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So was the mirror universe Bashir severely learning disabled?

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Reasonable to infer that his mine-dwelling terran parents didn't have him genetically engineered and we know from "Dr. Bashir I presume" that he was born "slow," so it stands to reason that his MU self should have been on the dullish side.

And yes, I am working under the assumption that MU types are genetically identical to their ds9 counterparts - there's every reason to believe this. I suppose this also ties in with the MU lesbianism thread...
 
That would have been cool.
The DS9 MU is utterly un-cool, though(except Sisko doing Dax of course)
 
Perhaps MU-Julian recovered on his own from his 'condition'. Who knows, the RU version might have done that as well, had his parents not interfered.
 
Given what we saw of the MU Bashir, it wouldn't surprise me to learn he wasn't quite there mentally...
 
"Mirror universe" is a misnomer. Not everybody was "opposite." No doubt in some universe, or even many universes, Bashir's parents didn't have him genetically engeneered, but there's nothing to show that this happened in the MU we know about. Maybe he was GE'd but instead of coming out of it enhanced, he came out of it a very damanged individual, like so many of his fellow enhancees
 
I think it's more a matter of how Bashir's parents would have had access to genetic engineering technologies, much less how they would have been able to pay for them.

It seems quite likely to me that MU Bashir didn't receive enhanced abilities. Whether or not his original condition is "recoverable" is a matter for debate, though I believe it's been suggested at least in the novels that Julian himself believes he might at least still be a bit slow without his enhancements.
 
It's also possible that he was enhanced but under different circumstances. Perhaps he was experimented on by Alliance Scientists as a child. Why test on one of their own when you can use humans as lab rats.
 
He was not a very important in the mirror universe. What really did he do in the mirror universe, other then needing a shave?
 
Vic was a human in the mirror universe, with no explanation whatsoever.

That's how much thought they put into the DS9 mirror universe. Credibility is not something it has in abundance. The Bashir thing probably never occurred to them.
 
Now that's just silly... just because Rom identifies the man as Vic doesn't mean he -is- Vic. For all we know he's Felix and Felix modeled Vic after himself. Or he's simply a man that Felix used as a model for Vic in general. It's not like he ever identifies himself as Vic.
 
I always believed that the MU Bashir had more opportunity of recieving genetic enhanced than the regular universe Bashir simply because the whole genetic enhancement being illegal was a Federation thing and the Federation never existed in the mirror universe.

I doubt the Terran empire would have viewed genetic enhancement as something bad if it offered the possbility of a physical/intellectual advantage espcially when other races like Vulcans etcetera where already naturally superior in strength/metal abilities. They would probably have taken the view of if it works great and if it doesnt who cares. Imho its very unlikely that the Terran empire would have enforced a law against genetic enhancement and the Bajoran/Cardassian/Klingon allience doesnt seem likely to have cared about it either. I assume that Bashirs parents got around the whole 'genetic enhancement is illegal' stuff by finding a respectable top notch doctor from outside the Federation who was willing to perform the proceedure.

Presumably the parenst of MU Bashir could have done the same though being lowly Terran slaves they probably had to make do with a drunken disreputable doctor performing back alley medicine which would account for why MU Bashoir seems less intelligent but more aggressive than ordinary Bashir. His parents may have found a way to get him the genetically enhanced help that they thought he needed but that it didnt produce as perfect a result as it did in the regular universe. Im thinking about that episode with the genetically enhanced misfits where Bashir comments how he could have very easily have ended up like them.

Of course all of this is just pure speculation. I was actually kinda disappointed that MU Bashir only got to play such a small role in events as i quite liked what little i saw of him :(
 
Merlanthe said:
Presumably the parenst of MU Bashir could have done the same though being lowly Terran slaves they probably had to make do with a drunken disreputable doctor performing back alley medicine
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Or perhaps they were given a deal: allow the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance to experiment on Julian and they would catch a break, i.e. better slave quarters/rations, not being shot to death by their slave masters, that type of thing. Kind of like what Bajorans who collaborated with the Cardassians would get during the occupation.
 
The logic of the MU should always be taken with a grain of salt. In reality, there's no way that both universes would be even remotely similar or that people from the 24th century should even have duplicates. According to ENT's MU episode, the Terran Empire existed at least from the 20th century. There would have been so many fundamental changes in the timeline from that point that the universe should have been completely unrecognizable.
 
Just that I feel the question is kind of moot since mirror Bashir really shouldn't even exist anyway. That's all.
 
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