The perfect marriage

- They couldn't get Chao or Meaney quite as frequently as everyone else because of their film careers. I know with Meaney they really wanted to show off his acting skills when they had him and determined that he portrayed suffering really well, so O'Brien suffered a lot. I think Keiko's problem was that she was only in a couple episodes per season and the focus was typically on whatever horror was happening to Miles that week. She's not so much a bad wife as a barely present side character.
  
  She just doesn't seem to be a particularly talented actor to me, so she can't act like she loves him.
- I think it was more Rosalind Chao's performance than anything in the writing. Which is weird, because she basically played the opposite character in MASH. But she and Colm Meany just didn't seem to have any chemistry. Maybe they didn't actually like each other?
- As an engineer, I always thought they were going for that stereotype of "smart engineers mess up on the simplest social skills", but I never really felt like Mile's relationship mistakes were that bad at all, and they DEFINITELY didn't call for the kinds of reactions that Keiko had.

Garak is only doing this to drive a wedge between Bashir and O'Brien. His true intention is to pave the way for himself to spend more time with Bashir.

This is not accurate because the first panel is the opposite of what Keiko would say about Miles.
- I think it's something she would say to other people if she was trying to get something from them.
  But I think Garak has higher standards.
  
  Garak is a Bashir-sexual and Keiko is not Bashir enough for him.

I thought it was crazy in one episode where Keiko made breakfast and Miles is whining about how they always eat what she wants and she doesn't even know what he likes to eat.
At that point, they had been married for at least a few months. How do you not know what foods each other like? How long were they dating before marriage?!
- Their personalities are so different I can't imagine the marriage was anything but an arranged space contract or she is a slave or something.

She doesn't seem to enjoy the time she spends with Miles, and even accepts posts for months at a time off-station to get away from him. Of course he spends more time with Julian!
- I think they're an anti marriage trope that really grew legs on ds9. They're so bad for each other it's awkward to watch.