What did you think about with Bashir and Quark on TNG?

[Jayson1]

I think Bashir and Data actually had some fun interactions. I like how Bashir was fascinated by Data and was interested in things like if his hair, grew. This was season 1 Bashir so he still had that young naive explorer stuff going on.

Quark amounted to a cameo but it does kind of set up how Thomas Riker semed familiar to some of the DS9 in "The Defiant." with the fact that Quark owed Riker some money. Not sure why Quark had to be guarded by a starfleet security guard just to talk with Riker, because we have seen him talk to people from his quarters or his bar before without any starfleet or Bajoran personal watching over them. I imagine most people on "DS9" have the freedom to what amounts to phone calls.

Jason

 

[Tundra Saint]

I actually hadn't watched DS9 when I watched those episodes, so I wasn't aware they were main characters on another show. Now its one of my favorite parts in those episodes.

 

[LJS1138]

I like the Data/Bashir interactions. Quark didn't grow on me until much, much later in DS9, when he gained some dimensions in character.

 

[Mojochi]

In those early years, Bashir's personality seemed to gel quite well with the TNG dynamic. In a weird way, I think he'd have made a good fit for their ship's doctor

 

[ewoodcourt]

Loved the Bashir and Data scenes - my two favourites hanging out - how could I not!

 

[Qonundrum]

I think Bashir and Data actually had some fun interactions. I like how Bashir was fascinated by Data and was interested in things like if his hair, grew. This was season 1 Bashir so he still had that young naive explorer stuff going on.

Quark amounted to a cameo but it does kind of set up how Thomas Riker semed familiar to some of the DS9 in "The Defiant." with the fact that Quark owed Riker some money. Not sure why Quark had to be guarded by a starfleet security guard just to talk with Riker, because we have seen him talk to people from his quarters or his bar before without any starfleet or Bajoran personal watching over them. I imagine most people on "DS9" have the freedom to what amounts to phone calls.

Jason

Bashir seemed to be more like a Geordi stand-in, shoehorned in for plot contrivances (get someone from there to be on stage with someone from here "just because"). Done in a way that felt like a season 1 TNG scene that hadn't been produced but tripped over by someone who thought it was a good idea to explore. But by season 6, I suppose someone decided to explain Data's periodic change in hair length, which would surely be a carryover from "the more perfect" Lore... the only real problem is, Julian is woefully misused.

I don't remember the Quark scenes, but Bashir always felt out of place in that TNG episode. To compare, DS9 bringing in TNG characters in "Emissary" as the other crossover trope did a better job, which is remarkable given how remarkably unlikeable Picard is when conversing with Sisko. (But it has to be said, Picard used as a conduit for a Prophet was brill!)

To be fair, it's DS9's early season 1 and the characters were too new. But Bashir had already been given a good setup in DS9 that it's hard to believe he's almost as interested as Maddox... Also, Bashir's enjoyment of technology's innards didn't really stick around long enough - unlike Geordi, who seemed to be more suited to Engineering than Helm as he was in Engineering more often and not always replacing the 50,000 or so Chief Engineers that season 1 TNG had paraded then quickly ditched. From day 1 on DS9, his real passions seemed to be able saving others' lives and being out in the middle of a desolate/half-ruined as somehow being a big thrill. Which in a way it was. From his perspective. That seemed more natural to his character. Why wouldn't Julian talk with Beverly? That would have been a lot more compelling, IMHO.

 

[JesterFace]

Bashir and Quark on TNG feels like an in-episode commencial for DS9. Nothing wrong with that though.

 

[somebuddyX]

I always got a kick out of series crossovers like these, or having people like Gul Evek and Admiral Nechayev show up.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I thought Bashir's interaction with Data was a little too forced.

Like, the whole "Does your hair grow" thing. When Bashir asks this, it seems like a completely normal question that anyone might ask Data. Then Data goes out of his way to say "Nobody has ever asked me if my hair grows!" Like the writers couldn't think of a question for Bashir to ask Data that would really seem unique so they had to have Data emphasize the uniqueness to handwave the fact that they couldn't think of a sincerely unique question for him to ask.

Quark's appearance worked a lot better. Though it seems like Riker should have had Quark owe him something based on a game of skill instead of Dabo.

 

[Finn]

Bashir's appearence was forced. He could've taken that thing to Dax's lab. By then, she had the good stuff....