I never pass up a chance to comment on how heartbreakingly sad Miles looks in this scene with Riker.
Riker-O'Brien disagreement?
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I never pass up a chance to comment on how heartbreakingly sad Miles looks in this scene with Riker.
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.
Well it's the safest way
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 SiskoO'Brien was already on DS9 by then, so he couldn't have been. I've always thought of it as Tom just trying to get rid of O'Brien, as O'Brien knows WILL Riker pretty well and might have been able to tell the difference between the two before it was revealed.
ETA: Or fine, go read the FAQ. Guess I've never read it either
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.
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.
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
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.
It was chaff, pure and simple.
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.
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