Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
Starship Down (1995)
Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien
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Quotes
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[O'Brien has advised Worf earlier to go a little easier on the Engineering personnel]
Lt. Commander Worf : How long will the repairs take?
Stevens : Sixteen hours.
Chief O'Brien : Oh, you can do it in twelve.
Stevens : Twelve. Sure. No problem.
[walks off a little less enthusiastic]
Chief O'Brien : [to Worf] See? You can give 'em a little slack; but you can't take your hands off the reins.
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Chief O'Brien : The Captain's gotten us out of tougher spots than this. Last year, when the Romulans tried to invade the Founders' homeworld, we went up against a dozen Jem'Hadar ships.
Stevens : I know, Chief, uh... you've told me the story.
Chief O'Brien : Oh, yeah? Well, unless you want to hear it again, you'd better get down to the torpedo bay and start working on those probes.
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Stevens : I think we should route the generator output through the secondary power grid.
Muñiz : We'll have to recalibrate the ODN manifold.
Stevens : That'll overload the whole system. What a mess.
Muñiz : Nah, we'll worry about that tomorrow.
Stevens : Yeah, it's easy for you to say. It's your day off.
Chief O'Brien : Don't count on it.
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Chief O'Brien : Let them do what they're good at. And give them a little encouragement now and then.