Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Starship Down (1995)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Chief O'Brien : Let them do what they're good at. And give them a little encouragement now and then.