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Apparently it was meant to be Keiko but Rosalind Chao was busy at the time.

This is why it is important to build up multiple minor characters via b-stories in any given series.

happy second appearance to leeta

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Look at him just having the funniest of times.

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You didn't need to clarify, I understood that you were speaking strictly about when he gets loud, and I was agreeing with you. The character is not a loud person in general and especially not when he's angry, so on the few times when he was supposed to yell and get loud it is horribly jarring and feels fake. The delivery may also be off but possibly that's because Siddig was told to do it against Julian's nature by the director or the script. I definitely feel that those scenes would have been better with Julian's usual more icy delivery.

Look I really like Julian Bashir. Hes jolly good fun and a great twinky blorbo. That being saiiidd.....I cannot STAND his "serious" voice. Whenever hes trying to get all dramatic he just sounds so WHINEY. Like he does it throughout the series but the two instances that stick out to me the most are 1) where Julian is confronting Admiral Ross over helping section 31 and gives his big Ceasar can do no wrong speech. And 2) being ironically in the final arc when he's playing darts with Miles and complaining about how section 31 has wormed its way into the federation.

Like the actual words he uses are totally fine its his DELIVERY. Like he sounds like a highschool drama student and not a very good one at that.

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That's because he's meant to be hot-angry in those scenes but Julian's entire personality leans him towards being a cold-angry type of person so it's jarring against how the character is the rest of the time and how the viewer expects him to be.

His best angry moments are the ones where he doesn't yell at all, but just gets really quiet and a bit nasty.

Look I really like Julian Bashir. Hes jolly good fun and a great twinky blorbo. That being saiiidd.....I cannot STAND his "serious" voice. Whenever hes trying to get all dramatic he just sounds so WHINEY. Like he does it throughout the series but the two instances that stick out to me the most are 1) where Julian is confronting Admiral Ross over helping section 31 and gives his big Ceasar can do no wrong speech. And 2) being ironically in the final arc when he's playing darts with Miles and complaining about how section 31 has wormed its way into the federation.

Like the actual words he uses are totally fine its his DELIVERY. Like he sounds like a highschool drama student and not a very good one at that.

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Honestly this fic works no matter who gets paired with whom.

Garak/Bashir and Dukat/Sisko - an instant classic, no notes.

Garak/Sisko and Bashir/Dukat - someone will be murdered, everyone will be a suspect.

Garak/Dukat and Bashir/Sisko - awkwardness and sweetness abound, and then someone will be murdered.

What if I write a fic where For some reason Bashir, Garak, Sisko and Dukat all have to meet with some aliens who for some cultural reason demand only to speak with people who have a partner.

And Garak and Julian are like, a little too eager to method act through the whole thing, all over and dotting on eachother and stuff (while still keeping on arguing on the daily of course).

And Dukat immediately jumps to pretend that Sisko is his husband, completely excited "don't worry I've got this" and takes the lead in presenting him as his enjoined and gushing about all the good qualities he has and when they met this and that and never leaving Benjamin any personal space, and Sisko is just smiling with his teeth gritted asking to god or the prophets or the universe itself to get him out of there please.

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I definitely understand the desire to see more of this, and I agree that it would be a great things to see, but I think the show is, and most likely always will be, hindered by the fact that most shows are set in a workplace. Unless both siblings work in the same place (Quark and Rom at the start of DS9, Michael and Spock) then those relationships will always be for, at most, a few episodes, usually only one or two. You'd need to have a show like DS9 but with more civilian families on the main cast, or main cast-adjacent.

I was thinking about how Quark & Rom and Michael & Spock are the two most compelling sibling dynamics in Star Trek to me, and then I realized that there’s basically no competition. Like, when it comes to well-developed relationships between siblings that are shown over the course of multiple episodes… there just aren’t any others in the entirety of Star Trek.

There are some interesting sibling relationships shown in one or a couple episodes (like Ezri and her brothers, Travis and his brother, Saru and his sister, Tendi and her sister, plus a few others), but they’re not focused on over a long period of time so I don’t really count them. I guess there’s technically Worf and his biological brother, but I don’t count that either since they weren’t raised together. Theoretically the relationship between the Kirk brothers in SNW could become well-developed, but as it stands so far I wouldn’t describe them that way.

What Star Trek really needs is more well-developed sibling relationships.

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Let us consider the goals involved.

Don't let anyone realise you are smarter than you seem. (Check)

Don't fully piss off the already demanding ambassadors (Check)

Don't let them love you so much Sisko feels motivated to give you this job all the time (Check? Until the fire this seemed to be working?)

Bolian Ambassador: [Sisko is busy] With What?

Julian: the uh...recalibration...sweep

Vulcan Ambassador (excitedly): what are you recalibrating?

Julian: uh... everything!

this man is supposedly a super genius lmao

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I understand that churning out 26 episodes back to back must have been like running a marathon at sprinting speed, but every time I see this scene I REALLY wish that the show had made Dukat and Bashir develop their own hate-filled relationship. They had clashed once before with Rugal so it could have been built on.

Instead Dukat - who never seems to forget any other grudge - completely leaves Bashir off his radar for the rest of the series. The loss of potential bothers me.

4x01 - Way Of The Warrior

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It is easily down to interpretation, but I always assumed that traveling for help was more dangerous than staying still due to damage caused by the ionic storm. From the script it took a full day for his dad to bring help back so it must have been a hell of a hike. As horrible as it was to go through that, I'm not convinced bringing him along and leaving the girl alone would have been the correct move. Julian never mentions it again so we have no idea how his parents helped or failed to help him cope with what happened afterwards.

"When I was ten, my father was a Federation diplomat on Invernia Two. One day, when we were out on a remote part of the planet, we were hit by a massive ionic storm. While we were waiting it out, we found an Invernian girl about my age who was sick. After the storm cleared, my father went for help, but it was too late. I sat there and watched her die. The next day when he returned, his guide told us that we could have treated her with a simple herb that was growing all around. I could have saved her life."

I feel like we don't talk about the fact that child Julian was left alone by his father at a campsite on an alien world with a sick girl who he watched all night and she died. He was what, 10? And watched the little girl die? Why don't we talk about this more?

Classic Star Trek trauma ignoring.

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i think in crossover, the intendant should've gotten a lil weird with bashir and tried to find his double too so that she and kira could have matching toys

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I think Bashir could grant Dukat forgiveness if he thought Dukat was sincere in his repentance, but Dukat's own nature means he doesn't believe he has done anything he needs to be forgiven for. It would be a show, and Bashir would see through it.

Garak on the other hand, hates himself rather a lot, despises his sentimental weaknesses, but retains them almost desperately at the same time. He's not asking Bashir to forgive something as mundane as murder, but rather to forgive him for being himself - a secretive, difficult, sentimental fool who might one day get Bashir killed because he can't help but care about this human in spite of all the enemies that he's made who would use that feeling to hurt him.

Hi! Watching The Wire for like the 8th time, there is a thing I've been wondering about: when Julian offered forgiveness for whatever Garak did, is it more him being a good doctor for his patient, or more because of their Not-Friendship? Like ... how far would he go to be a good doctor, would he offer the same to, say, Dukat? (Does he trust Garak enough to not let whatever Garak did stop their Not-Friendship by then?)

(Also thx for the episode and all the DS9 and Andromeda)

I think it's a bit of both, maybe 50/50? That said, I don't think any amount of Good Doctoring would let Bashir forgive Dukat. 99% of the rest of his patients, maybe, depending on how vital he deemed it for their recovery. But I doubt he could stomach forgiving Dukat, at least not with any degree of sincerity.

I guess the real question for me is whether Bashir would've offered this forgiveness for Garak if they didn't have a relationship? And the real answer is... Maybe? But the relationship made it easier.

Your interpretation may vary.

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I may be in the .00000001 here but I'm shocked no one has ever done a rare pair of Bashir with Shakaar.

On the surface they have zero in common. I doubt Shakaar, although clearly not a "lumbering field hand" as jealous Dukat would have it, has lengthy literary debates over lunch. But neither do Bashir and O'Brien and they make their friendship work. Shakaar grew up fighting for his people seeing Prophets know what. Bashir, well, we all know he had his struggles with the augmentation, but it's not the same.

However, if they ever had put Bashir in an extended scene with Shakaar, Bashir would have the same chemistry that he did with another Bajoran, Vedek Bareil. Someone wrote on this blog that Siddig has insane chemistry with his male co-stars. He'd probably have done fine with Duncan Regehr, who is incredibly charismatic.

Shakaar and Bashir are both idealists. I actually see Season Six and Seven Bashir as much like Shakaar when we first meet him. Watching all his comrades die but still ready to take up arms to fight for what is right. They both have a great sense of humor...and neither of them can stand Kai Winn.

Now, it's my head canon that they wouldn't work together beyond a brief sex-pollen-type liaison, but it would be interesting to watch the Federation doctor and the ex-revolutionary hero hook up. Thoughts?

I think that this pairing is so rare because I can't remember if they ever spoke. This is not to say you are wrong - in fact I think your insights are laser focused and extremely accurate - just that most people need a scene to use as a bouncing off point and didn't really get one.

I could see something happening during Shakaar's station visit where Odo is having complicated feelings about Kira, having Shakaar ask him how well he knows the good doctor and whether Julian is single would make for one awkwardly delightful conversation.

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The few times we see the Pah Wraiths interact with the world they seem extremely comfortable with linear time, WAY more than the Prophets. My personal theory is that the fire caves have actually forced them to experience linear time from the (literally chosen) moment they were put in there, which is one of the reasons why they are so desperate to get back to their 'natural' state in the temple. This would negate the eternal Dukat theory, but on the other hand if he is in (and now always has been in) there, maybe that's why they're so desperate to get out.

Horrific idea. If the Prophets can choose an Emissary, and theoretically restore him to his timeline one day, couldn't the Pah Wraiths who are essentially fallen Prophets do the same?

Sisko returns from his time with the Prophets only to find that Dukat was restored as well and has just been chilling with the Pah wraiths. How do you get rid of a man who could theoretically be restored after being yeeted into lava?

No no no. Please stay dead.

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I love how Bashir just refuses to acknowledge or appease authority he doesn’t respect. He goes to see Tain, an extremely dangerous retired spymaster of whom he is explicitly asking a favour, and is as impertinent as possible throughout the meeting and doesn’t even try to hide his contempt when Tain says he wants Garak to suffer for the rest of his life. He gets chucked in solitary confinement while in a Dominion prison for protesting the guards cutting rations. And he snarks off Sloan while getting interrogated. He always puts honour and principles above self-preservation even when the consequences are or could be dire.

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A resentful old symbiont from a thousand years earlier coming back to wreck Trill's shit would have made for a great episode.

I wonder if there's a pool of gay Trills somewhere that have been exiled for continuing relationships from past lives, and you can try out for one of them if you get rejected by the Symbiosis Commission.

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Can I co-sign this? I want to co-sign this.

I feel like the friendship between Kira and Bashir wasn't explored enough.

Most of the time it seems like people think of Kira as barely tolerating Bashir, but when Tekemy Ghemor dies, it's Julian she goes to when she's sad and vulnerable and Julian who comforts her. When the fake Bareil arrives on the station, Julian bursts onto the bridge demanding the latest gossip on their relationship.

They're comfortable with each other. They're friends! I feel like we don't see that enough.

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BERNARD'S DAY OUT

So I bought Bernard to take to a party, to hold the coins needed for the 'gumball' machines only it's toys instead of gum.

Bernard is easily able to hold the coins and excited to go to the party.

Safety first!

Bernard has arrived! He really likes the party room decorations. They are cute like he is.

He hopes he can have some cake later, as he is washable, I do not foresee an issue with him having a little bit of cake. His favourite princess is Aurora, but he wishes she was wearing her blue dress.

Finally, Bernard's big moment has arrived. Small squishy toys for everyone!!

Bernard has had a big day, time to get some much needed sleep.

Thank you, @bashircore for bringing Bernard into my life.

I feel so completely lost for social media stuff

I keep seeing other shop people on insta making new stuff and selling things meanwhile I can’t get any people to see my posts let alone buy anything anymore,, I was doing well for a while but this last month has been absolutely terrible

I should be excited bc i have a new sample thing arriving soon but instead I just feel dread bc i know nobody’s gonna be able to see it or want it like the coin purses

My whole life has been spiralling downwards lately and as the shop has gotten less attention it’s just weighed me down even more

Still haven’t sold anything in the physical shop either and i have no idea why, am i just bad???