• @Darkard
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    414 months ago

    I think I’m going to have to stop reading these. They are just so depressing.

    • @AceBonobo
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      164 months ago

      I read a lot of these. Here’s my hot take: It’s not real. It’s not canon. This never happened to Miles O’Brien and never will.

      For me, personally, that’s enough to let me enjoy the absurd comedy.

      • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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        114 months ago

        I enjoy it here and there. My big problem is that it’s the same joke almost every time.

      • Flying SquidM
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        84 months ago

        It’s a fictional version of a fictional person. I’m sort of amused when people get upset about it.

          • Flying SquidM
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            14 months ago

            Remember, this is only strip #35 and he’s done over 200. They improve over time.

            • Echo Dot
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              24 months ago

              Can we skip to the good ones then, because so far they’ve all been, ha ha, he’s getting cheated on

    • @qarbone
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      54 months ago

      When the joke is consistently “no one likes you and someone else is having sex with your wife and fathering your child”, it stops feeling like a joke and starts seeming like a cuckold’s idle fantasies.

    • @PenguinMage
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      14 months ago

      O’Brien was a bad ass, he fought those spoon heads. This is just propaganda.

  • @[email protected]
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    304 months ago

    The first 5 panels are nice

    Just a reminder that the one time Worf operated the transporter Picard and Dr Crusher got transported straight to an enemy jail. No wonder O’Brien had to work long hours.

  • @Blue_Morpho
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    184 months ago

    If we take what is shown on DS9 at face value without imagining any other dialog, for every 20 times Miles is going on Holodeck adventures with Julian, he spends one time going on a picnic with his daughter.

    • Flying SquidM
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      84 months ago

      And then there’s the baby he had with Keiko and also Kira who he seems to ignore most of the time.

  • @Blue_Morpho
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    94 months ago

    Wait! I just noticed that Molly was born in 2368 and O’Brien transferred to DS9 in 2369.

    Molly is quite precocious to be talking like that at less than a year old.

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    I really don’t like the addition of cuckoldry into the story line. Twice now it comes up? Fuck that. Why not just name him Jesus? The storyline has about as much to do with Jesus as O’Brien.

    Originally the joke was funny because of the thought of having someone in charge of staring at the transporter room all day was an absurd realization about the Trek universe. But he was a beloved character in every way.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      14 months ago

      Maybe the author is British and really just wants all replicators to only serve O’Brian diseased potatoes but understands that that would be too on the nose.