Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Hippocratic Oath (1995)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

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• Chief O'Brien : Keiko only spends a few days at a time on the station. I'm the one living in those quarters. And if I want to set up a little workshop in the bedroom...

  Dr. Bashir : You set up a workshop in the bedroom?

  Chief O'Brien : Yeah. I don't use it when she's visiting.

  Dr. Bashir : Of course not.

  Chief O'Brien : She says I'm trying to live like a bachelor again. That I'm expressing a subconscious desire to push her out of our quarters.

  Dr. Bashir : Now, that *is* ridiculous.

  Chief O'Brien : That's what I said!

  Dr. Bashir : I mean... if anything, by spending your free time in the bedroom, a place you intimately associate with Keiko, you are actually expressing a... desire to be closer to her, during her absence. It... 's quite touching, really.

  Chief O'Brien : Exactly! Exactly! See, you understand. Now, why can't she see that? Why can't she be more like...

  Dr. Bashir : More like...?

  Chief O'Brien : Well - a man. Mo-more like a man?

  Dr. Bashir : So... you wish... Keiko... was a man?

  Chief O'Brien : I wish I was on this trip with someone else, that's what I wish!

• Dr. Bashir : [on an unknown planet]  A lovely place. - Smells like a garbage dump.

  Chief O'Brien : I'm sorry I couldn't find a nicer place to crash-land. Should we try again?

• Goran'Agar : Human. Gold uniform indicates a specialty in Security or Engineering. Rank: Chief Petty Officer. You are what Starfleet refers to as a 'non-com'.

  Chief O'Brien : That's right.

  Goran'Agar : You must have a great deal of experience.

  Chief O'Brien : I've been around.

  Goran'Agar : That makes you a priority target. We will kill you first.

• Arak'Taral : You don't like helping us.

  Chief O'Brien : No, I don't.

  Arak'Taral : Good. I don't like it either.

  Chief O'Brien : I'm glad we understand each other.

• Chief O'Brien : I'd hate to think what'd make the Jem'Hadar jumpy.

• [Goran'Agar intends to kill his men] 

  Dr. Bashir : You don't have to do this. Even if we can't save their lives, there's no need to sacrifice yourself.

  Goran'Agar : [to O'Brien]  You are a soldier?

  Chief O'Brien : I have been.

  Goran'Agar : Then you explain.

  [he walks off and vanishes into the jungle] 

  Chief O'Brien : He's their Commander. They trusted him. He can't leave them.

• Chief O'Brien : I wish things could've been different, Julian.

  Dr. Bashir : So do I.

  Chief O'Brien : And I'm... sorry I had to destroy your work.

  Dr. Bashir : You didn't "have" to, Chief. You had a choice; and you chose to disobey orders, override my judgment... and condemn those men to death.

  Chief O'Brien : Yes, I did. Because I thought it was the only way to save your life. Whatever else you may think of who I am and what I did, at least try to understand that.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Bashir : Tonight's supposed to be our weekly darts game.

  Chief O'Brien : Don't worry. I don't feel much like playing either.

  Dr. Bashir : Maybe in a few days.

• Chief O'Brien : Stop being so naive, Julian, and look at them for what they are. They're killers. That's all they know how to do. That's all they *want* to do.