Riker-O'Brien disagreement?

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' started by Emperor-Tiberius, Mar 24, 2008.

  1. Burning Hearts of Qo'nOs

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    I never pass up a chance to comment on how heartbreakingly sad Miles looks in this scene with Riker.
     
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    Close. Riker stole Keiko and Molly away from O'Brien, but O'Brien got them back by using a stored pattern to restore them to the state they were in before Keiko started fooling around with Riker. ;)
     
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    I see you folks have been reading that "Chief O'Brien at Work" comic.

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    O'Brien shot Riker in the back on the bridge in "Power Play".
     
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  6. IconianArmy

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    I thought it had something to do with him taking the DS9 assignment leaving enterprise and the fued in the first episode between Picard and Sisko. Sisko clearly has deep resentment towards Picard. I’d just assumed that since Ritkers characters often is literally being the hand that wipes the ass of all things Picard perhaps he felt betrayed by O’Brien’s choice to “side,” with Sisko
     
  7. kkt

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    Doesn't make sense. In the service people transfer or get transfered all the time. No one resents people for it, or for taking a transfer that comes with a promotion. Sisko has an emotional reaction seeing Picard, but it's not a feud, they don't actually do anything to hurt each other. Sisko knows Picard didn't volunteer to be taken over by the Borg, and a few snippy lines are not a feud, and Riker wouldn't take it out on O'Brien anyway. Getting O'Brien out of the way fits what we saw a lot better.
     
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    Oh I agree with you I just remember from the conversation between the two Riker hitting him with a “you know why.” Maybe I’m misremembering that.
     
  9. saladdays

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    I'm pretty sure Riker says something to that effect. Although I'm still of the opinion that it either was absolutely nothing or nothing of any consequence, just so that O'Brien would lay off and not find out he wasn't the real Riker.
     
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    Leaving poor Miles to wander about the station all day recounting the last time he saw Riker, wondering what it could have been that he had done to upset him because #Obrienmustsuffer
     
  11. STEPhon IT

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    Getting O'Brien out of the way was Thomas Riker's objective; and being a superior officer, pretending to be Will, he knows Miles is not in a position to ask any questions. It was brilliant.
     
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    It was chaff, pure and simple.
     
  13. STEPhon IT

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    A missed opportunity to not have Thomas Riker the leader of the Maquis. Have an operative rescue him, and take the plot to a place where Eddington was a pawn.