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330 "0 SOAVE FANCIULLA" THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE “O soave fanciulla.” A duet from Puccini's the Runabout Volga during a botanical survey mission to Torad IV. opera La Boheme. In 2373, Voyager's Dr. Bashir saved her life, but it was necessary to remove her Emergency Medical Hologram performed “O unborn child and implant it into the body of Kira Nerys. Keiko soave fanciulla” with a holodeck representa and Miles subsequently invited Kira to live with them in their quar tion of Giuseppina Pentangeli, a 22nd-centu- ters so that they could help care for her while she carried their ry diva. (“The Swarm" [VGR]) child to term. (“Body Parts” [DS9]). While Kira carried her child Keiko was captured by an alien entity known as a Pah-wraith O'Brien, Kirayoshi. Born in 2373, son of Starfleet officers Miles who briefly gained control of her mind and body. The Pah-wraith O'Brien and Keiko O'Brien and younger brother to Molly had intended to use Keiko in an elaborate plan to kill the Bajoran O'Brien. Prior to Kirayoshi's birth, Keiko was seriously injured in Prophets. Fortunately, the plan failed, and Keiko was released an accident aboard a runabout. The child survived because of a from the entity. (“The Assignment” [DS9]). In 2373, Kira delivered daring surgical procedure in which Dr. Julian Bashir removed the Kirayoshi O'Brien in a traditional Bajoran birthing ceremony fetal Kirayoshi from his mother's womb and im-planted him into (“The Begotten” [DS9]) the body of Kira Nerys. Kira carried the fetus for the remaining Keiko's first appearance was in “Data's Day” (TNG). She five months of pregnancy, after which he was delivered in a tradi- joined the cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in “A Man Alone tional Bajoran birthing ceremony. (“The Begotten" [DS9]) (DS9). Kirayoshi was bom in “The Begotten” (DS9) but didn’t get a first name until “In Purgatory’s Shadow" (DSS) O'Brien, Michael. The father of Starfleet officer Miles Edward O'Brien. Miles and Keiko considered naming their first child after O’Brien, Keiko. (Rosalind Michael, if it was a boy. (“Disaster” [TNG]). The senior O'Brien had Chao). Starfleet botanist wanted his son, Miles, to become a cello player. When Miles was formerly assigned to the 17, Michael sent a recorded audition of his son's music to the Enterprise-D, later sta- o Aldeberan Music Academy. He was disappointed when Miles tioned at Deep Space 9 £ joined Starfleet instead, but eventually became proud of his son's Born Keiko Ishikawa career, (“Shadowplay” [DS9]). Michael O'Brien became widowed she married fellow crew [4 in 2368 when his wife passed away. He remarried the following member Miles O'Brien in year. Miles O'Brien didn't like the fact that he'd never met his 2367. Their wedding, held sy, father’s new bride. (“Whispers" [DS9]) aboard the Enterprise-D in a A the Ten-Forward Lounge, ww O'Brien, Miles (mirror). (Colm Meany). In was a mixture of Japanese -— the mirror universe, a Terran conscript = and Irish traditions. (“Data's who served on station Terok Nor. O'Brien Day” [TNG]). The words held a theta designation, and in that Picard spoke in the O'Brien A capacity served as a repair technician for sx | wedding ceremony are N few the mining equipment on the station. This almost identical to the cer- b O'Brien helped engineer the escape of L . emony performed by Cap Major Kira Nerys and Dr. Julian Bashir from ~~ tain Kirk in “Balance of I the station in 2370. O'Brien escaped in the Terror” (TOS), a deliberate company of Benjamin Sisko (mirror), and homage by episode writer the two began the difficult fight to regain Ronald D. Moore. Keiko ) human freedom in the mirror universe. Sisko insisted on calling jave birth to a girl, Molly him “Smiley.” (“Crossover” [DS9]). After Benjamin Sisko (mirror) O'Brien, a year later. Molly ’ was killed in 2371, the mirror O'Brien used a reconfigured trans was born in Ten-Forward during a ship-wide systems failure porter to abduct Commander Benjamin Sisko from the alternate Disaster” [TNG]). Keiko was briefly reduced to a child after (our) universe to complete the mirror Sisko's last mission passing through an energy field in 2369. (“Rascals” [TNG)) (“Through the Looking Glass” [DS9]). While in our universe, this Young Keiko was played by Caroline Junko King.) O'Brien also downloaded technical information from the computKeiko accepted a transfer to station Deep Space 9 in 2369 er at Deep Space 9. These data permitted Terrans at Terok Nor to when her husband was assigned there as chief of operations construct a copy of the Starship Defiant. The new Defiant (mirKeiko was appalled at the living accommodations on the station ror) proved a powerful weapon for the Terran resistance but remained there for the sake of her husband's career (“Shattered Mirror” [DS9)) “Emissary” [DS9]). Keiko and her husband visited Earth that same year for her mother's 100th birthday. (“Dax” [DS9]). Asa O'Brien, Miles. (Colm Meaney). Starfleet engineer, chief of oper child, Keiko helped her grandmother with her Japanese brush ations at station Deep Space 9. (“Emissary” [DS9)). O'Brien's painting. It had been the young Keiko's special task to fill the old family resided in Dublin, Ireland, on Earth. (“Homefront” [DS9)) chipped cup that her grandmother, whom she called Obachan His ancestors included noted 20th-century union leader Sean used to clean the brush. (“Violations” [TNG]) Aloysius O'Brien and 11th-century Irish King Brian Boru. (Bar Keiko found adapting to life on the station difficult. She was ~~ Association” [DS9]). Prior to being assigned to Deep Space 9 in dissatisfied by the lack of professional opportunities on the sta- 2369, Miles Edward O'Brien had been operating transporters for tion for a botanist, and was concerned about the lack of educa- some 22 years, the last six of which were spent on the tional facilities for her daughter. Keiko was able to address this Enterprise-D. (“Realm of Fear" [TNG]). As of 2372, he had been last issue when Commander Sisko granted her permission to decorated 15 times by Starfleet Command. (“Rules of establish a schoolroom on the station. ("A Man Alone” [DS9]) Engagement” [DS9)) Keiko operated the school until early 2371, when enrollment Miles, who was born in the month of September (“Whis dropped dramatically because of fears of a possible Dominion pers" [DS8]), grew up with two brothers. (“Invasive Procedures” attack. Shortly thereafter she accepted an assignment as chief [DS8)). During his youth, O'Brien did poorly in mechanical botanist on a agrobiology expedition to Bajor. The assignment aptitude tests, but his later skills belied his test scores. (“Para kept Keiko and her daughter, Molly, away from the station for dise” [DS9]). His father, Michael, wanted him to be a concert much of that year. (“The House of Quark” [DS9], “Fascination cellist, but two days before he was to start at the Aldebaran [DS9)). In 2372, Keiko became pregnant with her second child Music Academy, Miles signed up for Starfleet. (“Shadowplay Later that year she completed her assignment on Bajor, and she [DS9)) and her daughter returned to live on station Deep Space 9 Early in his Starfleet career, O'Brien had been the tac(“Accession” [DS9)). Keiko's second pregnancy nearly ended dis tical officer aboard the U.S.S. Rutledge under the command astrously when she was seriously injured in an accident aboard of Captain Benjamin Maxwell. O'Brien's first experience