Although O'Brien is often posted to a transporter room, it's heavily implied that it's only one of many duties he has. He was at the helm in "Encounter at Farpoint", he appeared in main engineering many times, he was the one who monitored Data's condition when they had Data hooked up to Locutus in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"...
Little bit of trivia I didn't know until recently: do you know who played in the first "poker game" on TNG?
I think of the season 3-7 adult main cast (minus Picard, of course) as being the ones who played, but the first game they had in an episode was in season 2's "Measure of a Man", and the players were Data, Riker, LaForge, Pulaski and O'Brien.
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