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Alright y’all, here’s one of the most unintentionally funny scenes in DS9.
In “Family Business” Bashir and O’Brien are trying to pick the lock on Quark’s to retrieve their dartboard, all the while Odo and Sisko are making comments like “This is one of Rom’s special security
locks. I’ve never seen anything so
convoluted” and “Hmm, a tripartite microsealing
mechanism. That’s going to take a
while to get through”.
So those two breaking into the bar and Odo and Sisko being cool with it is amusing enough, but fast forward to season seven’s “Extreme Measures”…
It’s the middle of the night, the bar is closed and O’Brien walks in on Bashir playing darts. O’Brien asks how he got in and Bashir simply replies “The lock’s not that complex”. So back in season three he was just standing there watching O’Brien struggle when he could’ve done it in no time.
That genetically engineered bastard.
It gets funnier when you consider how competitive their relationship was, and that Julian Bashir, best friend and partner in crime to Miles O’Brien, was silently laughing at him the entire time.
He could have brushed off lockpicking skills as some random interest from years back, related to his Bond fantasies too, but instead let his best struggle.
