![]() He also stood duty in the security department, but was most often seen working as transporter chief, where he was involved in, among other events, the rescue of Captain Picard from the Borg in 2367. During the Farpoint Mission, he was assigned as relief flight control officer. O'Brien transferred to the USS Enterprise-D in 2364 with the rank of chief petty officer, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. During a salvage mission to Empok Nor, Elim Garak challenged O'Brien to a game of Kotra, saying he would love to play against the "Hero of Setlik III." ( DS9: " Empok Nor") O'Brien was even styled "the hero of Setlik III" due to his actions in an engagement with Cardassian forces on that planet, a title he seemed to tolerate rather than enjoy. ( DS9: " Emissary", " Captive Pursuit", " The Homecoming", " The Siege", " Tribunal") Many years later, he remarked to Glinn Daro that it was not Cardassians that he hated, but rather the person he became because of them. He often referred to them by the derogatory term " Cardies". Until then, O'Brien had never killed anything or anyone (he was even worried about swatting mosquitoes as a child) and the incident left him with a deep-seated resentment towards Cardassians, bordering on outright racism on occasion. He was able to incapacitate one of them, but in fighting with the other one he accidentally killed his assailant when a phaser passed to him was set to maximum. O'Brien also served as part of a squad to aid the survivors of the massacre, as Cardassians were still patrolling the settlement he helped a group of women and children but was ambushed by two Cardassians. This earned him a promotion to primary tactical officer. A year later, O'Brien was present at the aftermath of the Setlik III massacre, where his technical skill was useful in repairing a field transporter, allowing him and thirteen other Starfleet personnel to escape a Cardassian patrol. 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. ( DS9: " The Jem'Hadar")īenjamin Maxwell, Miles' former commanding officer in 2367 O'Brien's career was so well respected that Captain Keogh of the USS Odyssey considered the chief's experiences an asset before launching a rescue mission for Commander Benjamin Sisko in the Gamma Quadrant in 2370. ( DS9: " Rules of Engagement", " Broken Link") Because of his impressive military record, O'Brien was recognized by a Starfleet formal inquiry at the request of the Klingon attorney, Ch'Pok, as an expert in starship combat. ( DS9: " Shadowplay", " Treachery, Faith and the Great River")Īs of stardate 49648, O'Brien had served aboard a half dozen starships, participated in 235 separate combat engagements, and been decorated by Starfleet on fifteen occasions. ![]() In 2345, at the age of 17, O'Brien joined Starfleet as an enlisted crewman, where he attended Engineering School. 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 Lycosa tarantula, named Christina, as a pet aboard the Enterprise-D. ( DS9: " Shadowplay")Īs a child, O'Brien had a morbid fear of spiders. The two later reconciled their differences and O'Brien's father was eventually extremely proud of his son and his accomplishments. O'Brien declined the offer of admission to the Music Academy and enrolled in Starfleet – against his father's wishes. When Miles was seventeen years old, his father sent a recording of his work to the Aldeberan Music Academy. ( DS9: " Invasive Procedures", " Whispers") His relationship with his father had been a somewhat rocky one during Miles' adolescence Michael had pushed Miles to pursue his music career, making him practice the cello at least once a day, and was somewhat upset by his son's enlistment in Starfleet. His mother passed away in 2368 and his father, Michael, remarried a year later, though Miles never met his new stepmother. When preparing meals for her family, his mother would handle and cook meat. ![]() O'Brien was proud of the fact that he was raised on real food as his mother believed that replicated food was less nutritious. Another notable O'Brien ancestor was Sean Aloysius O'Brien. O'Brien claimed he could trace his ancestry back to the 11th century Irish king Brian Boru (whom he occasionally played in a holosuite program). Miles O'Brien was born in Ireland, Earth, in September 2328.
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