#also it's not your and keiko's fault you're tarred with the 90s 'even happy marriage is hell' trope i know you guys are trying

[vaguely-concerned]

I am taking the fact that o'brien hung out with bashir in this lighting

for a whole episode, without it apparently stirring much in him other than maybe faint irritation, as proof that for all his other wonderful qualities our chief of operations really may be completely heterosexual