Memory Alpha
Memory Alpha
Round of ale 2366

Toolbox: Citation needed • Page citation needed • Inaccurate • Inaccurate POV • Incomplete • PNA • Stubs • Unformatted • Unwritten articles

Useful links:

Articles created

Favourite MA

Library

Reference works I own:

O'Brien Must Suffer

The DS9 writing staff had a running joke where the character would suffer significant trauma at least once per season. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, pp. 328 & 389) According to Ira Behr, "Every year in one or two shows we try to make his life miserable, because you empathize with him." Robert Hewitt Wolfe further explains, "If O'Brien went through something torturous and horrible, the audience was going to feel that, in a way they wouldn't feel it with any of the other characters. Because all the other characters were sort of, I wouldn't say larger than life, but nobler than life, but O'Brien was just a guy, trying to live his life and so if you tortured him that was a story." (Crew Dossier: Miles O'Brien, DS9 Season 5 DVD, Special Features)