Colm Meaney on his character being tortured.
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@DPsychoS red shirts are the ones for TOS
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2 people are victims of torture!!!
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@Dilandau3000 red shirts
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That girl sounds hot
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@Mrblancnoir Yep. You always knew it was serious when Chekov screamed.
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@Dilandau3000 Pavel Chekov my good sir. He was the original beat up guy.
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@Dilandau3000 don't forget worf
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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).
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His birth name is Colm Ó Maonaigh
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he's irish! of course the empire- uh, I mean federation- treated him like shit.
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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.
Dilandau3000 2 years ago 50
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.
DPsychoS 3 years ago 28