At least with SNW, he was a new character. DISCO dropped the ball (I know, I know, into the buffer) at any attempts to flesh out characters beyond the core 5 or so. Sudden backstory is always a death sentence.
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world [Need to know more intensifies]
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Beep dirty to me
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Of course Bones is chatting up Alice
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world The satire wasn't meant to be used as a template
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world They did it! They said the thing!
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world T'Pol gets infamous
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world It's a mostly multi-universal constant
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Captain Stanley looking like Tom Servo
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world It's time for another "Good Idea, Bad Idea"
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Don't ask me about my business, Quark.
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Soon enough, she'll be invited to the poker games
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world For the Horde!
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world ♪ And that's the way you do it! ♪
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Also a great courtroom drama with guest star Riker
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world In a triple-feature including Die Hard and The Long Kiss Goodnight
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world "I'm always frank and earnest with women. Uh, in New York I'm Frank, and Chicago I'm Ernest."
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world "First, I am proud to say that I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't swear. Oh shit, I do smoke and drink."
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world ♪ I... wanna rock n roll all niiight, and lacerate some ensigns! ♪
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world "I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working."
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world "Reroute power to the deflector dish and modify to emit an inverse tachyon pulse"

Upon closer inspection, O'Brien seems to have broken his wrist and lost his right thumb. Suffering checks out.