Reminder when he showed up originally the station was backwoods nothing until the discovery of the wormhole! :D

The decision was not difficult; he jammed his finger into option 2 immediately. That face he's making was caused by the celebratory hammer that swung down from under the table and hit him in the balls.

It's because he's Irish ... pure and simple ... the only prominent Irishman in the franchise and he has to suffer.

The Irish are only here for one thing and one thing only .... to suffer ... and to make us laugh ... but mainly to suffer.

I just saw the one where aliens implanted 20 years worth of memories in prison. That was fucked. Poor O'Brien.

shout out to that time Keiko went through menopause and threatened to kill everyone and opted to instead torture Miles for weeks before anyone cared enough to help.

I don't know if the work on the Enterprise was that boring. Slightly less exciting than DS9, but not by much. There were regular catastrophes, someone would beam up and turn into a horror, he almost blew up an ambassadorial conference when he very nearly transported two assassins and their bomb down, so on.

Um, what about that time on the Enterprise when he got possessed by some ancient evil and held his family at gunpoint and was this close to killing them?

Or that time he had to deal with his former captain trying to start a war with the Cardassian.

Heck, O’Brien had already survived Setlik III long before he was in the transporter room.

Truth is, O’Brien’s life in Starfleet is just one long line of suffering broken by periods of occasional peace.

I always thought it was a missed opportunity that he didn't volunteer for the Voyager mission when it passed DS9. It would just have been a month or two and they could really use his experience.

I mean, his job on the D was exactly “boring”

he gets injured on several occasions, a possesed Keiko by a pah wraith, a jem hadar giving him a pec twist.

he did become a dictator in another universe, his dream only to get nuked on a planet in another galaxy.