Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Paradise (1994)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

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Quotes 

• Chief O'Brien : It wasn't until I got to the Cardassian Front I found out I had talents I never knew I had... It was a matter of figuring out how to get a field transporter operational in ten minutes, or wind up being a Cardassian prisoner of war. Now, I didn't know a transporter from a turbolift in those days; but somehow, in 9min 53sec, I got that thing to work.

• Cassandra : What are women's fashions like back home now?

  Chief O'Brien : Well, Keiko, my wife, she's been replicating longer dresses lately.

  Cassandra : Oh, no. That means I'll have to alter everything I own.

• Commander Sisko : [reading]  "The common conceit that the human species has evolved over the last several centuries is ludicrous. What gains we have made have come at the cost of our own core identities. Man has lost touch with his true power."

  Chief O'Brien : Sounds like it took a crash landing for her to find her paradise.

• Chief O'Brien : Around my house, I'm known as the 'black thumb'... The only way I could get anything to grow was to marry a botanist.

• [Sisko reads in Alixus' journal about her views about mankind] 

  Commander Sisko : ...She says we have become fat and lazy and dull.

  Chief O'Brien : My wife told me something along those lines just last week.

• Chief O'Brien : [smugly,in his skivvies, standing above his now subdued attacker]  Well, you finally got one of us out of our uniform.