#Doctor Bashir

[bribinart]

so uh guess what i watched

(prints!)

[lithiumseven]

Garashir as text posts!

[peachviz]

just guys bein dudes

[multiverserift]

An often overlooked aspect of character and relationship building is the question: "How do the characters adress each other?"

It's a surprisingly interesting facet of DS9. I think Worf not once calls Quark by his name, it's always "the Ferengi".

Rom calls him only "Quark", I think, once or twice in the whole run of DS9. Otherwise it's always "Brother" or "my Brother". While Quark uses "my Brother" mostly derogatively, but when things get ugly, he says "Rom!"

[For all people reading this not familiar with Star Trek, another example: When Dean Winchester says "Sammy" you know things are escalating horribly.]

If someone knows an instance where Worf calls Quark by his name, let me know. I am looking for this for years. Maybe I heard it in the german translation.

Sisko is always called "Ben" by colleagues, which looks like an intimate name. Until you realize that he is called "Benjamin" only by his most intimate familiar, Dax. And mockingly and twisted, by Dukat. His full name is his pet name, while the abbreviated version is his more distanced, regular used name. Awesome detail.

Odo even mocks Kira for being interested in Chief O'Brien. Excuse me, I mean "Miles" 😉 In my own comic (not Star Trek related, I'm not brave enough for that), I, as the time of writing this, have only three characters on screen. And I put a lot of thought into the question: How do they adress each other? And even made a bit of fun of it.

Why am I telling you all this? Because Garak and Bashir have a very interesting dynamic. Firstly, there is not one instance of Bashir calling Garak "Elim". Garak calls him "Doctor Bashir" or the classic "my dear Doctor".

Now when we imagine Garak telling Julian how he actually doesn't like him (at all!) and then he says "ok bye. Julian. wink wink 😉" I don't really know if it would feel out of character for Garak. Damn, somebody get Andrew Robinson on the phone and pay him to say it.

If Garak does it slowly with a thick, chocolady sarcastic tone and smirk, I think it would work. But it would also make him VERY vulnerable, no matter how he tries to overplay it. Which would be an interesting scene, to say the least. So it would have the need to feel earned.

It would also be an interesting callback to early twink Bashir, hopelessly in need of human(oid) connection. He forcefeeds Kira the "HEY KIRA I'M JULIAN CALL ME JULIAN! SAY IT!!! JUUUUUUUUULIAN!" stuff very early on. At the end of the Julian and the Federation Ambassadors-Episode, they respect him and call him Julian.

So Garak denying him that indulgence is an interesting trait. And if you're still reading this with me, maybe you agree on that. It's important to notice how our characters adress each other.

Garak denies Julian the un-formality of the first name (what Julian desperately craves), and would propably be shocked or even angry in return, if Julian himself called him "Elim".

What I'm saying it, it would be a big deal. Closing a speech with "Julian" could break that delicate balance and dynamic. Maybe it would work. Maybe it wouldn't.

I would love to hear what Siddig or Andrew think about the question. Or anyone other than the voices debating this in my head. Do you have other examples for this?

[red-cicada]

at first I wanted to draw them in Valentino's fall/winter 1992 but then I saw Dior's spring 1998 and decided to do a 1920s look instead.

[noxequusart]

[magpieandpossum]

I LOVE THEM I just adore them so much….they’re my little lab rats….also this is my first time drawing garak so please be patient with me :(

[mrmistopher]

Watching DS9 for the first time. Can confirm, Garak is, in fact, THAT horny for Bashir.

[onwhatcaptain]

HAPPY -317TH BIRTHDAY TO JULIAN BASHIR!!!! 🎂🎉

[annegris]

I love how when I first saw Doctor Bashir I was like, "okay, such an adorkable character", and by the end of the whole series (just finished watching Extreme Measures) I have so much respect for him it needs an apartment of its own. If you had to re-read the previous sentence, I apologize, my brain has temporarily turned to mush, so words are not exactly my forte at the moment. My heart is regularly freaking bursting with love for him because he is so kind and so dedicated and so, I don't know, just good. So, yeah, the feelings hardly fit inside me, you know.

[y2krave]

Practicing drawing them and my hand slipped 🫢

[dusty-cobweb]

i like to think julian can hold his breath for a long time due to his augmentations so whenever he wants some quiet or space to think he’ll just lay facedown in a holo-pool.

other people don’t know he can healthily do this though so when miles comes in, asking about some type of access code or whatever, and sees julian motionlessly bobbing in the water he just assumes the worst.

o’brien is blubbering because oh fuck his best friend is /dead/. tears prick at his eyes, his breathing is labored, hands shaking as he goes to com in for medical personnel.

and then julian just rolls over like one of those gas station hot dogs and o-brien actually cries out in relief, which finally gets the CMO’s attention.

anyway, that’s the story of how julian learned that pseudo-drowning yourself where people can just walk in is not the best idea

[toastandcheesea]

before and after meeting garak

[tboyautism]

excuse me. i need your help. you need to kill me. ive been turned into a white action figure by rick berman, the wicked witch of socal. im only two strips of latinum. thank you sir. sweet release.

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

I love Julian Bashir

[geekysteven]