Julian Bashir's Righteous Indignation

[He'sDeadJim]

Wonder if he'd be so pissed at Garak and Sisko for dragging the Romulans into the war as he was at Ross.

If Sisko were in the room I could hear him go all staccato on Bashir's ass, "As you were doctor and STFU, we have a war to win"

 

[StarryEyed]

I've often thought about that myself. I doubt he would be mad at Garak because he knew who and what he was. I imagine he would have been totally disgusted with Sisko though.

 

[Plomeek Broth]

Nobody would listen to Bashir anyway.

I still think Siddig is a dead ringer for the actor who plays Baltar on nuBSG.

 

[Jono]

I doubt he would be since Ross helped Sloan manipulated him. All Sisko did to Bashir was use his authority to overrule Bashir's misgivings at trading that funny gel.

If Bashir gives him lip Sisko can just remind him how Bashir nearly betrayed the entire quadrant to the Dominion with his genetically engineered friends.

 

[Tomalak]

I'm rewatching DS9 again, and each time my appreciation for Julian and Alexander Siddig grows. It's fascinating seeing the irritating, arrogant youth turning into a world weary, genetically modified cynic. That scene in Inter Arma Silent Leges in which he confronts Ross is fantastic. He knows things like this go on, but it still disgusts him.

The last episode I watched is Life Support, which I didn't remember being anything special, but Bashir is fantastic in it, doing his utmost to save Bareil, and his confrontation with Winn is scintillating. I love how he has no fawning respect for authority if it gets in the way of helping his patients.

Bashir seems very prominent in season 3, more so than I remember.

 

[crouteru]

I agree that Bashir became one of DS9's highlights. I hated him in season one. He was a naive, green, arrogant womanizer. Then in season two the character underwent a complete turnaround, and pairing him with O'Brien and Garak resulted in two of the greatest friendships in the series.

 

[Luckyflux]

He was portrayed as a womanizer, but didn't they drop that rather quickly? I remember being excited at the thought of Bashir being another Riker (or Kirk), but then Julian never really hooked up with alot of chicks though. I don't recall seeing him with woman after woman. He got hung up on Jadzia for an eternity....

 

[DevilEyes]

He was portrayed as a womanizer, but didn't they drop that rather quickly? I remember being excited at the thought of Bashir being another Riker (or Kirk), but then Julian never really hooked up with alot of chicks though. I don't recall seeing him with woman after woman. He got hung up on Jadzia for an eternity....

The whole idea seemed to be that he was a "ladies man" who actually didn't have that much success with women... It seemed like a parody of Kirk/Riker, which makes me happy since I always found Kirk/Riker exaggerated irresistibility to women hilariously unconvincing.

Come to think of it, Tom Paris, another "ladies man", also didn't seem to have an awful lot of success until hooking up with B'Elanna and becoming a faithful and devoted boyfriend/husband. They even did jokes like EMH asking Tom for advice on his love life ("Lifesigns"): "Mr Paris, you must have a lot of experience with being rejected by women?"

I wonder if it was a deliberate subversion of the ladies man stereotype. After Riker, did we ever get a womanizing character who wasn't either 1) unlucky in love, or 2) evil?

 

[Luckyflux]

The Outrageous Okana? But he wasn't a main character...

I wish we had more of the Paris/Kim & the Delanne sisters.