Miles O'Brien quotes from Deep Space Nine

I am First Omet'iklan, and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, victory is life.

Victory is life.

Weyoun

Such a delightful people.

Miles O'Brien

I am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. I am very much alive and I intend to stay that way.

Benjamin Sisko

Amen!

Miles O'Brien

It's funny. I've served on half a dozen different ships and none of them have had cloaking devices except the Defiant. Now that we're not using it, I feel naked.

Worf

It is disconcerting, to say the least.

Benjamin Sisko

Gentlemen, I feel the same breeze you do.

Miles O'Brien

What are you smiling at?

Jadzia Dax

I don't know. I guess it's just being in the same room as so many naked men.

Miles O'Brien

So, let me get this straight: all we have to do is get past an enemy fleet, avoid a tachyon detection grid, beam into the middle of Klingon headquarters and avoid the Brotherhood of the Sword long enough to set these things up and activate them in front of Gowron?

Worf

If we succeed, there will be many songs sung in our honor.

Miles O'Brien

Let's hope we're there to hear them.

Rom

I won't even tell them my name.

Miles O'Brien

Rom, everyone on the station knows your name.

Rom

Well... I won't confirm it.

Miles O'Brien

Don't take it personally, Worf.

Julian Bashir

I... rather like the way you smell.

O'Brien

Yeah, sort of... earthy, peaty aroma.

Bashir

With a touch of... lilac.

Odo

Mr. Worf.

Worf

They are Klingons. And, it is a long story.

O'Brien

What happened? Genetic engineering?

Bashir

A viral mutation?

Worf

We do not discuss it with outsiders!

Julian Bashir

The truth is, I'm a fraud.

Miles O'Brien

You're not a fraud. I don't care how many enhancements your parents had done. Genetic recoding can't give you ambition or a personality or compassion or any of the things that make a person truly human.

Julian Bashir

So, I guess it's your game again.

Miles O'Brien

What's that? Five in a row?

Julian Bashir

At least.

Miles O'Brien

Wait a minute. You haven't been letting me win, have you?

Julian Bashir

What makes you think that?

Miles O'Brien

You said your hand-eye coordination had been genetically enhanced.

Julian Bashir

Well, maybe I have been letting you win, a little bit.

Miles O'Brien

I don't believe it. I don't need you to patronize me. I can play at your level.

Julian Bashir

I never said you couldn't.

Miles O'Brien

Well, play then. Really play!

Miles O'Brien

Alright, from now on, you play from over here,

Miles O'Brien

I play from up here,

Miles O'Brien

If that doesn't work, we'll try a blindfold.

Rom

“Latinum lasts longer than lust.” Rule of Acquisition 229.

O'Brien

Maybe, but lust can be a lot more fun.

Miles O'Brien

Oh, no.

Benjamin Sisko

What?

Miles O'Brien

I don't believe it!

Benjamin Sisko

What?

Miles O'Brien

I tore my pants.

Benjamin Sisko

[Laughing] You tore your pants?

Miles O'Brien

Yeah, I tore my pants. [Laughing] I guess, I guess I'm really in trouble now, huh?

Benjamin Sisko

And when they've reached this point, we'll have them in a crossfire.

They won't have a chance.

That is the point. In case you've forgotten, we're in a war.

Miles O'Brien

There are rules, Garak, even in a war.

Correction. Humans have rules in war. Rules that tend to make victory a little harder to achieve, in my opinion.

So we just shoot them down?

They wouldn't hesitate if the situation was reversed.

Nog

But we're not the Jem'Hadar. It is our duty to—

Benjamin Sisko

This isn't a vote. The decision's mine. And Mister Garak is right. We are at war. Given the choice between us or them, there is no choice. Let's move out.

Jadzia Dax

Are you two ever gonna be finished?

Nog

Just a few more minutes, Commander.

Chief O'Brien

That's 'Captain'. It's an old naval tradition. Whoever's in command of a ship, regardless of rank, is referred to as 'Captain.'

Nog

You mean if I had to take command, I would be called 'Captain,' too?

Chief O'Brien

Cadet, by the time you took command, there'd be nobody left to call you anything.

Nog

Can you believe it? They made me an ensign.

Miles O'Brien

I didn't realize things were going so bad.

Nog

Scary, isn't it?

Miles O'Brien

"Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volley'd and thunder'd..."

Julian Bashir

"Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred."

Nog

Whatever it is you're quoting, I wish you'd stop!

Uh, Chief? How does that poem end?

O'Brien

You don't want to know.

Julian Bashir

There's nothing more romantic than a wedding on DS9 in the springtime.

Miles O'Brien

When the neutrinos are in bloom.