MadDogMike posted:

At least it's not for the traditional reasons for Irish suffering, the English captain on TNG gets randomly screwed with too, so the universe isn't completely biased. Though at least when Picard gets gaslit into a decades-long experience in minutes he gets to have a family and learn playing the flute, O'brien didn't get any valuable life lessons (insert your own dirty "learned to play the flute from his cellmate" jokes here).