You don't know me very well, Constable, but I've been in service to the Federation—Starfleet—all my adult life. No one has ever questioned my loyalty. No one in my entire life has ever had cause to ask, “Miles O'Brien, are you a criminal?” I took an oath to defend the Federation and what it stands for. I don't steal from them. I don't lie to them. I'm no angel, but I try to live every day as the best human being I know how to be. I need my little girl to wake up in the morning and look up at me and see a man she can respect. Until now, she always could.
Being accused of a crime is not a disgrace, Chief. Some of the great figures of history have shared the honor with you.
I didn't figure on dying a martyr.
Not all of them were martyrs; not all of them died. Some of them were just innocent men, like you.
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