he made sure ds9 would not function without him being there, so he is constantly needed and not firable.
When they forget about you:
Shax is security. You want Billups.
You got me. Fixed.
I guess I’ll have to actually watch Lower Decks to understand why Shax is always the one trying to eject the core or why typing “lower decks chief engineer” into duckduckgo’s image search mostly returns pictures of Shax.
Shax just really wants to eject the warp core. Just tactical things is all.
The comics Shax’s Best Day during Day of Blood and then Shax’s Worst Day during the following Lore War were so good.
This fallls way outside of ten forward, but the absolute king of polarity reversal in really all of scifi is Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who. Yes it’s very old, but you will literally get at least one polarity reversal per story arc. Honestly he’s probably the progenitor of all polarity reversals.
I’m reversing the polarity, you’re reversing it back again. We’re confusing the polarity!
IIRC, Jon Pertwee didn’t like technobabble, so used “reverse the polarity” as his go-to phrase. Funnily enough, he only says “reverse the polarity of the neutron flow” twice! (The Sea Devils & The Five Doctors).
…of the neutron flow yeah. He just plain reversed polarity in general more times than that. He was a professional polarity wrestler :D
Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?!
Dr. Flox: “The neutrinos are mutating.”
O’Brien is the fifth of four
No O’Brien you fucking up.
he did it one last time, and got nuked in a different universe by trying to be a tyrant.
Why is op making our chief suffer?
Oh wait I get it
I’m suddenly reminded of Chief O’Brien at Work
At work I’m always reminded reminded of chief Obrien at work. Mostly the crushing suffering
To reverse polarity the energy has to pass through a zero state
They’re literally just turning shit off and on again
Scotty: “You’re not supposed to give the secrets away, laddie!”
Kirk: How long until you get this fixed, Scotty?
Scotty: About 4 hours sir, but for you I’ll get it done in 2.
[Scotty pushes 1 button, issue is fixed, he goes and gets hammered]
they’re plugging it in backwards
Trip took reversing the polarity to new heights.
“The tachyon field …” “just fix it”
