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Well, Sir, there is one very simple answer
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"I don't hate you, universe. I just hate what you made me do."
There is a subset of Chief Petty Officers and CPO adjacent people who are Trekkies, and for whom O'Brien's rate and/or rank is... a fountain of disappointment.
Theres no money or pension involved in starfleet. The post scarcity space communism pretty much lets anyone do whatever they like.
Their rank/rate mainly have to do with authority, and it didn't seem like the chief really cared about being in charge. He just cared about making things work.
He was a fine example of an engineers mindset, along with scotty/Geordi/etc. He was also a damn fine solider and tactician, but he didnt like it. He just wanted to keep things humming, and he did it well.
I was watching Rolling With Difficulty, and they had to pass through a portal that you can only enter if you're genuinely despondent. So Dani, the ship's engineer, imagines a world where everything is working and there's nothing left to fix, and she immediately drops through the portal.
It's hilarious because they were fighting a villain whose whole ideology is "entropy is inevitable, stop struggling to live", and he keeps trying to tempt Dani to his side, and he just does not understand her as a person because every time he says "everything is going to rust and fall apart", she says "great, then I'll have more stuff to fix".
Anyway Rolling With Difficulty is basically a Star Trek D&D campaign. They sail the astral sea between planes, seeking out strange new worlds.
That's a pretty rad plot line. I'll check the series out.
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At least Lower Decks gave him the recognition he deserves by naming him "the most important man ever in Starfleet".
I genuinely felt bad for him after all the bullshit the universe threw at him.
He wasn't just a hero, he was a union man!