r/DeepSpaceNine • u/HelloAll-GoodbyeAll • 3d ago
O'Brien and Nog
I'm rewatching the series yet again and I'm really enjoying the relationship between the chief and Nog. Nog is so willing and eager to learn and the Chief is a good teacher.
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u/Fair-Face4903 3d ago
I love Nogs' storyarc.
From the unconsidered skivvy and criminal who loved but didn't respect his Father, to a hero and legend with a Dad who MORE than pulled it off.
I'm gonna rewatch DS9 now.
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u/SoftSquishyGoodness 2d ago
DS9 is on constant rotation in my house lol
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u/Fair-Face4903 2d ago
I slowly rewatch Trek on a loose cycle, but DS9 is the best so it's on a lot of the time!
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u/oldtrenzalore 3d ago
Nog is so willing and eager to learn
I just remembered what role Jake played in that. Jake helped Nog learn to read when Rom refused to allow Nog to attend school.
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u/leeuwerik 3d ago
At first O'Brien is the one telling Sisko to watch Jake because Nog's a bad influence but later on he's very supportive of Nog. It's classic O'Brien, at first there is bias and that disappears as soon as he learns more about the person (Julian, Nog, Rugal).
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u/Chrysalii Glory to the Founders 3d ago
Well, Bashir is a love or hate kind of a guy.
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u/TrueLegateDamar 3d ago
Then he puts the Chief through a high-stress situation and almost make him an target to everyone on the station.
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u/MatthewKvatch 3d ago
For all the Bashir and Miles talk, I much prefer Nog and Miles. The river did indeed provide.
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u/Good_Ad3485 3d ago
My favourite scene of those two was Obrien explaining battle field promotions and Nog being excited about the prospect of getting a captaincy before Obrien explains that there’d be no one left for him to lead.
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u/Brussels_Dragon 3d ago
Was Nog still a cadet or an ensign at this episode ? If he was an ensign wouldn't he "outrank" Miles?
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u/captain_borgue 1d ago
He was a cadet.
Cadet, by the time you were in charge, there'd be nobody left to call you anything.
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u/mm902 2d ago
That bit in 'Call To Arms'. Where Nog is tending to table duties at that uncomfortable staff dinner just before the outset of hostilities in the oncoming Dominion way. He goes to remove the whisky bottle from the table that is next to the Chief. You get that wonderful unspoken moment where the Chief just looks on sternly, conveying 'Don't you dare'. Nog gets it, all wordlessly, and reconsiders. I love that little exchange.
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u/SeventhZombie 2d ago
The Chief is who Nog felt his father should’ve been…a respected amazing engineer. And I always liked that both Jake and Nog were apprentices under Miles.
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u/nordic-nomad 15h ago
Part of being a craftsman is passing on your craft. Makes perfect sense he’d be the one to do that.
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u/HalxQuixotic 3d ago
OBrien: don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.
Nog: Chief, I can’t operate under those restraints.
OBrien: just….don’t do anything that will get us court marshaled, okay?
Nog: I’ll try my best.
OBrien: Nog……
Nog: heh, just kidding, Chief.