Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Changing Face of Evil (1999)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

Quotes 

• [On the Defiant, the crew is going through the pre-flight procedure] 

  Nog : This is bad, very bad.

  Colonel Kira : You say that every time we take the Defiant into battle.

  Nog : Impulse manifold purged and clear. - If we lose the Chin'toka system, we lose our only foothold in the Dominion territory. I think that qualifies as bad.

  Colonel Kira : Oh, we haven't lost it yet. - Initiating impulse pre-start sequence.

  Nog : Microfusion generators online. - But the Breen, they seem unstoppable. First Earth, now Chin'toka?

  Lt. Commander Worf : Ensign, no one is unstoppable. - Collimate the nadion emitters.

  Nog : Collimation sequence in progress.

  [Bashir and O'Brien enter the bridge] 

  Doctor Bashir : What more can I say, Miles, but 'I'm sorry'?

  Chief O'Brien : Dilithium matrix is aligned and calibrated. - Just be a bit more careful, that's all I ask.

  Colonel Kira : Opening antimatter injector ports. - Trouble in paradise?

  Doctor Bashir : It was nothing. - Emergency life support and damage control systems standing by.

  Chief O'Brien : I wouldn't call it nothing.

  Lieutenant Ezri Dax : Autonomous guidance system initialized and active.

  Chief O'Brien : He lost Travis.

  Colonel Kira : Hm - sounds serious. - Verify astrometric database.

  Doctor Bashir : Miles built this Alamo model, replete with small figures. Quite spectacular, actually. - Data sets loaded and verified. - Anyway, he was showing it to me in Quark's when we - rather I - accidentally misplaced Colonel Travis.

  Nog : Phaser safeties engaged. - Can't you make another one?

  Chief O'Brien : What, so he can lose it again? - Field stabilizers online.

  Colonel Kira : [playfully]  Well, that's what happens when you share your toys. - Synchronizing warp plasma flow...

  Chief O'Brien : It's not a toy! It's a model, built to scale.

  Doctor Bashir : He really did a fantastic job.

  Chief O'Brien : Nacelles holding at pre-warp threshold.

  Doctor Bashir : Miles, look...

• Captain Sisko : [of the Defiant]  She's a fine ship.

  Chief O'Brien : No one will argue with that. But like you say, it's time to go.

• [first lines] 

  Chief O'Brien : [Welcoming Worf and Ezri at the airlock]  Hey! Welcome back! Well, I for one never doubted you'd be back.

  Doctor Bashir : Neither did I.

  Chief O'Brien : Don't believe him. He was Mister Doom and Gloom all the time you were gone.

  Doctor Bashir : Well, I must admit I was a bit concerned.

  Chief O'Brien : We were all concerned. Your well-being was a constant source of conversation and speculation.

  Ezri Dax : You see, I told you they'd miss us. So, who won the betting pool?

  Doctor Bashir : Morn. He managed to guess the day when you'd be back. Only missed the time of your arrival by two hours.

  Chief O'Brien : He's amazing.

  Doctor Bashir : I don't know how he does it.