Also, remember that you don't have to be perfect to make progress. Goals require long term work, commitment, and developing new habits. Just because you falter doesn't mean you should give up.
What I like about this is that in Star Trek Adventures, a 1 always counts as two successes.
So, normal difficulty for operating the transporter is 2, but O'Brien is clearly in the transporter room, which reduces the difficulty by 1. We don't know if the ensign started out on a transporter pad, or if the intent was to beam her to one, but under normal circumstances, the highest difficulty for the roll would be 3.
O'Brien has base two dice, and we know he got a 1 on the one the one die in the meme, which is already two successes. The only official stats for O'Brien are in the DS9 Player Characters pdf, and he has 10 Control + 5 Engineering, so if he rolls 15 or less (75% chance) he gets that additional success needed. He also has Focus in Transporters, so on a 5 or less (25% chance) he scores an additional success on top of the first.
Transporter rolls are also aided by the ship, which means the Enterprise D gets to roll one die, and the official Enterprise stats give it a 9 Sensors + 2 Engineering, so it needs to roll an 11 or less (55% chance) to score one success, and ships always roll with Focus, so on a 2 or less (10% chance) to get two successes total.
Also, O'Brien has the Technical Expertise Talent, and whenever he rolls a task aided by the ship's Sensors Attribute, which is the case here, he can re-roll one die including the die that the ship rolled.
Of course, there could be a situation where this particular difficulty was increased by the GM for some reason, but O'Brien should know that before rolling, and could have purchased additional dice with Momentum, or Threat if the Momentum pool was tapped. The likelihood of O'Brien of all characters failing a transporters roll so badly that someone dies is just incredibly small.
All of which is to say that Chief Miles Edward O'Brien murdered that woman.
Garidian. They're a subject species of the Romulan Star Empire, and use similar ships, but theirs are a pale brown/grey with red designs.
One of them showed up in the PIC prequel tie-in novel staring Troi and Riker, and apparently they're in STO now as well.
Do they explain why a hirsute adult man who’s been living alone for nearly a decade has a beard?
No.
Yeah, I'm also not sad that they removed a bit of backstory about a woman being killed causing Worf to revaluate his life and motivations.
Neat!
I am a bit disappointed that these are going to be explicitly non-canon, though.
Okay, but the review seems to neglect mentioning how easy it is to explode? Huge oversight, in my opinion.
Oh, c’mon, why do you have to do Frakes so dirty like that?
I don't know what you mean, I think Frakes did a great job directing those episodes.
Not to mention the augment virus does not account for why the Excalbian recreation of Kahless in “The Savage Curtain” was still a TOS era Klingon.
It really is the most flimsy plot and, as you say, completely unnecessary.
I would have to assume that Number One was arrested fairly quickly after she leaked the information about herself. All things considered, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing Starfleet was willing to just sit on.
The first episode of the season had Spock discussing with Doctor M’Benga the fact that embracing his anger to help him fight the Gorn last season in “All Those Who Wander” broke down his mental conditioning. It’s also been shown in three of four recaps at the beginning of episodes this season. I would assume they’re building towards something.
As for Spock “never” having emotions, I’d suggest rewatching some TOS. His wry enjoyment when Uhura teases him with her song in “Charlie X”, his outburst at seeing Kirk alive at the end of “Amok Time”, and just how ridiculously horny he is in “The Cloud Minders” all come to mind, never mind those instances when he’s affected by some outside force suppressing his conditioning.
Spock's insecurities being the cause for whatever is happening here is my hope as well. It's a funny moment, but it falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny, so I'm hoping Trelene did it or whatever.