My poor Worf.
Gotta be the GOAT character in all of Trek. The roar pierced my soul.
DS9 has now passed TNG in my heart.
Is this the community for this post?
EDIT: wow guys. I meant E26. 24 episode format got my head mashed. Times Orphan is awful. I meant the finale! (No spoilers!)
Original post title for reference was “ First time DS9… just finished S6E24” — when I meant to reference Tears of the Prophets.
The episode showed that Molly, in just a few days was already rehabilitating. I already said, “talking, drawing, wanting her hair brushed”
O’Brien took the news of Molly needing to go to a distant rehabilitation center as a non-starter. He could have discussed it with Keiko but he didn’t because to him, leaving ds-9 was not an option.
She freaked out when she had to leave the holodeck just like a child would throw a tantrum leaving a zoo. She wouldn’t have instantly fashioned a weapon and attacked the stranger who approached her unless she had been traumatized by predators in her environment.
I explained the selfish reasons already. Leaving DS9 to take their child to care would be the first priority for normal caring parents. Only narcissists would put their career first. Only someone evil would abandon their child to certain painful death because their child wasn’t happy at the moment.
Go watch Cast Away. Living alone without regular food, water, shelter and basic medical care isn’t the paradise you imagine. O’Brien had been to enough worlds to know what he was sending his daughter into.