Colm Meaney on his character being tortured.

[TheDoran144]

2 people are victims of torture!!!

[thetshirtblog]

That girl sounds hot

[douro20]

His birth name is Colm Ó Maonaigh

[GrunGrauWeiss]

he's irish! of course the empire- uh, I mean federation- treated him like shit.

[cromicus]

questioner was the female comic book store guy

[SidNightWalker]

O'Brien is the everyman of both TNG and DS9...that's why he got srcrewed over so much, he was the most vulnerable, on the surface.But of course in reality the guy was not one you wanted to screw with.

[komodosp]

That girl sounds hot...

[ZukosHotLikeLightnin]

The one who disliked this is OBVS Cardassian

[mbenzsl2000]

one of the best all around characters in star trek 

[noblescott]

Ah, indeed, I shall use this rejoinder when caught in a similar situation. "nonetheless"...

[BanjoOz]

He hadn't THOUGHT about that?! He got tortured/beaten/shot/mind-wipe­d every fifth episode or something!

[frantic1971]

Colm Meaney and the character of Miles O'Brien was one of the best in TNG and also DS9. I don't know if it was Meaney's acting ability or the way the character was written, but he always seemed to be the most "real" of the ST characters--a guy you would like to have a drink with at the nearby bar or go out hunting with. He was an earthy yet practical man and not like the wusses the other characters were. A strong Irish guy. Go Irish!

[alextoob1]

-facepalm at audience member trying to sound super smart referencing Kafka-

[TheSonicGod]

One thing that really confused me with Colm's character was that in the first seasons of Star Trek TNG, he wore the rank of Lieutenant, and was even addressed as such, but later on, he was always referred to as "Chief," and eventually wore the rank insignia of Senior Chief Petty Officer... so... suddenly... demotion? What?

[kakashi76767]

@TheSonicGod its just a show, maybe you should just relax!

[mbenzsl2000]

@TheSonicGod they must have made a mistake or something. He was always a non-comm. unless the prop they used to denote his rank just looked like that of a 1st Lt.

[TheSonicGod]

@mbenzsl2000 They were never clear on his rank, actually, and even in Star Trek TNG in early episodes, he was referred to as Lieutenant. I think it was a mistake.

[CaptainJDax]

Ah, yes, the "O'Brien must suffer" episodes. Love Colm Meaney!

[Alorrana]

the chief rocks !!

[GeneralGrin]

i made a compilation of all of O'Brien's misfortunes

watch?v=3u2PqLV7Fkg

[darkdj08]

omg he actually stutters i thought it was a charichter trait thing.

ands its been almost 6 months since i learnt anything new about trek lol

[StephenColbertRulz]

oh yes, i LOVE being treated like s#$t...roflmao

[Dilandau3000]

I think there are two reasons that O'Brien got the short end of the stick so often:

1. He was the most down-to-earth, most "regular guy" character on the show. The audience could relate to him, so they would respond more if you put him in danger than some other characters.

2. Colm Meaney is such as awesome actor that they knew he could pull it off.

But almost every show had a character that took all the punches: LaForge, O'Brien, Kim, and Mayweather. Can't think of one for TOS though.

[SOLIDSNAKEDQ]

lol TOS had a whole army of dudes who got "the short end" ... the redshirts

[Dilandau3000]

True, that's why I said there was not one specific character. :)

[Timerider]

Chekov it was almost always Chekov,

Ever wonder why Russians are portrayed as gloomy?

BECAUSE they are..

:)

[StephenColbertRulz]

TOS had plenty of characters takin' the hits: they were called random guys with no lines dressed in what now? RED SHIRTS? rofl!

[pazios2002]

@StephenColbertRulz I love that scene in the series family guy when krik is picking his away team and the last guy (in a red shirt ofcourse) says "oh crap" LOL

[Bonzai34]

@Dilandau3000 Kirk? :-p

[CaptainJDax]

@Dilandau3000 TOS: The redshirts.

[SmoggyZilla]

@Dilandau3000 Red shirts collectively for TOS

[eaglesgogirl]

@Dilandau3000 usually after they kill/hurt all the 'redshirts' in TOS they go for Spock and repeatedly hrt him. also Trip and Reed get a percentage of being hurt too. maybe more of trip since he dies in the end.

[randomsamno9]

@Dilandau3000 What about spock he had to be stoic all the time to all of McCoys xenophobic slurs.

[OneOfThoseVideoMaker]

@Dilandau3000 Redshirts?

[Maphisto86]

@Dilandau3000

Probably Chekov for the original crew. Definitely in the movies (burned hand, mind controlling parasite in the ear, big fall, getting lost in a national park, etc).

[erichmmiii]

@Dilandau3000 don't forget worf

[Mrblancnoir]

@Dilandau3000 Pavel Chekov my good sir. He was the original beat up guy.

[wijcik]

@Mrblancnoir Yep. You always knew it was serious when Chekov screamed. 

[tallguy1618]

@Dilandau3000 red shirts

[xxalisonleaxx]

fuckin yeahhhhhhh!

gewaaan ireland

he's deadly in the snapper & the van luv it =)

[CooganMusic]

Did you see the DS9 episode when he shouted AHH BOLLOCKS! (ala The Snapper)

Check out the DVD version of Time's Orphan (1998)

[skids1998]

The girl who asked that question definately sounded like she'd be of a mind to "love you long time". Irishmen and asian girls...weird

[hcvang]

sounds german to me, not asian.

[The8thDOCTOR]

first Irish man wearing hair extensions.

f

[takerdust]

Off top of my head I can think of O'brien's ordeals, and I don't remember much about TNG. First is Cardassia/Fed War at Setlick 3, alien invader in his body on Enterprise, trial on Cardassia, infected by the Harvesters, his decades-long mental prison sentence, kidnapped and duplicate made of him, being shot by the Trill Verad, beaten up several times by Jem Hadar, shifting through time, his wife taken over by a Pah Wraith, his daughter aging 10+ years in mere seconds. Whew, probably more too

[toddsmitts]

Colm was supposed to be a regular on the new series "Life on Mars", but after the pilot, they replaced him with Harvey Keitel. Too bad.

[Regislovato]

His character dislocated his shoulder quite often, trying to kayak. Pure comedic Genius!

[EyeOnTheTV]

during enterprise i would count each time archer would get punched in the face

[pokerpicasso]

I can't remember which audio commentary, but one of the writers described the annual "O'Brian Suffers" episode as something of a tradition.

No respect indeed. Good thing they had such an awesome actor to handle it.

[Foxstab]

Colm rules!

[EcLipsE1982Fat]

I guess some people are just made to suffer. But it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[danmoore5000]

O'Brien was a good character but there were too many episodes where he gets dumped on.

[t5y665yrty56]

well he was enlisted like yeoman rand so yeah the working stiffs always get shut out

[danmoore5000]

Yes, I've heard them give that explanation, but I don't think it's a very good excuse.

If you don't have another character with a daughter who can get caught in a time whatever and be aged 20 years then write something else. Quit using that tired excuse for why something bad is happening to O'Brien yet again.

[benjrh]

He is a good actor, and a great character. But he looks kinda out of it in this video.

He's sick?

[Muldfeld]

Thanks for uploading this. There's so very little of him on the DVD sets.

[mcship]

oh i love being treaded like shit  LOL

[NicktheIrishman]

YAY for two reasons:

1.Colm is great!

2.This was added on me birthday

[EnkiduPDX]

"You know, again, I hadn't thought of that..." I think every trek actor utters these words when being asked questions at a convention.

[DEP717]

For some reason they were often a meany to Meany

[jsonitsac]

I think the fact that O'Brien was also an NCO and a combat veteran also contributed to the fact that he got the rougher jobs. He's a man who's worked the ranks in starfleet from the very bottom up, so he'd be used to those sorts of things.

[Smiley8569]

Haha "yes I love being treated like shit"

[Zebonka]

Harry Kim had it a lot worse. Killed or wounded in every episode, I think.

[MadamGul]

Yes, I believe Kenny from the animation South Park was based on his character.

[Muldfeld]

Yeah, but he deserved it. Awful awful character.

[DPsychoS]

cant agree with you, problem iwht O'Brien was he was wasted on TNG because he was only a secondary character and DS9 gave the writers and Colm Meany an opportunity to flesh him and his family out more.

[Foxstab]

He should've become as great as Scotty, sadly, the writers didn't have respect.

[Muldfeld]

Oh, no. I didn't mean that O'Brien was a bad character; he's fantastic. I meant that Harry Kim was a bad character.

[Tranchera]

They just like making O'Brien say "MOIDER".