It is surprising how much PTSD he has for someone who’s just supposed to fix the ship
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Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
I’d contend that the O’Brien one needs to be changed slightly.
O’Brien foolishly believes there is something which cannot be taken from him. It is taken away from him while forcing him to endure incomprehensible levels of psychological and emotional torment.
There’s a post I saw ages ago which said a lot of O’Brien episodes can also be summarized as “Watch the Irishman suffer” and that has never really left my brain. Just living there rent free.
z00s@lemmy.world 11 months ago
JWBananas@startrek.website 11 months ago
That’s why he’s so good at fixing things. He can’t fix himself, so he puts all his effort into fixing everything around him instead.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 11 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Both of them have PTSD because of Cardassians. Shaxs and O’Brien should do group therapy.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, this comment hit a little too close to home.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like every good Irishman, he projects.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 months ago
I always love the Watch the Irishman Suffer episodes.
I would also personally modify the Quark one, because sometimes they show his (repressed) compassionate side.
Jesus_666@feddit.de 11 months ago
And sometimes he takes the dignity of everyone else down along with his own.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah he’s definitely shown to have a soft spot, it’s just that he views it as a moral failing, and not a redeeming characteristic
Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
Very fair point. It’s rare but it does exist somewhere under all of that makeu- I mean flesh.