"Here, I've a half dozen new problems every day. This station needs me."

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"Here, I've a half dozen new problems every day. This station needs me."

DS9 s4e16 “Bar Association” with TNG s3e11 “The Hunted,” s4e11 “Data’s Day,” and a frame from Chief O’Brien at Work

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I like to think that transporters technicians are usually slacking off in their break room and have transporter scripts to automatically beam them to the transporter room whenever the bridge crew calls or walks towards it.

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That’s the transporter technician who transferred from IT department.

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Transporter clone? Lemme try turning it off and on again…

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I hope you had a backup of that transporter buffer, otherwise… Nope.

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I told my agentic AI ship’s computer to back up the database the pattern buffer, but it deleted prod ejected the warp core instead

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One man’s lazy is another man’s efficiency.

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A transporter chief would never use a transporter. He would simply use the true nature of the transporter to clone himself and let his clone do the work.

All those fuckups are just the clone trying to stay alive by delaying the inevitable disintegration

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I’d always thought that when there is downtime, the crew in the transporter rooms are regularly running diagnostics and maintenance. Like if they’re at warp or otherwise traveling between destinations they’ll be checked the configurations and replacing any components due for maintenance.

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What’s the justification of having super engineer and war hero O’Brien just hanging out in the transporter room all day?

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He’s too OP. Gotta reign him in a bit or there’d be nothing for the others to do.

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