Ezri and Bashir (Old Spoilers)

[Thestral]

Fearful Symmetry implies this too, just a bit, when Bashir has a moment of wistfulness towards Ezri.

Oh?

Nice! Hey...is it, by any chance, along the lines of James Bond's reunion with his long-lost love Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies? ("Tell me Julian, do you still sleep with a phaser under your pillow?")

Sans Paris's slapping Bond's face, of course....

Hey, here's a question...after the break up, do Bashir and Ezri ever share any scenes, or is it strictly proffesional?

As others have said, their interaction thus far post-breakup is strictly professional. The allusion I made to Fearful Symmetry comes on page 126 of side 1. Bashir is looking at Smiley and Mirror-Keiko.

"Soul mates in any universe, he mused, carefully reining in the impulse to cast a wistful glance at Ezri Dax."

 

[MNM]

Also...forgive me if I'm wrong, but also wasn't it implied that part of Ezri's reason for breaking it off was that she thought Julian was still using his feelings for Jadiza as well.

I've happened to have just finished reading that story, and in all honesty, while I like Dax, that reasoning seemed very out of the blue. It seemed more like an arbitary decsion had been taken to end that relationship between the two characters rather than because it occured naturally.

Suddenly she is bothered by the fact he saw Jadzia in her eyes many books ago (one of the avatar ones I think?) and even implies it was his fault in that he caused that to happen, which is not how I remember reading that instance, as Bashir if I recall, was surprised and upset by it.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I've happened to have just finished reading that story, and in all honesty, while I like Dax, that reasoning seemed very out of the blue. It seemed more like an arbitary decsion had been taken to end that relationship between the two characters rather than because it occured naturally.

Exactly. Frankly, The Voyages of Imagination article on this story has Mike and Andy claim that they had intended to "explore" exactly what the Ezri-Bashir relationship was based on...and they expected fans to simultaneously love and hate the "resolution".

While, as I said before, I didn't read the tale yet, this still strikes me as "Wha-where did THAT come from?"

Suddenly she is bothered by the fact he saw Jadzia in her eyes many books ago (one of the avatar ones I think?) and even implies it was his fault in that he caused that to happen, which is not how I remember reading that instance, as Bashir if I recall, was surprised and upset by it.

Yup. Ezri had conjured her up, because she was at the time exploring her past hosts, and she was remembering Jadzia taking the bottom bunk in Bashir's Defiant quarters. Also, Bashir didn't just see Jadzia in Ezri's eyes--Ezri briefly spoke in Jadzia's voice!

When Bashir expressed concerns about bringing another personality into the room, Ezri got defensive, and tried to rebuke him for not "accepting" Dax's other personalities.

Whatever Ezri's reasons for the break-up were...It wasn't because of Bashir's "nostalgia" for Jadzia.



So...I guess either Ezri's been so shook up by the events of Unjoined that it's affected her judgement.

Or...it's something else she's not telling him.

I brought up Tomorrow Never Dies before. Might as well do it again. In that film, it's established that Bond had abruptly broke up with Paris some years ago. When she confronts him about the abrubtness, he at first shrugs it off with, "something came up..."

In a later scene, Paris and Bond face their feelings like so:

Paris asks, "What happened James? Did I get too close...too close for comfort?"

Bond stares at her for a while, and then his lip quivers, and he whispers (as if the word's being forced out of him), "Yes...."

I wonder if that was Ezri's reason, too...did they get too close...too soon?

 

[Jbarney]

Rush,

I have not read any of the DS9 relaunch beyond Unjoined but my impression was that it was a mutual breakup only because Bashir could see the writing on the wall. Ezri came across as acknowledging there were developing problems within the relationship, but circumstances didn't give her the chance to have "the" conversation with Bashir. Which is understandable considering her planet went through a lot in Unjoined. I do get the impression if Bashir had his way they would still be together, but out of respect for Dax/Ezri/Jadzia he understands that if she has moved on, he should too.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Hmm....

But again, I wonder if the events of the tale just shook Ezri up a bit? As in, her given reasons were (without her realizing it) simply a smokescreen for what her subconcious mind actually felt?

After all, an earlier poster has observed that Ezri's reasoning seemed rather faulty--she seemongly blamed Bashir for an incident in Avatar, which the actual sequence strongly implied that Ezri had brought on herself.

But as stated, I have yet to read the tale.