10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Bless. Aside from being the Most Important Person in Starfleet History, Chief Miles Edward O'Brien has a right tough time when it comes to DS9. There must have been occasions when he thought about requesting a transfer to go back and stand in the transporter room of the Enterprise-D.

Evidently a talented engineer, O'Brien is regularly tortured not only by his storylines but apparently by the fact he's either the only engineer on DS9 or the only one who actually knows what he's doing.

Take Babel for example. O'Brien is running around attempting to fix multiple system failures which inadvertently leads to the release of the aphasia virus. Luckily everyone recovers from their bout of story-borne illness, though Sisko is still narked off with the fact that his replicated coffee is still not right. 

Surely there is another engineer around to help?  

When Miles is away during The Passenger and Move Along Home in season one, the references to his absence tend to lean on the concerned side. For the previous six years O'Brien had mainly been responsible for the USS Enterprise's transporters and not the whole engineering compliment of a space station. Either his teams are woefully untrained on maintenance or the station should be written off as a health and safety hazard in every respect. 

Deep Space Nine does right this wrong the further along we go with shining examples of engineers perhaps exemplified by the ill-fated Crewman Muniz in season five's The Ship, although even by the time of The Bar Association it's clear O'Brien like to be busy rather than twiddling his thumbs in the transporter room.