He does lots of things Keiko likes, and Keiko does lots of things he likes. Wearing that red dress that's a little too tight for comfort to the gratitude festival, lavish dinner cooked by hand for his birthday. I don't think either of them used "sir" or "ma'am" to each other.
How Would You Change "Deep Space Nine"?
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It was a joke.
Any married man would get it.
Any married man would get it.
I was married about about 12 years.
Naturally.
The only people that ever suggested that O'Brien was a Lieutenant were TNG's wardrobe department (and a single unscripted slip of the tongue by Jonathan Frakes once), when they gave him the two pips of a lieutenant in his third appearance (after him wearing a single pip as the unnamed CONN, retcon'd as Chief Miles O'Brien in AGT) and no pip as an unnamed security guard in his second appearance), despite him being listed as "Transporter Chief" not "Lieutenant" or similar and the option of a single black pip (his correct rank no later than Family) being established for Miss Gladstone (a sciences specialist in the E-D education department), in the same episode which he appears for the first time as "Transporter Chief".
IMO, while wardrobe details (even if not present in the script) can be taken as canon, they are trumped by scripted dialogue if it appears in the aired episode, so the references to O'Brien being a "Chief Petty Officer" during Family (particularly as it was the first scene written for Miles O'Brien specifically rather than the generic Transporter Chief who happened to be played by Colm Meaney), particularly as All Good Things establishes that CONN was Chief O'Brien as Captain Picard refers to him as such through out the past scenes of the finale, rather than the generic CONN or as Mister O'Brien, which would cover a variety of different options.
IMO, if anything the "inside joke" was the extent to which some fans will obsess over and advocate for the tiniest detail even the vast bulk of the evidence supports a different conclusion if anything.
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Honestly, I'm not sure her sleeping with either of them was a good idea.
Yeah, not a good look since she is the station's counselor and likely expected to treat station personnel.
She must be allowed to sleep with someone on the station.
"Must?"
So you're saying counselors assigned to DS9 have to be celibate the whole time?
No. I'm questioning the "must" aspects of sexuality. There's Bajor and ships coming and going.
Yes. Must in the sense that I don't think it's right to say someone can't have sex because they are a counselor on DS9. I don't see a problem as long as the one they are sleeping with isn't a client.
Now I'm wondering if Troi ever had sex with a shipmate.
Riker. So, yeah, guess those ethics changed.
Hopefully he was never a client.
As for Ezri, I was thinking more Starfleet personnel, not no sex. But, for me, that's s big strong line I cannot entertain crossing.
Correct. I am no longer married. Ex- and I are now friends and co-parents.
I don't see this as a "must". There might be other people qualified to be counselors on the station who a significant other of Ezri's could see.
That ethical rule would be most binding on Sisko, who couldn't date anyone who reported to him, which was just about everybody. Maybe the civilians working in the shops would be fair game - but faced with this problem the writers brought in Kassidy from outside.
I'd have Section 31 in one episode and then never encountered or mentioned again. Just a paranoid mystery forever, lurking in the shadows.
That's what they did to the DTI.
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