Doctor Julian Bashir

 

This Ultimate Julian Bashir WebRing site is owned by Gabrielle Lawson. Want to join the Ultimate Julian Bashir WebRing? [Skip Prev] [Prev] [Next] [Skip Next] [Random] [Next 5] [List Sites]   Julian Bashir, Chief Medical Officer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is my favorite character. He's intelligent and funny, but he's also kind and compassionate. He's a surprising character, who has been through a lot of twists and turns in the six years the show has been on. He's been nearly killed by a Lethean, used for slave labor in an alternate universe, and kidnapped and held prisoner by the Dominion among other things. In addition, it was revealed that he was genetically enhanced at the age of 6. About a year after that he found himself kidnapped by his own government! Or rather a secret group within the Federation who accused him of treason and then, once he exonerated himself, wanted to recruit him. Screen capture gallery! Discuss Bashir on The Comm Line, my new message board! The TV series is now over, but DS9 lives on in book form. I've included the new history here.   HISTORY Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Season 7 | Post-WYLB Books By episode: Season 1 Emissary: Dr. Bashir arrives on DS9 and promptly annoys Major Kira with his desire for adventure out in the "wilderness." But he proves his worth as a doctor after an attack by Cardassians after the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant was discovered. Past Prologue: Bashir meets the tailor and alleged Cardassian spy, Garak, who uses Bashir to relay information so the Federation and Cardassians can work together to stop a terrorist from destroying the wormhole. A Man Alone: Bashir uses his medical knowledge to help Odo clear his name as a murder suspect. How? Bashir finds genetic remains and finds that they grow into a clone of the murder victim himself. Babel: After O'Brien begins to speak strangely, Bashir diagnoses aphasia and then discovers the problem is actually a virus that mimics aphasia. And the station's residents are about to start dying of it. But before he can come up with an antidote, he contracts the virus himself. Captive Pursuit: Bashir didn't do much in this one except stand in front of the Infirmary talking to someone as O'Brien and a Gamma Quadrant resident walked by. Q-Less: Bashir takes a fancy to Vash, but Q doesn't like the competition and puts him to sleep until the episode is over. Dax: Dax is accused of murder and kidnapped, but not before Bashir makes an attempt at rescue. Unsuccessful, he does manage to contact the others and Dax is saved. But she still has to stand trial--actually it's an extradition hearing at which Bashir becomes one of the witnesses due to his medical expertise. The Passenger: Bashir and Kira answer a distress call from a burning Kobliad ship and Bashir is nearly choked by one of its dying passengers: a prisoner. The only survivor is a security officer who swears the prisoner didn't really die. And it seems she may be right. I won't spoil this for you if you haven't seen it. Move Along Home: Bashir, Dax, Sisko and Kira are trapped in a game by a delegation from the Gamma Quadrant called the Wadi. Bashir helps a time or two to figure out the tricks of the game which moves the group on to the next level. But an unfortunate roll of the dice by Quark eliminates him as a character and Bashir disappears. I do hate to be a spoiler. :-) The Nagus: Bashir is on hand to examine the Ferengi Grand Nagus after he apparently dies, leaving Quark as the new Grand Nagus. Vortex: Bashir examines briefly the fallen Miradorn and confirms his death. He participates in a conference with the senior staff to decide what to do with Croden after he's held for the Miradorn's murder. He analyzes the locket Croden gave to Odo, declaring that it could be a distant cousin to Odo. Battle Lines: Bashir, Kira, Sisko, and the Kai crash land on a prison planet. Bashir tries in vain to revive the dead Kai, but he needn't have bothered. She comes back to life on her own. Bashir fixes the runabout's damaged computer enough to diagnose the problem: microbes keep the inhabitants alive, reviving them after death. But they also keep them in the same place. They are environment specific. Anyone who had died once will die permanently if they leave the planet. The Storyteller: Bashir and O'Brien go on a mercy mission to a village on Bajor. The Sirah there is dying and Bashir is amused when O'Brien is named his successor. A lot of good natured ribbing follows, but it is Bashir who convinces the Sirah's apprentice that O'Brien is only a test from the old Sirah, thereby saving O'Brien from his embarrassing, and dangerous, predicament. Progress: Bashir comes to one of Bajor's moons to treat a wounded, stubborn old man whom Kira has taken a fondness for. If Wishes Were Horses: Bashir's attraction to Dax gets him into trouble when a fantasy Dax--who is crazy about him--appears. But his fantasy isn't the only one to come true. And it looks as if the fate of the universe lies in the balance. The Forsaken: Bashir is chosen by Sisko to be keeper of a nosy bunch of ambassadors, an unhappy task which Sisko seems to enjoy putting on Bashir's shoulders. Meanwhile a new lifeform is loose on the station, wreaking havok. It starts a fire a corridor near the guest quarters where Bashir was taking the ambassadors to wait out the problems caused by the lifeform. When Kira and Sisko finally manage to cut their way into the corridor, it seems Bashir and the ambassadors have been burnt up. But they emerge from a wall compartment, covered in soot but safe, thanks to Bashir's quick thinking. Dramatis Personae: Bashir is only one of several people effected by a telepathic matrix that causes the crew to divide up in a mutiny attempt. Bashir, though, seems to have his own agenda, which Odo uses to get Bashir to find a way to control the matrix. Duet: Bashir is called when a Cardassian passenger of a docking vessel needs medical treatment for Calanora Syndrome--a disease caused by a mishap at Gallitep Labor Camp--which Kira and her resistance cell liberated. But as Bashir continues to treat the Cardassian, the patient is jailed on suspicion of being a war criminal. It is Bashir, who traces the medical records of the prisoner, who finds that he has had cosmetic surgery to change his appearance into that of the war criminal. In the Hands of the Prophets: Doctor Bashir, offscreen, is given a sample of cooked organic material to analyze. He determines that the sample was human and a DNA test proves it was the missing Ensign Aquino and that he was killed by a phaser the night before Vedek Winn arrived on the station.   Season 2 The Homecoming: Bashir treats the liberated but injured Li Nalis, the hero of the Bajoran Resistance. He all-too-eagerly tries to get Li to talk about his glory days, but Li doesn't see them as glory days. He also treats Quark after the latter is branded by the Circle. The Circle: Bashir, Sisko and some others go on an away mission to rescue Major Kira from the terrorist group, the Circle. But it's Bashir who spots Kira first and runs through crossfire to get to her. Just as he reaches her, he's shot himself, but she manages to pick up the comm badge he had for her and they are all beamed away. The Siege: Bashir leads a group of Federation and Bajoran citizens who've decided to stay on the station as guerrilla fighters until the truth about the Circle can reach Bajor. Bashir and his group easily capture one group of Bajorans sent to take the station. Later they provide a diversion--getting captured themselves--in order to let Li have time to talk the Bajoran General into giving up the fight. Invasive Procedures: Bad guys (in the form of one Trill, two Klingons, and a woman of some origin or other) use subterfuge to get onto the station during an ion storm that caused the evacuation of all but a skeleton crew. Taking everyone hostage, they want Bashir to remove Dax's symbiont and put it into Verad, the Trill leader. Reluctantly he agrees, mainly because they shot O'Brien and threatened to keep shooting until he did. He manages to keep Jadzia alive (with the reluctant help of one of the Klingons who was supposed to be guarding him) and with Quark's help, he even manages to subdue the Klingon. This allows them to release Odo and the rescue of the Dax symbiont is on. Cardassians: Bashir must (thanks to Garak) solve a mystery involving a Cardassian orphan adopted by Bajorans. Garak and Bashir travel to Bajor and back in order to find the truth, which Bashir delivers, much to Dukat's chagrin) during a hearing to decided custody of the boy. Melora: An Elosian (don't take my spellings for gospel, I could be very wrong) Starfleet officer comes to DS9. Since her planet has less gravity, she has a hard time functioning physically in the station's standard gravity. But it's her social skills that really hold her back. Bashir manages to break through her barriers though, and a romance ensues. But he also finds a treatment that can help to strengthen her to stand the higher gravity. The cost: she won't be able to go home again. --This episode also marks the first time we really hear anything about Bashir's childhood. He tells about being on Invernia II with his father. He was left alone, at age ten, with a young native girl who was sick, while his father went out, braving a severe ionic storm, to get help. The girl died before help could arrive and they learned that a nearby plant could have saved her. Rules of Acquisition: Bashir treats Quark who has a slight head injury apparently from fainting after finding out Pel is a female. Necessary Evil: Bashir treats Quark who has been shot and is left for dead. This sparks a mystery which Odo must solve. Second Sight: Bashir is one of the guests at a famous terraformer Gideon Seyetik's dinner. He is amused by the the terribly arrogant man and asks for the recipe after dinner. Rivals: Bashir and O'Brien take up racquetball against each other. Bashir wins. Over and over. Which causes O'Brien to hate him and Bashir to think that O'Brien is going to drop from a heart attack. Quark, unbeknownst to the two, sets up a tournament and then tries to rig it by sedating Bashir because everyone is betting on him to win. The tournament is called though on extenuating circumstances. This won't be the last time O'Brien and Bashir play though, and it's actually the start of a good friendship. The Alternate: Bashir treats Dr. Mora, Dax and some other members of a team sent to study a planet that might hold a clue to Odo's origins. But he's attacked one night by a strange creature that seems to have returned with them. It turns out that creature is a transformed Odo, who, after being captured, wakes up in the Infirmary, where Bashir delivers what I think is a very funny line: "I prescribe rest, because it's hard for a doctor to go wrong with that one." Armageddon Game: Bashir and O'Brien are with the T'lani and Kelleran, who are trying to find a way to destroy the Harvesters, a nasty chemical weapon the two peoples have been using in a long war. The two sides want peace now and Bashir finds a way to destroy the horrid weapon. But just as the last cannister is about to be destroyed, troops come into the lab shooting everyone. Bashir and O'Brien escape, but not until a drop of the Harvesters falls on the Chief's arm. He and Bashir beam down to a deserted (because everyone was killed by the Harvesters) planet and hold up until help can arrive. --We learn some more about Bashir's past here. He had a true love back on Earth. A ballerina named Palis DeLon, but his career in Starfleet called him away. He hasn't talked to her since. Whispers: Bashir forces O'Brien into his annual physical. He's actually trying to find evidence that O'Brien isn't who he says he is, but he can find none. Another funny line. During the physical, Bashir remarks something along the lines of: "I know you don't like doctors." O'Brien replies: "It's not doctors, it's ...." And together: "You, Julian!" Paradise: Bashir is not really in this one much except at the end, when he beams down to help in the rescue of O'Brien and Sisko. Shadowplay: Don't remember if anything happened on the station. Bashir wasn't on the away team, so I'm not sure if he had much to do in this or not. Playing God: Bashir returns to the station with a Trill initiate in tow, whom he introduces to Dax. Profit and Loss: Bashir is having lunch with Garak trying to figure out if Garak is a spy or an outcast when Natima and her "students" arrive in Quark's. Blood Oath: A Dax episode. Not much Bashir. The Maquis, Part I: Bashir is watching with others from Ops as Sisko has a heated disussion with Starfleet in his office. He accompanies Sisko and Kira in an away mission to try and rescue Dukat from his Maquis kidnappers. He's relunctantly prepared for the possibility that they may have to fire on Federation citizens. They are all captured by Cal Hudson and the Maquis. The Maquis, Part II: Bashir, Kira, and Sisko are shot (stunned) by the Maquis. Bashir is in the next away team that goes to the Maquis hideout to rescue Dukat. He even tries to smooth things by suggesting the Maquis and the Federation work together to stop the arms shipments. When fighting breaks out, Bashir stuns one of the Maquis while Sisko shoots a couple others. Bashir confiscates the captured Maquis' phasers. He is in one of the runabouts when they face the Maquis ships. The Wire: Garak begins acting strangely at his weekly lunch with Bashir. Bashir notes that he's in pain, but Garak refuses to come to the Infirmary. Bashir won't settle for that though, and he insists on helping Garak. Garak, it seems has become addicted to an implant given him by the Obsidian Order. And he's dying. Bashir must go to Cardassia and find the former head of the Obsidian Order, Enabran Tain himself, in order to find the information he needs to save Garak's life. A very good Bashir episode. Another great line. Garak: Has anyone ever told you, you are an infuriating pest? Bashir: Chief O'Brien, all the time, and I don't pay any attention to him either! Crossover: Bashir and Kira find themselves in the Mirror universe (last seen in TOS's Mirror, Mirror) where the Terrans are slaves and the Bajorans are in an alliance with the Klingons and Cardassians. The mirror Kira is the Intendant of Terok Nor. She takes an interest in her mirror self, our Kira, while Bashir must go to Ore Processing. There he tries to befriend the mirror O'Brien. Meanwhile, Kira tries to get help from Quark and then Sisko in the hopes of getting her and Bashir back to their own universe. But before she can succeed, the mirror Garak has a proposition for her, one that includes killing Bashir if she declines. Odo, Bashir's overseer, is all set to carry that out, but a convenient explosion serves as a good diversion. As everyone panicks, Bashir grabs the phaser of a Bajoran guard. Odo aims his own phaser at Bashir, but Bashir is faster and Odo explodes. Bashir eventually gets lost and finds O'Brien, whom he convinces to help him in return for being taken with him and Kira back to their universe. But they get caught. Bashir is sentenced with a horrendous death, but it's when O'Brien is told that he will die along side Bashir that Sisko and his men decide to revolt. The tables are turned and Bashir and Kira are able to return to their own universe. O'Brien stayed behind with Sisko. The Collaborator: Bashir really wasn't in this one. Tribunal: Bashir doesn't like that the evidence seems to suggest that O'Brien is guilty of what the Cardassians claim of giving weapons to the Maquis and is encouraged to learn that O'Briens voice was forged in order to frame him. A Maquis approaches Bashir in his dark Infirmary to tip them off that Boone (the forger) isn't a Maquis as it was thought. He examines him and finds that Boone is really a Cardassian. The Jem'Hadar: When Sisko and others go missing, Bashir and the rest of the crew go out to find them in runabouts, with the Odyssey, a Galaxy class vessel. They find them, but run into the Jem'Hadar along the way, and the Odyssey is destroyed.   Season 3 The Search, Part I: The Defiant is introduced, and Bashir jokingly complains about the size of the sickbay. He protests leaving behind Dax and O'Brien on the communications satelite to continue the search for the Founders. When the Jem'Hadar do attack, and the helm officer is disabled, Bashir takes the helm and even destroys one Jem'Hadar ship before the Defiant is boarded and he, Sisko, and T'Rul are overpowered. The Search, Part II: Bashir and Sisko are in a damaged shuttle, and Bashir is pretending to sleep while Sisko records a dreary log. He is still optomistic enough to make jokes--or maybe he's just resigned to his fate. But then O'Brien and Dax show up and return them to the station where negotiations are underway. Bashir begins to feel suspicious after conversations with Garak and especially after the Jem'Hadar are allowed to beat O'Brien for a minor problem. After Sisko is arrested, Julian, Garak, and Dax break him out and make a run for the runabout pads where O'Brien is waiting. Garak gets them out of a sticky situation but is killed in the attempt. Bashir reluctantly leaves him behind and the runabout lifts off on the way to destroy the wormhole. In Bashir's mind (and the rest of the characters) the next thing to happen is that they wake up in a cave on the Founders homeworld. It was all a test, a simulation. The House of Quark: Bashir gives rather wise advice to O'Brien about how to help his marriage. Equilibrium: Bashir tries to treat Dax, who is having hallucinations and imbalances in her isoboramine levels. In the end, Dax must be taken back to the Trill homeworld, where a previous host is discovered--a murderer. The Trills want to remove the symbiont, but Bashir and Sisko uncover the truth and save Dax. There's a wonderful scene I just have to share: On the way to the Trill homeworld, Dax comes to Julian's quarters, saying she can't sleep. She's afraid of doctors. Julian tells her that he was too. They had the power over life or death. He used to think that, if he was bad, they would make him sick. He wanted to know what they knew. In the end, as he was learning, he realized he just wanted to help people. "And if that story doesn't bore you to sleep, I don't know what will" (or words to that effect). "You're a dear man, Julian Bashir," Dax replies, kissing him on the cheek. Second Skin: Bashir treats Kira, returning her to her Bajoran appearance, after her abduction and transformation by the Cardassian Obsidian Order. The Abandoned: Bashir is there to take car of the baby Jem'Hadar, who grows very rapidly and is then placed in Odo's custody. Bashir attempts to synthesize the enzyme the Jem'Hadar are engineered to be addicted to. Civil Defense: Bashir is in Ops when the buried security program takes over the station. He treats Dax when her hands are burnt by a force field and he attempts to retrieve Kira's phaser from the Ops table when the replicator begins shooting at non-Cardassians. He is amused by Garak, but only so far. He tells Garak that his ribbing of Dukat isn't helping when the situation grows increasingly dire. Meridian: Julian supports Dax and medically alters her physiology so that she can stay with her new love on a disappearing planet. Defiant: After Kira yells at him, Julian orders her, using that voice of his--the one where you have no choice but to obey--to relax by taking her to Quarks and ordering her to have a good time. Fascination: Lwaxana Troi's Xanthi (sp?) fever effects those around her, causing them to act on latent attractions. For Bashir, that means Kira, and it's mutual. But in the end, Sisko guesses the connection to Troi, and Bashir reaches the proper diagnosis. Past Tense: Sisko, Bashir, and Dax are accidentally transported back in time to Earth 2024. Dax gets along okay, but Sisko and Bashir are picked up as vagrants and taken to a Sanctuary District, just days before the Bell Riots erupt. When Bashir is attacked by "ghosts," and a stranger coming to his aid is killed, Sisko has to take over the stranger's identity: Gabriel Bell. Bashir stays with him, trying to keep the rioters' hostages alive. Life Support: Bashir brings a dead Bareil back to life, but not without complications. Bashir wants to put him into stasis until he can help more. Bareil refuses, wanting to continue work on a treaty between Cardassia and Bajor. Bashir must go farther and farther to keep Bareil alive. Interestingly, he even confronts--and makes an enemy of--Kai Winn, hoping to have her tell Bareil that he wasn't needed, so that he'd agree to stasis. Heart of Stone: Don't think he was really in this one either. Destiny: Or this one. Prophet Motive: Bashir is up for the Carrington Award, the youngest nominee ever. But he has stiff competition and not a lot of confidence in himself. He tries to appear nonchalant and uneffected, but his friends know the truth. Bashir doesn't win, but there's always the future. The Carrington is supposed to tribute to a lifelong career in medicine. By the way, he also interacted with the A story by testing Zek, who is acting strangely generous. Visionary: Bashir treats O'Brien for radiation poisoning and is there to help him when he flashes forward--and back again--in time. Distant Voices: As Bashir's 30th birthday approaches, a Lethian also does. Only he's asking for biomemetic gel--a strictly controlled substance. Bashir refuses, but finds the Lethian later ransacking the Infirmary. The Lethian attacks Bashir, throwing him into a telepathic coma where Bashir watches his friends, representing parts of himself, die one by one as he himself ages faster and faster. But finally he works out the situation, facing a truth about himself and defeats the Lethian in his mind, becoming one of the few victims to ever survive such an attack. 30 doesn't seem so bad to him now. Through the Looking Glass: The alternate universe's Bashir is the only one here. Sisko encounters him and punches him, knocking him across a table to show his dominance of the rebel group. Improbable Cause: Bashir has lunch with Garak and then consults with Kira on the breathing atmosphere of visiting delegates. When he hears and explosion and identifies it as Garak's shop, he runs into the burning shop to find his friend. Then he tries to get Garak to cooperate in the investigation by telling the truth and not more lies. The Die is Cast: In Garak's absence, Bashir tries to have lunch with O'Brien, who proves to be very unconversational at meal time. Bashir is also on hand to meet Garak and Odo when they're rescued by the Defiant. Explorers: The Lexington is coming to DS9, bringing the valedictorian of Bashir's graduating class. He's nervous and very unsure of himself. He's also quite disturbed when Dr. Elizabeth Lens walks right by him without noticing. He and O'Brien share an amusing drinking scene where they sing "Jerusalem" and discuss Julian's not being "an in between kind of person." Turns out, she didn't recognize him and really envies him and his experiences at Deep Space Nine. Family Business: Don't remember him being in this one. Shakaar: O'Brien and Bashir play darts--and O'Brien is winning. He's "in the zone" until he dislocates his shoulder and must forfeit a game so that Bashir can perform surgery. In the end, it appears that Julian is "in the zone." Facets: Bashir, along with Dax's other friends, agree to help her in a ritual where she gets to meet her symbiont's previous hosts. Bashir embodies Torias, a shuttle pilot who died in an accident. The Adversary: Bashir is replaced, not once, but twice by a changeling running amuck on the Defiant in order to provoke a war. Season 4 (Special thanks to Blue Champagne, who helped me with some of these listings. If she hadn't, it would have taken me a lot longer, I'm sure. Mostly, I use her words as a resource from which to jog my own memory. But she has some really cool remarks in some places, so I'll reference those with "B.C.:") The Way of the Warrior, Part I: Odo "kills" Bashir, a team leader during a battle drill. He later treats Garak after the latter is beaten up after taunting a bunch of angry Klingons. When Worf comes to the station, Bashir and O'Brien introduce him to the wonderful world of darts. The Way of the Warrior, Part II: Bashir reminds Captain Sisko that the cloaking device, by treaty, is not to be used in the Alpha Quadrant. However, since they're trying to save the Cardassian civilian government from hordes of invading Klingons, he cuts a deal with Sisko. He won't tell the Romulans if the captain won't. Once the Cardassian government is saved, Bashir is on hand to test their. Dukat protests, saying he finds the procedure offensive. Bashir says he finds Dukat offensive and threatens him with Security's interference. Doctor Bashir shoots a Klingon just in time to save Odo's life after the station is boarded. The Visitor: Through several years, Julian Bashir works with Dax and Chief O'Brien to try and free Captain Sisko who became trapped in an interdimensional anomaly. At one point, it's fifty years in the future. Bashir goes along with Jadzia Dax, Jake Sisko, and Captain Nog on the Defiant to try one more time to stabilize Captain Sisko in time. Jadzia teases him about bragging about his grandchildren. Hippocratic Oath: Julian and Miles are returning to the station from the Gamma Quadrant when they pick up a distress signal. They check it out, but crash land on a planet only to find themselves prisoners of the Jem'Hadar. The Jem'Hadar First, Garan'Agar, spares their lives in return for Bashir working to find a cure for their addiction to Ketracel White. Bashir stalls at first, but then begins to believe in Garan'Agar's sincerity. He and the Chief disagree, but Bashir reluctantly pulls rank. Chief O'Brien goes his own way, though, disobeying and trying to escape. He does a pretty good job of it, but comes back for Julian. Julian wants to stay and finish his work, believing that freeing the Jem'Hadar could change everything for the better. O'Brien uses his phaser to destroy Julian's work, forcing him to come along. They are captured again, but Garan'Agar frees them, allowing them to return to the station. The trip back is a quiet one, with a schism now between the two friends. Julian is upset that Miles disobeyed him and destroyed his work, condemning the Jem'Hadar to death. (My take is O'Brien didn't respect him as a superior officer.) Miles says only that he did it to save Julian's life. Indiscretion: B.C.: Julian shows up at the beginning when everyone and their dog drop by to see Kira off on a dangerous mission. Rejoined: Julian explains the Trill taboo of reassociation to Kira after the symbiont of Torias Dax's wife shows up in Prof. Lenara Kahn, whom Dax is still in love with. He lets Jadzia talk him into playing chaperone on a dinner date between the two Trills and finds himself bored into a near catatonic state. Saved by a crewman with a broken leg, Bashir makes a fast exit. Little Green Men: Those hoping for a readdressing of the angst between O'Brien and Bashir over Hippocratic Oath would be disappointed. Bashir and O'Brien, in their one tiny scene together, appear to have made up quite nicely as they share a gift to Nog who is setting out for Earth and Starfleet Academy. Starship Down: B.C.:When the Defiant is badly damaged, Julian is helping evacuate the parts of the ship that are about to be exposed to space by the failing force field covering a major hull breach. Just as the field falls, he hears Jadzia, who has been in engineering making repairs, call his name. He can't see her through the gases escaping from broken lines, but he runs back into the danger zone to find her choking on fluorine and manages to get them both into an unpowered turbolift, where they spend the rest of the show, getting steadily colder and contemplating the fact that they only have a few hours of breathable air, according to Julian. In an attempt to cheer Jadzia up, he kids her about her having enjoyed the way he used to chase her and insists that she misses it now that he's stopped. After they return to the station, Julian is trapped in a deadly dull conversation with Morn, in which we find that Morn has seventeen brothers and sisters, and Jadzia comes up to summon him for his turn in a fabricated game of darts. He thanks her for rescuing him and she says "Now we're even." The Sword of Kahless: Bashir is one of many people sitting in Quark's as Kor regales his listeners with Klingon stories of glory. Our Man Bashir: Bashir is enjoying a James Bond-like holosuite program when Garak, quite illegally, decides to join him. Julian is miffed at first, but allows the Cardassian to stay. Neither of them are aware of a runabout explosion that forced the crew in Ops to save Sisko, Dax, Jadzia, and O'Brien by storing their transporter patters in the computer--that is, until Julian's circular bed rotates to reveal Colonel Anastasia Komononov, who looks a lot like Major Kira. And the missing scientist, Prof. Honey Bare, whom both the colonel and Bashir have been ordered to find, looks a lot like Dax. The confusion is broken up when Falcon, Bashir's long-time enemy appears. But he's the Chief! Falcon tries to kill everyone, but Bashir, with the others' help, gets out of it. A call to Ops explains the problem. The physical patterns of the four crewmembers are in the holobuffer. (B.C.:) Julian must keep the program running until the problem can be solved, but he cannot simply allow events to play out--that would end with the deaths of either Dax or Kira, and likely all of the other three. The safeties are out, and he can't shut the program down or call for the arch either. (Me again:)A running debate ensues--as Bashir tracks down the infamous Dr. Noah (Sisko) and the missing Prof. Bare and finds out their nefarious plan to wipe out the present world and create a new one--as to whether it will be impossible to save all of the four when two of the four are bent on killing Bashir and his friends. (B.C.:) Garak calls him six kinds of an idiot for risking both their lives, since if the characters don't die, he and Julian likely will. (Garak is already in a mood because Julian is, as Julian says, "...playing at something which YOU take so VERY seriously.") He and Garak both manage to see the other's points in the end. Best line, having just shot been shot and winged in the neck by Bashir to keep him from calling for the arch, Garak protests that Julian could have killed him employing such a technique. Bashir's response: "How do you know I wasn't trying?" Homefront: Paradise Lost: Crossfire: (B.C.) The only time we see Julian is the very beginning when they're all meeting Shakaar at the airlock. He compliments Miles on the way his dress tunic shows off his figure, causing Miles to do a double-take. Return to Grace: Sons of Mogh: The Bar Association: We find out that Julian and Leeta are officially dating. But while Leeta is on strike with the rest of Quark's employees, Bashir sits outside with O'Brien trying to guess which patrons will cross the picket line and which ones won't. When Miles and Worf get into a fight over the issue, Julian tries to stop them but gets thrown over a table. Captain Sisko invites all three to spend the night in a holding cell. Accession: Rules of Engagement: Hard Time: Julian is on hand to try and help O'Brien after he's implanted with the memories of 20 years of imprisonment. When Miles becomes obstinate and closed off, Bashir must order him off-duty. But he's there in the cargo bay when Miles needs him. He talks O'Brien out of shooting himself with a phaser. Shattered Mirror: The only Bashir here is Captain Bashir, a cocky rebel fighter, co-leader with Smiley. He's also a very good pilot, surviving his diversionary suicide mission to help the new Defiant fight the Regent's ships. The Muse: For the Cause: To The Death: The Quickening: Bashir and Dax beam down to a planet whose inhabitants are infected by a terminal illness inflicted as punishment by the Jem'Hadar over two hundred years before. As a result, their civilization crumbled and they began to worship death. Bashir offers to find a cure, and Dax stays to assist, but when his instruments cause his patients to die more quickly, and more painfully, he is crushed. He and Dax pack up to leave, but when he sees his friend, Ekoria has entered the last stages of the disease, he stays, helping her to stay alive long enough to have her baby. He is frustrated when the antigen he's been preparing has no effect on her, but then the baby is born, free of the disease. Ekoria lives to hold her baby just once and then dies. Julian hands the baby, and instructions for the vaccine to Trevean, a healer of sorts, who administered herbs that killed quickly, thus avoiding the pain of the final stages, the quickening. Trevean now has new hope and promises that it will be a privilege to make and distribute the vaccine to all the pregnant women so that the children can be born free of the disease. When Bashir returns to the station, Sisko finds him still trying to find the cure. Sisko tries to encourage him, saying that he saved their children, and Bashir says that is what he keeps telling himself. Body Parts: Broken Link: Bashir tries to treat Odo, who has contracted a mysterious illness. Bashir stays with him when Odo is taken into the Gamma Quadrant to meet up with the Founders. He's reluctant to leave the Female Changeling alone with Odo, which shows his protective nature. Bashir beams down with Sisko and Odo as Odo is tried by his people, and it is he who confirms that Odo has become a human. Season 5 Apoclypse Rising: The Ship: Looking for Par'Mach in all the Wrong Places: Nor the Battle to the Strong: Trials and Tribble-ations: The Assignment: Let he Who Is Without Sin: Things Past: The Ascent: Rapture: The Darkness and the Light: The Begotten: For the Uniform: In Purgatory's Shadow: By Inferno's Light: Doctor Bashir, I Presume: A Simple Investigation: Business as Usual: Ties of Blood and Water: Of Love and Profit: Soldiers of the Empire: Children of Time: Blaze of Glory: Empok Nor: In the Cards: Call to Arms: Season 6 I'll try and get to these soon. Season 7 (Working backward is easier on my memory!) Image in the Sand: Bashir helped O'Brien come up with a way to find out why it was so hard for Worf to come to terms with Jadzia's death. Then he volunteered for the apparently suicidal mission to get Jadzia into Stovokor. Shadows and Symbols: Bashir tries to keep the peace on the Klingon ship by shutting Quark up. He's unsuccessful. Other than that, he seems to stand around on the bridge running calculations or some such for the mission to cause a sun flare to wipe of the Dominion ship yards. Afterimage: Bashir tells Quark he's not interested in going after Ezri Dax since she's not the same woman. He meets up with her later in the Replimat though and they have a touching, if uncomfortable conversation, much to Worf's chagrin. Bashir is later accosted by Worf in the Infirmary. Seems the big lug thinks Julian is after Ezri. Not surprisingly, Julian is the one who apologizes later, sending a bottle of blood wine to Worf. (He should have brought Worf up on charges. Sometimes he's just too nice.) Take Me to the Holosuite: Julian and the rest of the crew form a baseball team, the Niners, to try and help Sisko with a grudge match with a Vulcan. We never see Julian make a catch or a hit. We see him and Ezri miss a catch though, thinking the other had it. And he's very good at the rules of the game. Chrysalis: Julian treats the genetically enhanced Serena when her friends break out of the Institute and bring her to DS9. He cures her and then is entranced by her discovery of the world around her. He falls for her, but she doesn't even know what love is. To her, he's her hero and Julian just got carried away. In the end, she leaves him to find her own life, and Julian is left to his lonely one on the station. Treachery, Faith, and the Great River: Julian only makes a short appearance, niggling O'Brien when the latter tries to replace the Captain's missing desk with a smaller white one of the wrong shape. Once More Unto the Breach: I can't even remember if there was a B-story. Bashir certainly wasn't in the A-story. The Siege of AR-558: Bashir is on the away team that beams down to AR-558 to deliver supplies. When the Jem'Hadar attack, Captain Sisko decides to stay. Julian treats the wounded, including Nog, who loses a leg after a reconnaissance mission. Just before the attack, Julian breaks the tension by putting on a recording by Vic Fontaine. He then joins the ranks with his own phaser rifle and takes down a few of the Jem'Hadar before he's wounded himself. He's nearly killed, when a Jem'Hadar comes from behind him, but Captain Sisko saves his life. The captain is then knocked down, and it looks like he's going to die. But the scene blacks out until Sisko wakes. Who saved him? I like to think it was Julian, but I suppose we'll never know. Julian is once again treating the wounded when Sisko wakes up, and he beams up with the wounded to be evacuated to Starbase 371. Covenant: Julian is in Quark's with Dax and Odo waiting for Kira to come out of the temple. We don't see him again for the rest of the episode. It's Only a Paper Moon: Bashir is with everyone else waiting to greet Nog upon his return. He later reports that Nog has missed two physical therapy sessions but agrees with Dax that Nog should be allowed to choose his own treatment. There's a cute scene where everyone is complaining about Nog staying in a holosuite. In doing so, they speak snidely about each of the holosuite programs that Julian enjoys, causing him to feel more and more insulted each time. Prodigal Daughter: Julian seems preoccupied at Quark's and lets Kira think that he's just waiting forMiles to return so they can get off to a holosuite program. But when Miles doesn't show up on the transport he was supposed to be on, a worried Julian goes to Captain Sisko and fills him in on the little information he knows of O'Brien's vacation. O'Brien hadn't gone home but to New Sydney where he was searching for Bilby's widow. Captain Sisko reads Bashir the riot act and tells him to prepare a report with everything he knows within the hour. Bashir sees Ezri off as she goes home to search for O'Brien. Seems her Mom has some pull on New Sydney. When Ezri doesn't appear anxious to return home, Bashir offers her some comfort, from someone else who isn't especially close to his parents. The Emperor's New Cloak: The only Bashir here is Captain Bashir, of the alternate universe. He shoots and kills the alternate Vic Fontaine and captures the alternate Ezri Dax, our Quark and Rom, and General Martok's cloaking device. They all get away, but Bashir is there in the Defiantwith O'Brien when the Regent is defeated and victory is won. Field of Fire: Julian toasts a new, young lieutenant who happens to be a great pilot. Illario flew the Defiant into battle against six Jem'Hadar ships and came out the winner. The next day, Julian is examining his body for cause of death. It was Julian who gave O'Brien the idea that the bullet that killed Illario wasn't fired at him directly. He was also there to comfort Dax when she was feeling upset by her own memories of murder. Chimera: Julian is in Quark's with several of Odo's friends, when Odo introduces the abrasive Laas. He's also on the Promenade with O'Brien, trying to figure out where the fog had come from (Laas). After Laas is in an altercation with a couple of Klingons, Bashir is unable to save one of them, which leads to the incarceration of the new changeling. Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang: Bashir and O'Brien invite Vic to join them in their Alamo holosuite program, but then are distracted when Vic's suddeenly changes. He and O'Brien lead the team in coming up with a plan to rid the bar of the new mobster owners by stealing the money that Frankie Eyes is supposed to give his boss. Julian's part was to put ipecac in one of the count men's drink, but when the other count man begins to return to the count room before Nog can get the safe open, Julian steps in to lead him away. Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges: Bashir and Garak discuss his upcoming conference on Romulus and Garak is disappointed in Bashir's seemingly invincible optimism. But then Bashir wakes up in the middle of the night to find Sloan at the foot of his bed. Section 31 wants Bashir to spy on the Romulans while he's at the conference. Surprisingly, Sloan comes along to the conference, under the alias of Wendel Greer. He leads Bashir to believe that Section 31 is planning the assassination of the head of the Tal'Shiar, Koval. But in reality, they played on his decency and manipulated him into doing exactly what they wanted. When Admiral Ross comes down with an aneurism, Bashir turns to the only other person he feels he can trust. Senator Cretak reluctantly believes him. But then Bashir is taken into custody by the Tal'Shiar for "questioning." When they can learn nothing, he's taken before the Romulan Continuing Council, where Cretak is on trial for treason. He tells the truth, as he knows it, but then Sloan is brought out, beaten and bruised. Koval reveals that during his "questioning," Sloan admitted that he made up Section 31 to get revenge on the Romulans for allegedly killing his mentor. Cretak is taken into custody, Bashir is ordered released, and Sloan is ordered to more "questioning." When Sloan rebels, Bashir watches as Koval fires his disruptor and Sloan is vaporized. Or is he? Bashir confronts Admiral Ross who admits the plan. Koval is a mole, a spy for Section 31, now more secure in his position. Senator Cretak must pay the price. Bashir is appalled that Ross would so easily break the principles for which Federation citizens are dying. When he returns to the station, Sloan again wakes him up, thanking him for being a decent man, since a decent man is what they needed. Penumbra: 'Til Death Do Us Part: Julian is a guest at the wedding of Captain Sisko and Kassidy Yeats. (I'll have to watch again to see if there was anything else.) Strange Bedfellows: Bashir is in Quark's with O'Brien, discussing the missing Worf and Ezri. We start to see a hint of Julian's serious affection for the new Dax. Changing Face of Evil: When It Rains: Bashir asks to borrow a cup of Odo for research on replacement organs. Odo reluctantly agrees before leaving for a mission with Kira and Garak. Bashir tells O'Brien that he has asked Ezri point-blank why she has been avoiding him. He has even tricked her into coming by the Infirmary so he can get an answer. But when she arrives, he doesn't give her time to explain. He had been running scans on the sample Odo gave him. And now he sees that Odo has the disease which is killing the Founders. Bashir tries to get records from a scan of Odo taken at Starfleet Medical some three years earlier but he is rebuffed. With Sisko's help (and Sigma Nine clearance) Bashir gets the files only to discover that they are fakes, actually copies of a scan by Dr. Mora. Someone was trying to keep him from the truth. He is able to estimate the date when Odo contracted the disease though, and it points to his time with Starfleet Medical. Bashir and O'Brien begin to suspect Section 31. O'Brien wants to tell Sisko, but Bashir won't let him, claiming that Sisko will have to tell Starfleet and then Section 31 will find out and "take steps." Tacking into the Wind: Bashir continues to try and find the cure for Odo in the lab, staying up night after night. O'Brien brings him food and tries to convince him to rest. O'Brien also tries to convince Bashir that they should try to get the cure from Section 31. A false report to Starfleet Medical, saying that Bashir has found the cure, should lure an operative to come and try to destroy his work. Bashir finally agrees after his research proves futile. Extreme Measures: Bashir tells Odo that there's nothing more he can do for him and at Odo's insistance tries to estimate how much time Odo has left. He is forced to admit his and O'Brien's scheme to Sisko after all, telling him also of his suspicion of Section 31's intent toward genocide. He has trouble sleeping and breaks into Quark's to play darts. When O'Brien finds him, he tells, with anger, how he'd estimated the number of people involved in Odo's disease. He wants to destroy Section 31. The men's scheme proves successful when Sloan appears in Bashir's quarters that night. Bashir traps him and stuns him. Then, in a lab, he and O'Brien prepare to use Romulan mind probes to find the information they need to cure Odo. Sloan admits that he was wrong about Bashir, now seeing him as a danger to the Federation. In the time-honored tradition of captured spies, Sloan commits suicide. Bashir tries to save his life, but in the end only delays Sloan's death. He and O'Brien then constuct a device to let them into Sloan's mind in a sort of virtual reality. They are tricked once or twice and nearly die along with Sloan, but in the end, they find the information. Bashir is tempted to stay and collect more information, information that could destroy Section 31, but O'Brien reminds him that Odo is counting on him and that Sloan only wants to delay him so that they will die when he does. They "wake up" just in time. Julian administers the antedote and Odo is cured. The Dogs of War: As the new Defiant arrives, Julian and Ezri make uncomfortable small talk. After releasing Odo, Bashir tells him the truth about the cause of his disease. When Odo gets angry, Bashir tells him that he agrees. Later, he and Ezri finally talk about their feelings but agree to remain mature and stay just friends. Toward the end of the episode, they meet in a turbolift on the way to Ops. By the time they reach Ops, they are kissing. Word quietly sends them back down the shaft. What You Leave Behind: Bashir and Ezri wake up together and discuss the coming mission, promising each other that they will return. On the Defiant, O'Brien begins to tell Bashir something, but when Bashir figures it's about the model (which isn't entirely wrong), he just agrees. It isn't until O'Brien is wounded and Bashir is treating him that O'Brien tells him that he is leaving DS9 to teach at the Academy. Bashir tries to take the news well, but is stunned. He tries to continue with his treatment there on the Bridge, but with the ship taking too many hits, he orders O'Brien to Sickbay. He is seen later treated the wounded in a busy Sickbay when Sisko calls to ask for a report. Bashir promises that he won't keep anyone down there longer than necessary. After the battle, he goes down to Cardassia where he and Garak are receiving casualty reports. 800 million Cardassians, and the reports are still coming in. He tries to find words to comfort his friend, but there aren't any really. Garak thanks him for being his friend and tells him that he will miss their lunches together. Bashir says they'll surely see each other again, but Garak isn't certain of that. Bashir and the rest of the crew are in Vic's for a celebration, and later he brings tea to Kassidy after Sisko goes missing. He helps O'Brien carry his bags and gives his friend a hug before he walks away. Bashir and Ezri plan an evening in the holosuites together, though he refuses to go to the Alamo, since that was what he did with Miles. He suggests another brave battle against overwhelming odds. The Spartans, this time. Post-WYLB Books Avatar, Book One: Bashir performs autopsies one two Bajorans: a murder and his victim. He also treats many wounded after an attack by Jem'Hadar and blames himself, though he knows he shouldn't, for the deaths of those he cannot save. He experiences some difficulty in his relationship with Ezri since she's becoming more "integrated" with her symbiont and its past hosts. He doesn't know how to take what's happening with her and is hurt that she seems not to take his feelings into account. He seeks out Vic's advice. Avatar, Book Two: Bashir and Ezri talk and come to an agreement that will give Ezri space to find out what she wants to do with her life. He is still hurt but wants her to be happy. When trying to give a captured Jem'Hadar his ration of Ketracel white, Bashir is attacked and very nearly killed. When he recovers, he makes for an impatient patient for Dr. Crusher of the visiting Enterprise (they were around in Book One as well.) Ezri realizes that she'll have her life to work herself out but she only has one Julian, so they are back together. In the end, Bashir thanks a different Jem'Hadar for saving his life. I'll try and update this history soon. If you've been to my Stories page, you'll note that Bashir is the main character in all my Star Trek stories. If you haven't been there, you might want to check them out. I've been told they're quite good. Medical Log Supplimental is a wonderful Bashir site. Sid Sity is the official site of Siddig El Fadil/Alexander Siddig. JADannay's Dr. Julian Bashir Fanfic Archive is another place to find stories.    Back to my main page.