Julian Bashir

Yes, he does.

And maybe Bashir a little bit in Deep Space Nine to an extent.

Oh, you reckon? He's so nerdy.

He's so nerdy though, isn't he? So nerdy.

Yeah.

Honestly, Bashir, this is the season where they realize that Bashir's purpose is to serve as a sidekick to other characters, so that that is where he shines, which is not a knock against them.

But it does be that we'll talk about, we'll probably talk about him as much as we talk about Garak.

So that is, yeah, that's just an aspect of this that I think works well.

kind of

like move forward yeah

I don't even know if it's this season but there's a scene just like that with Bashir where he's like I well I isn't it can't you recommend that he should be held on medical grounds and he's like well that's not true make it true

Yeah, I love...

There once was a creepy man named Sloane and a group that's completely unknown.

He interrogated Bashir till the truth was unclear.

Seems like they're not leaving Bashir alone.

Oh, lovely rhyme.

Oh, yes.

Okay, here's my haiku, and it goes a little something like this.

DS9 Spy Hunt.

Sloan puts Bashir through ringer.

Since he's an unjoined Trill, his plan is to take the Dax symbiont from Jadzia and join with it.

Rather than let the criminals kill everybody, Jadzia agrees, and Dr. Bashir does the transfer.

Afterwards, Varad is bold and confident and not at all nebbishy.

And Jadzia has never felt more empty, scared, and alone.

But they're doing a lot here by implication, which is writing strength, and I like that.

Right.

I like that Bashir shows some steel in this one with the Klingon to save Jadzia.

Bashir, especially early on, so often he's that young cad.

yes in the

final season they were just in one episode of deep space nine there was uh the episode Armageddon game where Bashir and O'Brien are helping them to destroy these weapons of mass destruction.

They had the Telani and the Keller and, and they just finished this big war and they were helping destroy these biological weapons.

Wow.

It's called an incident, but it lasted 12 years.

It's a joke from an episode of DS9 where, you know, I guess I think Bashir is talking with Garak and Garak says, well, you know, Cardassians and Klingons, we've always been great friends.

And Bashir's like, well, but what about, you know, the, uh, the whole thing with the betracking evidence is, Oh, an innocent, uh, it was a skirmish.

Michelle looks at him in disdain.

It lasted for 12 years.

Though the story is credited to Catherine Powers, Peter Allen Fields created the character of Garrick, while Andrew Robinson was given certain guidelines, but for the most part, free reign to give the character the flourish and the charismatic traits we all would grow to love.

His first appearance finds him making acquaintance with Julian Bashir over breakfast.

Julian seems befuddled as Garak compliments him up and down and hopes to further their relationship, while Bashir cannot make sense of why this mysterious Cardassian tailor seems so eager to be his friend.

Let's discuss Garak and why this friendship has lived rent-free in the Star Trek community's head for over three decades now.

Let's start with Jodie.

And I think in past prologue with Garrick's introduction, we, we see everything we need to know about him.

It may be this first scene even, and it's just, I it's played so well.

The interaction with Bashir is, is something like from moment one that continues to escalate throughout the series.