Review of Honor Among Thieves

I am glad that someone else got the Donnie Brasco reference in the story. The rather facile comments about "why O'Brien?" misses the point that most viewers would not be too interested in a story based around some Kevin from plant management on Deep Space "choose your own number"! We want to see our heroes push the envelope. O'Brien is a character who has always been a bit more questioning of things, whilst still as his foundation accepting the Federation as the only option. He is one of the nuts and bolts that make the machine work, hence engineer; a human engineer. So, here he is and we want to see how he would cope. He copes by showing his natural affinity to see the best in people and he sees the best in such a flawed character as, Bilby. Just like Donnie Brasco, who was also based on real situations, he cannot stop caring for the one he ultimately has to turn in. But, both he and Bilby have their role to play, and as the episode title suggests both O'Brien and Bilby have their own code of honour to live by. All the actors involved did a fine job, but of course the leads, Meany and Tate shine through. The short episode format means things have to push along, but altogether a fine story told.