Sean Aloysius O'Brien

Sean Aloysius O'Brien was a male Human coal mine worker on Earth in the late 19th century and 1900s. He was an ancestor of Miles O'Brien.

He was born in the 19th century and was a union leader in Pennsylvania in 1902. Sean and a group of employees went out on strike against the owners of a coal mine and refused to open the mine until their demands were met. He then made the ultimate sacrifice for his union, as he was later found dead in the Allegheny River with 32 or 34 gunshot wounds in his body a week before the strike ended.

In 2372, Chief O'Brien told Rom about Sean O'Brien, after the Ferengi formed a union of bar employees to fight his brother Quark's unfair labor practices. Rom remarked that this was not a very encouraging example. O'Brien was proud of his ancestor, as he "was a union man". (DS9: "Bar Association")

This character was only mentioned in dialogue.

According to the script, his first and middle name were pronounced as "SHAWN al-oh-WIH-shus". [1]

The actual leader, as noted by the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 2, p. 96, of the 1902 anthracite strike was United Mine Workers' president John Mitchell.

External link

• Sean Aloysius O'Brien at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works