11010010 Evactuation Scene

[Trekker4747]

In Season 1 O"Brien mostly seemed to be in a red shirt putting him in the "command" jobs which seems to include navigation. What we later know about his rank it's possible at this time he's just a Petty Officer given the grunt work to do. The 24th century equivalent of swabbing the decks. (Or cleaning the holodeck after Riker gets done in there.)

In S2 he's seems to have gained a promotion to Chief Petty Officer and switched to the Operations department where he oversaw transporter duties. I personally wondered at times if he wasn't also the Enterprise's COB.

In 10110010 (or whatever) he wasn't on the ship but had left with Yar and Worf to play Parisi Squares.

 

[Timo]

We may argue that there are two different O'Briens in the TNG continuity: one that was told by the time-traveling Picard of "All Good Things..." to pursue an engineering career aboard the ship, and another who wasn't. For consistency's sake, though, we would probably be seeing the Picard-influenced guy in all the TNG episodes, and Picard would "always" have been there to talk to him. But nevertheless it would take O'Brien some time to come around to pursuing the path suggested by Picard, and to get rid of that red shirt.

Which is a bit odd, because in DS9 "Paradise", O'Brien says he originally wore some non-gold color (no doubt associated with the job he first got when running away from his cello lessons to Starfleet as per "Playing God"), and started wearing gold when pressed to duty as the Tactical Officer of the Rutledge back in 2347 or so. Fifteen years later, he's fighting infantry battles in the Cardassian War ("Tribunal", "Empok Nor"); a few years on, he's piloting the E-D battle section in red.

Quite a bit of flip-flopping there. Although we can always argue that gold back in 2347 was not the same as gold in TNG... But more like the new red.

Whether O'Brien is a security officer in "Lonely Among Us" is debatable. He just happens to intercept the Anticaan who wanders outside his designated area. It would be rather logical for a transporter chief to do that - after all, the Selay and the Anticaans insisted on immediately going the opposite ways after beaming aboard, so the transporter rooms could well be exactly between their designated quarters.

(To tie this with the evacuation issue, we could argue that O'Brien at the time was in charge of those transporters most likely to be handling dignitaries, away teams and the like; the ones taking care of civilian evacuation would no doubt be on an entirely different deck.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Mr_Homn]

(To tie this with the evacuation issue, we could argue that O'Brien at the time was in charge of those transporters most likely to be handling dignitaries, away teams and the like; the ones taking care of civilian evacuation would no doubt be on an entirely different deck.)

Timo Saloniemi

That's what I was thinking. I don't think he was part of security. He just happened to be near them at the time.

The idea of O'Brien being the 24th century version of the stereotypical Irish Cop is somewhat amusing though.

 

[Danny99]

I can't remember the exact point, but there was some bad editing here. There was one shot where there was a crewman running down a corridor and then in the next shot, he is in line in the transporter room. Always struck me as odd.