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u/Both_Archer_3653 1d ago
At first i was worried he passed away. That poster at a quick glance...
But then to think those Ellison trolls would ever green light something like this.
We don't live in a beautiful enough world.
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u/ArtsyApoidean 1d ago
If it got enough meme magic they'd greenlight it but then it would completely misunderstand what everyone loves about the character and ruin itself.
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u/tankiolegend 1d ago
We all know O'brien must suffer and he's a union man so the Ellison trolls might make it just to try and claim unionists must suffer 😭
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u/xiewadu 1d ago
"At first i was worried he passed away."
Same. I was terrified.
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u/Spedoinkel 1d ago
Kept thinking how could he have made it through Deep Space 9? But I spent so many nights thinking how he stayed so strong. But them came Rom. And he made that union come along.
So, Colm is back. From outer space. And I would watch a new show with a smile on my face.
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 1d ago
You'd think that Paramount would do anything at all that's pro-union?
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u/helpusdrzaius 1d ago
We love it!! But can we make it O'Brien, Oil Man?
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas 1d ago
"We'll greenlight this project only if it's 'Miles O'Brien, Pinkerton'."
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u/I_am_Daesomst Coffee, Jamaican Blend, double strong, double sweet 1d ago
I want 7 seasons and 3 movies, please
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u/King_Wataba 1d ago
Julian and Garak need to be in the cast too please
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u/Garbanzo_Beanie 1d ago
So this is going to be a zany two couples next door comedy eh?
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u/shadow387557 1d ago
If this was HBO, we’d get them fully gay and hanging dong.
If O’Brien must suffer. Do it Game of Thrones style
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u/beanmosheen 1d ago edited 1d ago
Star Trek: Transporter 2. And this time, O'Brian means buisnessssss.
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u/BennyOcean 1d ago
The show alludes to him having been through wars. An O'Brien show would probably be about him as a young man and would be recast with an actor in his 20s.
Honestly they built up Kurzon Dax as enough of a legend that he could warrant his own show. And he's quasi-immortal which could give the show opportunities to do flashbacks into the deep past like they did on the show 'Highlander'.
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u/jojojawn 1d ago
Oh oh oh! And then about every 2.5 seasons they do a big recast and Dax gets a new body. That'll keep the budget tight because new actors will jump at the chance to be Dr. Dax. They'll call it a rejuvenation. And then Dax could get in a small shuttle with a friend to go explore space over the course of a period of time.
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u/JeanGreyDax 1d ago
I've always wanted a cross JeanGreyDax. Marvel ala better via Star Trek.
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u/roarimacat 1d ago
DS9 and TNG do more than just allude. It's explicitly stated on repeated occasions that he participated in the federation cardassian war, and several episodes go into details. He was a tactical officer on the Rutledge, and TNG has an episode highlighting that. And his war experiences are discussed quite a bit more on DS9. I recall Garak on one episode calling him the hero of one of a bloody battle. The only other war he participated in was the dominion war, and we've already seen that.
I don't really think that justifies a show unless they want to make one about the Cardassian war itself, but the Dax one, or one following another Trill, could be interesting. In a similar vein, a Lanthanite it El-Aurian show would be interesting.
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u/Secret_Cod_749 1d ago
It's just O'Brien, retired with Keiko, being proud of Molly and little Kirayoshi as they chart their own path.
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u/RedLanternScythe 1d ago edited 1d ago
Every episode is just the O'Briens sitting on a couch watching holos of their grandkids playing.
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u/Secret_Cod_749 1d ago
Please say you mean Holos and not Holes
Dear gods. Please let them not be old home movies because Jean-Luc and Beverly fucked and now Jack is the Borg Prince.
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u/pokeblueballs 21h ago
It's 30 years post Dominion war, in those 30 years the occupation and rebuilding of Cardassia has been a quagmire. The Federation has been unsuccessful in trying to get them self sufficient due to the Klingons demands for tribute and war reparations, and Romulans constantly changing their position just to sow discord and hopefully drive a wedge between the Federation and Klingons. The Federation finally achieves a deal to massively improve Cardassian infrastructure and they need someone to head up the project, so they call upon the one Irishman who has a wealth of knowledge in integration of Federation and Cardassian technology.
O'Brian has spent the last 30 years quietly teaching at the academy, Molly has become an officer, while Yoshi has been working with his Mother at the daystrom Institute in Okinawa. Kaiko has won 2 awards on academic papers she's authored on the similarities between plants on Bajor and plants found near the wormhole in the Gamma quadrant. But she has also seen how bored her husband has become. And urges him to accept the assignment, to enjoy a new challenge.
Miles believes he has put his 2 wars with Cardassia far behind him. But will he uncover that his traumas aren't that far gone as he thought? Will he uncover a plot to destroy all his hard work? Will he help a broken people learn to fight for their own self determination? Will he rekindle a friendship that has been separated for decades by light years? And will a simple tailor help the son of Dukat become the leader Cardassia needs?
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u/Trraumatized 1d ago
I thought "WOAH that would be awesome" and then I realized that they would fuck it up.
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u/cinder74 18h ago
I would watch this.
Or what about a series about Worf’s son, Alexander, trying to integrate into Klingon society.
Better yet- a series about young Garak. Perhaps his time in the obsidian order. Or after the dominion war.
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u/jasno- 1d ago
Only if it's set in the mirror universe
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u/Potential-Night4986 1d ago
Is that the one where he stands toward the opposite end of the console while waiting to transport someone?
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u/Morlock19 1d ago
so when i saw the frist season of star trek: picard, i thought it was going to be an anthology show. starts off focusing on picard, he gets his end, and then moves on to seven of nine. and then that might dove tail into kira, or obrien. each season checks in on a classic character in the 25th century - we might see them blossom into something new, we might see them getting the finale they deserved, we might see some die, but it would be a fresh story every year.
this would have been season 3 imo.
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u/Remote_Salt_1137 22h ago
Given the track record of the last decade I wouldn't trust them with Miles.
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u/itsyaboythatguy 19h ago
so long as the get Ira back to be the show runner. it would also need Bashir and Garak as recurring characters.
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u/captainwanejay 1d ago
At least the NuTrek writers wouldn’t have to make up any new trauma or suffering
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u/Psychological_Ad2080 1d ago
In at least 3 of the 12 seasons, and 4 movies of this show, I want to see more holodeck time with Julian. Show us the Alamo, and dogfighting in ww1...
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u/hyst0rica1_29 1d ago
I’ve seen it at least a dozen times, but Honor Among Thieves is a fave, up there, for me, with By the Pale Moonlight & Rocks & Shoals.
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u/PROUDCIPHER 1d ago
I would love it, but given the state of most of modern Trek right now I'm afraid they'd just make him a gleeful war criminal and lean way, way too hard on the Miles "Cardie Killer" O'Brien schtick, and we'd get to see Molly only long enough to see that she's developed a debilitating neurosis. idk maybe I'm being overly cynical but I just don't have a lot of trust right now. Thank god LD and SNW are good, so it's not all bad
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u/Practical-Owl-9358 1d ago
One episode should be him living an entire season compressed into that episode.
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u/LeDestrier 1d ago
Station Nightmares.
Has O'Brien unleashed, going around to various Federation deep space stations and tearing the staff a new one for the state of disrepair and shoddy workmanship.
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u/ladyjayne81 1d ago
No way, man, that would be three of the most depressing, anxiety-causing seasons. That poor man!
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u/FiduciaryBlueberry 1d ago
Starfleet Academy but set after the Dominion War with O'Brien on earth, teaching. Maybe he is caught up in some starfleet intelligence shenanigans
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u/John_Tacos 13h ago
O’Brian teaching at Starfleet Academy.
Episode 3 his daughter shows up in his class (she enrolled without telling him).
The show follows his family and her friends and classmates. As the events of other shows happen around them.
A training mission gone wrong where he has to engineer a way out of a problem.
Molly saves her classmates on a class survival lesson with lessons she learned from her father.
There is definitely enough for a series
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u/jaques_sauvignon 1d ago
Every episode is just Keiko breaking his balls and them bickering. Every. Episode.
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u/Not_a_Rodeo_Clown 1d ago
Honest question - is Keiko dead? Cause if so, and like ten years ago so our boy is over it and getting back out there awkwardly on Deep Space 12? Yeah three seasons aren’t going to be quite enough, but a good start.
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u/RichYogurtcloset3672 1d ago
Nah, he's just been working on the federation rail transportaion system..
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u/Muted-Actuary6123 20h ago
Keiko doesn’t need to be dead. Miles, Keiko and Nerys could just be opening up the polycule.
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u/the908bus 1d ago
In the same way that people share that Adama’s quote about police and military, I want O’Brien to enter the zeitgeist and bring unionism back
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u/Sea_Worldliness502 1d ago
A two pronged show featuring Miles at the Academy and serving on various boards creating policy, and Molly having to deal with the fallout of how those policies affect the lower ranks could make for a dramatic show.
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u/goodBEan 1d ago
Well because of Star Trek Acadamy we are not going to get the Emissary or the return of Avery Brooks (concept title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbOqlimFlo)
I do want to see some kind of return of the DS9 crew.
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u/4StarEmu 1d ago
Wait how??
Season 2 ended with O’Brien waist deep in waste fixing a plasma converter when somebody shot him with a Varon-T disruptor.
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u/Upnatom617 1d ago
Best I can do is a ninety minute movie. Direct to streaming called section 31 stembolts.
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u/tacotickles 1d ago
I wish Paramount would just sell all the Star Trek IP to some one more competent
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u/AnansiNazara 1d ago
Honestly if we were to do an O’Brien series make it just before and the entirety of the first cardassian war
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u/ImOldGregg_77 1d ago
oh....i like this. it could be 1/2 Colm Meaney and 1/2 Young O'Brien played by <insert someone>
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u/Levi_Skardsen 1d ago
I don't trust the current showrunners to treat Miles with the respect he deserves.
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u/PastorNTraining 1d ago
If we have a PIC era Academy show where the legends like the EMH, Janeway and O’Brien being the commodore would have been great.
The “working man runs university” angle would be great. Molly would be an adult and his son could have been the new cadet we could have POV’ed.
We would have gotten DS9, familiar faces and we could have still tackled the progressive storytelling we see in the DISCO era, but I’d argue those issue, grounded and framed by 90s era characters would have been a better experience.
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u/Nowhereman50 1d ago
It would be nice but it would literally be 3 seasons of O'Brian fast-walking around fixing things with an annoyed look on his face.
Got a good laugh out of one of the earlier episodes of DS9 where a Klingon is holding O'Brian hostage and fires a disruptor at the ceiling as a threat. O'Brian looked up where it hit like, "Yeah, good. I'll have to fix that too."
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u/Expensive_Guidance95 1d ago
No. Simply because Star Trek has routinely ripped down and torn down legacy characters to basically replace them with some sub-par replacement.
I also think O'Brien is the wrong person to focus on because he doesn't consider himself a hero, he's incredibly modest and I like where we've left him at the end of DS9, he doesn't need more poking into or more cameos (etc)
NGL - I want a non-legacy, completely new show with a new cast set after DS9 by a decade or two without the Picard elements. Just give us something completely new with the old intent of Star Trek which was less grimdark depressing.
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u/hts115 1d ago
The chief engineer teaches you how to repair a starships and space station
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u/Voluntary_Perry 1d ago
Doesn't O'Brien hold the record for most episodes on screen? He was in a ton of TNG and all of DS9.
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u/Flippant_Fop 1d ago
Can you imagine? No war. No great threat. Just a man trying to make things work.
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u/Bushido_Seppuku 1d ago
First two seasons is him lying in a hospital bed on life support, while Keiko holds his hand.
Season 3 the old gang busts him out of the hospital, sticks a comm badge right on his hospital gown and screams, "Everyone not old has been turned into Borg! We need you to--" set blows up sending rocks and blue ribbon lightning in all directions
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u/psychonauteer 1d ago
While I'm not opposed to this, can we just get some new, original, competitent Trek?
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u/JuniperGem 1d ago
With the way things have been going lately, and with that picture, at first I thought this was another kind of post. 😭
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u/Sea-Durian2812 1d ago
I would legitimately love this. Give me this with flashbacks to different parts of his life.
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u/debunkedscientist 1d ago
The daughter and son hunt down section 31 one by one glorious basterds style.
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u/whiplash5057 1d ago
Imagine an entire season of episodes like Whispers and Visionary from DS9… I miss old trek so so much 😭😭😭
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u/SodaAndWater 1d ago edited 8h ago
There are so many projects like this the fans would just love. If only.. instead of.. sigh.
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u/8peter8retep8 1d ago
He technically already had his own Inner Light equivalent, but they could do a new one about his alternate life as a cheese mongrel who ends up reuniting with his lost son, before tragically passing away.
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u/Honda_TypeR 22h ago
No need right behind worf he is the next in line of actors who had the most episode screen time in all Star Trek history. (Because they both had TNG and DS9)
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u/TacticalTeacake 21h ago
It always bothered me that we only ever really spend time with Officers in Startrek. I'd have loved to have seen more NCOs or enlisted.
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u/Tmelrd275 17h ago
Nope sorry, you only get two and a half because the replicator is broken and Keiko must make Miles suffer for it.
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u/Which_Specific9891 17h ago
I don't trust the current people in charge of Star Trek to trust them to do this justice.
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u/No_Pool3305 8h ago
Make it a time travel story where he causes Irish reunification (like a working man’s Sarek) and we get the whole thing banned from the UK
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u/Accomplished-Taro-53 1d ago