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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.