# Miles O'Brien's position on Deep Space Nine. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2014, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649 "2014-02-06T10:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/101 "2014-02-13T11:49:11Z")
O’Brien also watched his future self die, and ended up dying himself and getting REPLACED by another self in that same episode. I often forget that the O’Brien we ended the series with, was not the same one who started the series. I forgot about the Changeling impersonation in “Homefront/Paradise Lost”. (One of those episodes in the two parter.) That was a good scene. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/102 "2014-02-13T13:27:45Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > When you have a crew of seven, that makes sense. When you have a crew of over a thousand, not so much. > > So long as there are experienced and qualified Operations (or even Engineering) specialists aboard, the Chief Medical Officer belongs in Sickbay, not on the bridge, especially in a dangerous tactical situation. > > On _ **TOS** _, the chain of command was Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and (despite revisionist attempts to prove otherwise) Sulu (not Uhura). The only time McCoy had anything remotely like a Command function was in “Court Martial,” and then only because he was the senior officer present. His only orders were to place Spock under arrest and turn the ship around to retrieve the Captain. In the TOS episode “Catspaw” Lt DeSalle got to sit in the captain’s chair when the top four were imprisoned on the planet. He was making progress in removing the force field when one of the aliens changed sides and removed. > **[DeSalle](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/DeSalle)** > > Lieutenant DeSalle was a Human male of French descent. He served as a Starfleet officer in the mid-23rd century. He was assigned aboard the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk during the 2260s. (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos") In 2267, DeSalle... ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/103 "2014-02-13T14:37:38Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > In the TOS episode “Catspaw” Lt DeSalle got to sit in the captain’s chair when the top four were imprisoned on the planet. He was making progress in removing the force field when one of the aliens changed sides and removed. > > [DeSalle | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/DeSalle) His was a good character. I didn’t realized he was in as many episodes as he was, but I wish his had been a regular character. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/104 "2014-02-13T15:07:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > His was a good character. I didn’t realized he was in as many episodes as he was, but I wish his had been a regular character. I think Mr. Leslie was the background character who was on screen almost constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/105 "2014-02-13T16:23:10Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Actually it was Bashir who was impersonated by a Changeling… Yes - in fact, if I remember the timing of his kidnapping and then return, it was actually the imposter Dr. Bashir who delivered the O’Briens’ second child, wasn’t it? > [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > … I think I’d rather see Miles in the command chair than Deanna. I tend to agree, certainly until Troi passed the starship-command course. After that, it’d be a closer call. Troi showed in “Face of the Enemy,” for instance, that she could be both smart and tough: [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Face\_of\_the\_Enemy\_(episode)](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Face_of_the_Enemy_(episode)). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/106 "2014-02-13T18:17:40Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I think Mr. Leslie was the background character who was on screen almost constantly. Leslie was played by Eddie Paskey, who was also William Shatner’s stand-in. There are some interesting facts about him **here:** > **[Eddie Paskey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Paskey)** > > Edward J. Paskey (August 20, 1939 – August 17, 2021) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Lieutenant Leslie on the television series Star Trek from 1966 to 1968. > Paskey was born in a small farming town in Delaware but was raised in California. He moved with his family to Santa Monica in 1952. In his youth he was immersed in automobiles by working at his father's garage, and developed an interest in hot rods from a young age. His first car was a 1941 Ford coupe but was later repla... ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/107 "2014-02-13T22:44:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Leslie was played by Eddie Paskey, who was also William Shatner’s stand-in. There are some interesting facts about him **here:** > > [Eddie Paskey - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Paskey) It is obviously he in some parts of the fight with Kahn. Did the digitization thing cover that up? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/108 "2014-02-13T22:45:40Z")
On my remastered version, everytime the scene calls for a Kirk stunt double, he now shows as a Gorn. It’s GREEN! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649/109 "2014-02-14T04:20:53Z")
I don’t recall if Changeling Bashir delivered the O’Brien baby, but he _definitely_ performed brain surgery on Sisko in the episode when he had visions from the Prophets. That was the debut of the “First Contact” uniforms for DS9, and when the real Bashir is seen in the Dominion prison camp, he’s wearing the older style. A Changeling infiltrator performed brain surgery on Captain Sisko. THERE’S a frightening thought. I’d feel safer if he’d helped Kira deliver the baby. “Yeah, it’s easy; you just catch.” --Tommy Lee Jones, “Men in Black” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miles-obriens-position-on-deep-space-nine/680649.md?page=5)