It chronicles his days at work on the Enterprise which are anything but happy. They're even selling a book of all their cartoons...
Anyone read "Chief O'Brian at work"?
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@Savage Dragon please move this to trek literature (if you do keep it in a TV show forum, this still is incorrect. The comic shows O'Brien in his TNG role.)
Those are so funny!!
I wonder if Colm Meaney has seen it, and if so, what he might think of it...
I think it might be fun to print some out and get him to autograph it
I think that O'Brien can be considered more of a DS9 character than a TNG one. Even if the cartoons do feature him on the Enterprise I still think it has relevance in this forum. Unless @hxclespaulplayer wants the thread moved I am happy to leave here in the DS9 forum.
I'd like to think that these cartoons (or most of them, anyway) are the whole reason why he transferred to DS9 in the first place.
Like, his heart must have skipped a beat when "Will" Riker came to the station. Quick, hide Keiko!
"Wait, it was TOM Riker who hijacked the Defiant and kidnapped Kira? Oh, thank God..."
Like, his heart must have skipped a beat when "Will" Riker came to the station. Quick, hide Keiko!
"Wait, it was TOM Riker who hijacked the Defiant and kidnapped Kira? Oh, thank God..."
I read it frequently and some are very funny.
Having said that, I find the general tone a bit too depressing sometimes and that makes me tire of it [he is a loser, Keiko is cheating on him with Riker, nobody knows he is even there most of the time etc] as it ends up the same general schtick over and over.
O'Brien is a DS9 character anyway.
Having said that, I find the general tone a bit too depressing sometimes and that makes me tire of it [he is a loser, Keiko is cheating on him with Riker, nobody knows he is even there most of the time etc] as it ends up the same general schtick over and over.
O'Brien is a DS9 character anyway.
Someone did a while back.
I love Chief O'Brian at Work. Nihilistic humor at its best.
My pet theory: Deep Space Nine is entirely the fantasies of a bored Chief O'Brian stuck in Transporter Room 3. It only happened in O'Brian's mind, including the fuck-with-O'Brian episodes.
My pet theory: Deep Space Nine is entirely the fantasies of a bored Chief O'Brian stuck in Transporter Room 3. It only happened in O'Brian's mind, including the fuck-with-O'Brian episodes.
Yup, I found out about the site from here.
Its funny, but a tad bit depressing. I just got to the one where they declared him dead and had a funeral while no one relieved him for 3 straight shifts. The Riker jokes started out as shock value funny, but are just getting a bit predictable now. But wow, would it *suck* to be THAT guy.... I keep hearing all of Picards dialgue in "Director Bulluck's" voice. You have to read it with that sort of humor in mind, anyways. Either way, I keep clicking on the next one... lol. Are there any other Star Trek themed webcomics? I think I found one a number of years back, but have no idea what or where it is. I think I may have stumbled into an X Files one at one point, too....
http://lacyntrek.weebly.com
Mine. "Colorblind" is a standalone story and "Vulcan Tribble" is a series of comics, but I haven't updated it in a while.
Mine. "Colorblind" is a standalone story and "Vulcan Tribble" is a series of comics, but I haven't updated it in a while.
Well O'Brian was of the lowest caste of UFP humans that could achieve any Star Fleet rank at all, right? A cannon fodder foot soldier who found some salvation in hard work and a bent for engineering. I think it was Q who made it clear "Oh, you were one of the little people weren't you?" (perhaps not an exact quote but close). Most of the rest of Star Fleet being "one per-centers" from the UFP's elite and power classes. At least he wasn't from the greater masses of even lower class Gimmies who had ended up dumped off world to server as miners, technicians, remote station keepers, and such to keep the minority in luxury and plenty while clearing space on Earth for their betters. Miles was at least from a family allowed to remain on Earth.
It escapes me how so many fans will insist that the UFP was some miracle of egalitarianism. The contradictions to that can be found everywhere in each series. The economic and social conditions of the majority in the Klingon Empire are also visible, though similarly glossed over and ignored by many a fan. I'm not convinced the Vulcans were much different either having the same ravenous hunger for energy and raw materials to keep their elites living high and sustaining interstellar fleets to expand, exploit, and protect their holdings.
It escapes me how so many fans will insist that the UFP was some miracle of egalitarianism. The contradictions to that can be found everywhere in each series. The economic and social conditions of the majority in the Klingon Empire are also visible, though similarly glossed over and ignored by many a fan. I'm not convinced the Vulcans were much different either having the same ravenous hunger for energy and raw materials to keep their elites living high and sustaining interstellar fleets to expand, exploit, and protect their holdings.
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I liked them. Pretty much what I imagine mundane life in Next Gen's "utopia" to be like.
I had presumed that transporter technology was still an iffy enough proposition in the TNG period that it made sense to have a trained person there to monitor and override as needed. But then again often enough we'd see Picard stand back there and push the button himself for people (even to whisk Miles away to DS9). For all of his strengths he always struck me as utterly technologically illiterate. More of an academic who parlayed that into a command career after rejecting the family hobby business of viniculture. So by the time of DS9 maybe things were stable enough that the job had become a sinecure and make-work.
