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File:OBrien2364.jpg
Caption:O'Brien in 2364
Gender:Male
Species:Human
Born:September 2328
Father:Michael O'Brien
Children:Molly and Kirayoshi
Wife:Keiko O'Brien
Actor:Colm Meaney
File:OBrien2375.jpg
Caption:O'Brien in 2375

Miles Edward O'Brien was born in Killarney in Ireland, Earth in 2328.

Career

In 2346, at the age of 18, he joined Starfleet as an enlisted crewman. His father had wanted O'Brien to take up a place at the Aldebaran Music Academy and become a concert performer, but he chose to join up instead. One of his first assignments was aboard the USS Rutledge, under the command of Benjamin Maxwell, where he served as junior Tactical Officer during the Cardassian War. A year later, O'Brien was present in the aftermath of the Setlik III massacre, where his technical skill was useful in repairing a field transporter, allowing himself and thirteen other Starfleet personnel to escape a Cardassian patrol. This earned him a promotion to primary Tactical Officer.

O'Brien transferred to the USS Enterprise in 2364, with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. During the Farpoint mission, O'Brien was assigned to Battle Bridge Conn, and was temporarily a Command officer. He later transferred back to engineering/security, and finally to the permanent position of Transporter Chief, where he was involved in, amongst other events, the rescue of Captain Picard from the Borg in 2367. By 2369, O'Brien had been operating transporters for 22 years. His preferred transporter room aboard the Enterprise was number three.

In that year, O'Brien left the Enterprise, transferring to Deep Space 9 - promoted to Master Chief Petty Officer - with the role of Chief of Operations. O'Brien's primary task during the early days of his posting was to repair the damage done during the withdrawal of the Cardassians from the station. He was instrumental in moving the station from its orbit of Bajor out to the Denorios Belt, following the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole.

Not long after, O'Brien received a note on his record for violating the Prime Directive, after assisting in the escape of a Tosk, one of the first contacts from the Gamma Quadrant, disobeying direct orders from Commander Sisko.

In 2370, O'Brien was assisting the T'Lani and Kellerun militaries in disarming and neutralizing their harvester weapons when a sabotage attempt exposed him to deadly nanobiogenic gel. In the resultant escape and rescue, O'Brien almost succumbed to his injuries, but was saved by Julian Bashir, an act which developed their friendship (see Personal). Several months later, while assisting in preparations for a peace conference on Parada II, O'Brien was kidnapped and replaced with an exact duplicate (a replicant), created to disrupt the conference. That O'Brien later died after becoming aware of the threat, and the original was recovered by DS9 personnel.

In December of that year, O'Brien was arrested by Cardassian forces, and put on trial for allegedly supplying weapons to the Maquis. The charges were later discovered to be part of a conspiracy to discredit the Federation and give the Union a stronger position on which to negotiate, and O'Brien was released.

O'Brien was killed in 2371, after becoming infected with delta-series radioisotopes following an accident aboard the station. This had the effect, coupled with the presence of a cloaked Romulan warbird nearby, of shifting O'Brien forward in time by several hours. His death occured when he deliberately contaminated himself further, in order to determine the exact cause of events he had witnessed. He was 'replaced' by his counterpart from the timeline he visited. Thus, events that occurred to O'Brien from this point on involved the duplicate, rather than the 'original'.

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Shortly before the end of the war, O'Brien accepted a position at Starfleet Academy as a professor of Engineering. Following the Battle of Cardassia, O'Brien departed Deep Space Nine for Earth, to take up this new role.

Personal

Family and Childhood

O'Brien has traced his ancestry back to the 11th-century Irish king Brian Boru (whom he would occasionally play in a holosuite program). Notable ancestors also include Sean Aloysius O'Brien.

As a child, O'Brien had a morbid fear of spiders. Following a mission on Zayra IV, where O'Brien was forced to make a critical repair in a Jefferies tube containing Talarian hook spiders, he found that his fear had lessened, and he later kept a spider, Christina, as a pet aboard the Enterprise.

He married Keiko Ishikawa aboard the Enterprise in 2367, and the couple had their first child, Molly, the following year. Both joined O'Brien aboard DS9, albeit reluctantly on Keiko's part, where their second child, Kirayoshi, was born in 2372. O'Brien had a difficult time dealing with this pregnancy, mainly as a result of the baby's forced 'relocation' to Kira Nerys, which saw the two struggling with a mutual attraction - one which both agreed to put aside.

As a ritual, before going into battle, O'Brien recorded a "goodbye" message for his family in the event of his death. Each time he did so, he believed it would be the one they would hear. Between 2367 and 2372, he had recorded a total of eleven messages.


Friends and Pastimes

Aboard Deep Space Nine, O'Brien forged a strong friendship with Julian Bashir, the station's CMO. Their friendly rivalry encompassed racquetball, darts, and other activities. The two were frequent users of the station's holosuites, usually for historical reenactments of events such as the Battle of Britain, and even created their own programs, including an accurate depiction of The Alamo.

O'Brien's one continuing passion was kayaking, and he frequently found himself visiting Sickbay or DS9's Infirmary for shoulder injuries sustained during programs. This eventually resulted in humeral socket replacement surgery in 2371 (although the injury that necessitated the operation was not sustained through the sport).

He also maintained his love of music, playing the cello aboard the Enterprise.

A favoured drink of O'Brien's was coffee - Jamaican blend, double strong, double sweet.


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