Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Icarus Factor (1989)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

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Quotes 

• Chief Miles O'Brien : You choose your enemies; you choose your friends. But family - that's in the stars.

• [Riker and O'Brien are seeing Dr. Pulaski and Riker's father in deep embrace] 

  Commander William T. Riker : [surprised]  They know each other.

  Chief Miles O'Brien : No kiddin'. I know her too; but we don't do *that*.

• Chief Miles O'Brien : Those are Klingon painstiks. I once saw one of them used against a two-ton Rectyne monopod. Poor creature jumped five meters at the slightest touch. Finally died from excessive cephalic pressures.

  Wesley Crusher : You mean...?

  Chief Miles O'Brien : That's right. The animal's head exploded like...

  Doctor Pulaski : I think that's enough, Chief O'Brien.