“Do You Want To See An Elderly Miles O’Brien?”

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s Colm Meaney has no plans to return to Star Trek as Chief Miles O’Brien. Meaney originated O’Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the Irish engineer truly came into his own on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as part of the crew led by Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). Between TNG and DS9, Meaney played O’Brien in 225 episodes, the most of any Star Trek actor except for Michael Dorn’s Worf.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette interviewed Colm Meaney about his new film Duchess and asked the venerable Irish actor if he wants to reprise Miles O’Brien in Star Trek on Paramount+. While Meaney believes one should “never say never,” Colm shot down the idea of coming back as “an elderly Miles O’Brien.” Read Meaney’s quote below:

I think seven years in a space suit was enough, you know? I’m often asked that question, and you never say never, of course, but first of all, I wouldn’t fit in it anymore [Laughs] and… I remember people 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 don’t know. It’s certainly not at the top of my agenda of things I’d like to do at the moment.

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Source: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Cast

Avery Brooks , Rene Auberjonois , Cirroc Lofton , Colm Meaney , Armin Shimerman , Alexander Siddig , Nana Visitor , Michael Dorn , Nicole de Boer , Terry Farrell , Andrew Robinson

Seasons

7

Writers

Michael Piller , Ira Steven Behr , Ronald D. Moore

Showrunner

Michael Piller , Ira Steven Behr

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