Brien : Daddy's home, Daddy's home!
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : That's right - Daddy's home.
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Major Kira : What you think you experienced in prison, the things you remember, didn't happen... It wasn't real.
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : It's real to me, Major... It's real to me.
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : Thanks, Julian. For everything.
Dr. Julian Bashir : What are friends for?
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Ee'char : My name is Ee'char.
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : Miles. Miles O'Brien.
Ee'char : Hello, Miles. Welcome to hell.
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[Kira returns with O'Brien from the Gamma Quadrant]
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : I used to dream about this - being in a runabout, coming through the wormhole, seeing the station again. Now I keep expecting to wake up and find myself back in the cell.
Major Kira : Being in your cell was a dream. *This* is the reality.
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : I'm home, I'm working. And for the first time in as long as I can remember, I feel good.
Ee'char : Then why am I here?
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : You're not real - you're just in my head.
Ee'char : That's all I ever was. But I'm real to you, and that's all that matters.
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : How can you sleep at a time like this?
Ee'char : Maybe I'll dream about food.
[laughs]
Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : You're crazy.
Ee'char : No... just hungry.
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : I wanted him to die. I keep telling myself... it doesn't matter, it wasn't real. But that's a lie. If it had been real, if it had been you instead of him, it wouldn't have made any difference. He was my best friend, and I murdered him!
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : You're not my friend, not any more! The O'Brien that was your friend died in that cell!
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Chief Miles Edward O'Brien : [to Ee'Char, while imagining they're in an Argrathi prison] I'm sick of it! I'm sick of this place! I'm sick of your drawings! And most of all, I am sick of you!