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I'm not sure if Suffering O'Brien is necessarily the best choice for this meme, because it kinda implies that the moment things start looking up, a simulated lifetime of prison trauma is waiting around the next corner...
He also has a loving wife and two kids. He loves his job (most days) and seems genuinely fulfilled in life.
Yeah that's likely because DS9 is, at its core, an episodic series. If my life mostly reset every Monday, that would make things quite a bit more tolerable.
Sunday nights would certainly become interesting if everyone knew things go back to 1 on Monday.
Everyone can now participate in Sunday Funday: The Purge Edition.
He is the poster child for that exact reason. He keeps getting the shit end of the stick... but he keeps going because he has an awesome support system that makes everything better.
It is an eternal meme. A trope. The Bibble has Job. Star Trek has Miles. Job lost his family and children to gamblor and miles loses them to the pah wraiths and a time hole. The parallelograms are there, it's in revelations people.
That feels about right.
Despite everything that has happened, O'Brien has worked through it with counseling and the support of his family and friends. Something to aspire to if you get your fair share of hardships too.
Is the greatest advancement in Star Trek FTL travel? Teleporters? Replicators? No, it's that their therapists are available, affordable, and effective.