DS9’s Colm Meaney Says If He’d Return To Star Trek: “Do You Want To See An Elderly Miles O’Brien?”

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Summary

Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Colm Meaney has no plan to revert toStar Trekas Chief Miles O’Brien . Meaney originated O’Brien inStar Trek : The Next multiplication , but the Irish engineer truly came into his own onStar Trek : Deep Space Nineas part of the gang led by Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) . BetweenTNGandDS9,Meaney roleplay O’Brien in 225 episode , the most of anyStar Trekactor except for Michael Dorn ’s Worf .

Sci - Fi & Fantasy Gazetteinterviewed Colm Meaney about his new filmDuchessand asked the revered Irish histrion if he want to repeat Miles O’Brien in Star Trek on Paramount+ . While Meaney believes one should"never say never,“Colm shoot down the idea of coming back as"an elderly Miles O’Brien . “Read Meaney ’s citation below :

I think seven age in a blank space suit of clothes was enough , you know ? I ’m often ask that inquiry , and you never say never , of trend , but first of all , I would n’t check in it anymore [ Laughs ] and … I think back mass saying at the time when Voyager got going , ' How many times can you go to the well ? How many times can you revamp this ? '

They successfully did it with Star Trek and they ’re still doing it . Good luck to them … Do you want to see an elderly Miles O’Brien ? I do n’t cognize . It ’s sure enough not at the top of my agenda of thing I ’d like to do at the mo .

Miles O’Brien is " the most crucial piece in Star Trek history , " played by one of its expert histrion , as demonstrate by O’Brien ’s best TNG and DS9 episode .

How Colm Meaney’s Chief O’Brien Can Return To Star Trek

O’Brien doesn’t have to be elderly

There is an leisurely solution for Colm Meaney to lend Chief Miles O’Brien toStar Trekwithout the fear of appearing elderly or meet in his old Starfleet uniform : appearing in one ofStar Trek ’s animated series . Star Trek : Prodigyseason 3 , if it get a replenishment from Netflix , would take place about a decennary afterStar Trek : Deep Space Nineended . Meanwhile , there is a chance Meaney could be one ofStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 ’s surprise Edgar Guest star topology . Either way , an reanimate Chief O’Brien would be a welcomeStar Trekcomeback .

Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 1 , sequence 3 , " Temporal Edict " , declare Chief O’Brien"perhaps the most important person in Starfleet history . "

Another chance forColm Meaney to reprise Chief O’Brienis inStar Trek ’s next serial , Star Trek : Starfleet Academy . Although set afterStar Trek : Discoveryin the thirty-second hundred , Starfleet Academycould lend O’Brien back as a hologram or through other sci - fi means . At the end ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Chief O’Brien returned to Starfleet Academy as an applied science prof . Star Trek : Starfleet Academywould be the idealistic substance to give Chief O’Brien ’s legacy a fresh linguistic context inStar Trekhundreds of years subsequently .