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Miles O'Brien Played By: Colm Meany Rank: Chief petty officer, senior chief specialist Current assignment: Chief of operations, Deep Space Nine Full Name: Miles Edward O'Brien Year of birth: September, 2328 Place of birth: Killarney, Ireland, Earth Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Brien; widowed father remarried Marital status: Married Keiko Ishikawa in 2367 in Ten-Forward, U.S.S. Enterprise Children: One daughter, Molly, born 2368; a son, Kirayoshi, born 2373 Security clearance: Level 1 Starfleet Career Summary 2346 -- Enlisted as a non-commissioned officer in Starfleet 2347 -- As young crewman posted to NCC-57295 U.S.S. Rutledge under Capt. Ben Maxwell, was decorated after Setlik III and re-assigned by Maxwell as a bridge tactical officer 2364 -- After serving on two more ships in the last two years, transferred to new U.S.S. Enterprise under Captain Jean-Luc Picard as relief flight control officer in command duty division and later as security in operations division 2365 -- Re-assigned at chief petty officer rank to Enterprise transporter chief, usually posted in Transporter Room 3 2369 -- Accepts offer as chief of operations at Deep Space Nine, onetime Cardassian mining station, under Cmdr. Ben Sisko By mid-2373, had been decorated at least 16 times for over 238 career engagements The curly-headed Miles Edward O'Brien, who would become DS9's first Starfleet chief of operations as the latest chapter in a hard-working career, was born with a deep pride in his Irish ancestry, traced back to medieval King Brian Boru and 1902 American labor martyr Sean Aloysius O'Brien. The family, which also included two brothers, was living near a small town on Earth - most probably in Ireland - by the time he was of age, and his mother cooked unreplicated, meat-and-potatoes meals. He was an ordinary child, getting a disciplinary swat from his father now and then and giving substitute teachers a rough time. He once owned a pup pesky for attention when locked up - yet peaceful by nature, timid for the life of even a mosquito. He also enjoyed building subspace transceiver models, along with ships in bottles, but actually scored in the lower third of his age group for mechanical aptitude. O'Brien joined Starfleet as an impulsive act two days before he was supposed to leave for the unwanted Aldebaran Music Academy to play cello, as his father had always wished. The elder O'Brien - who'd made him practice every day and sent in his recorded audition - was furious, but calmed down and later accepted his son's choice proudly. Even so, O'Brien got to be quite good at the cello, and has kept up his public playing; one of his favorite composers is Minezaki. In later life, his mother died in 2368, and his father remarried in the spring of 2370 to a woman his son had not yet met by later that year. O'Brien's "promotion" and move to DS9 in 2369 as chief operations officer - the equivalent of chief engineer - was only reluctantly supported by Keiko, and the O'Briens early on were marked by gossip that Keiko was extremely unhappy; they had had squabbles but have worked through them all and love each other and their children very much. Actually, O'Brien has offered to transfer at least twice - early on, and again when then-Vedek Winn attacked Keiko's secular school, but she turned him down and stood her ground. In 2369 a local incident thrust him into a role in a Bajoran village's ritual sirah but he was true to his wife and his down-to-earth nature there, as well as when a female Cardassian engineer mistook his irritation for flirting later. As a parent he loves reading to Molly and recommended Sisko separate Nog's influence from Jake, whom he also tutored in mechanics at his father's request. SOURCE: STAR TREK CONTINUUM |
