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PERSONNEL FILE: Bashir, Julian, M.D.
Played By: Alexander Siddig
Rank: Lieutenant
Current assignment: Chief Medical Officer, Deep Space
Nine
Full Name: Julian Subatoi Bashir
Year of birth: 2341
Education: Starfleet Academy and Medical School, 2359-2369
Marital status: Single
Office: Infirmary, DS9 Promenade
Starfleet Career Summary
2369 -- With brevet rank of lieutenant junior grade, assigned
as
CMO to Deep Space Nine under Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko
2372 -- Promoted to lieutenant
Psychological Profile:
Report of Starfleet Counselor Telnorri, Bajoran Sector
Although medically brilliant, Bashir has come a long way in his
personal development and maturity since arriving among the first
Starfleet contingent at Deep Space Nine, his first post-Academy
assignment, at age 27 on SD 46390.1. Bashir first recalls wanting
to be a doctor at age 5, when he sewed up his teddy bear Kukulaka
as his first "patient." Five years later, while living on Invernia
II where his father, a Federation diplomat, was stationed, a massive
ionic storm caused the needless death of a same-aged native girl;
it was an incident which he credited as his first real push to
study medicine - though not before overcoming a childhood fear
of doctors. Their seeming power over life and death led him to
break the mystery by becoming one, when he realized he just wanted
to help people. Even so, he seriously considered a career in tennis
before realizing he was no pro. He was a star athlete in the sister
sport of racquetball, though, and later played on the Academy
team. Both Bashir's parents were still alive in 2370.
Bashir chose a medical career with Starfleet over his one true
love in life to date, the ballerina Palis Delon, and the chance
to be a chief of surgery in Paris within five years at the medical
complex her father headed. He still sometimes regrets it, but
he's not spoken to her since he left Earth. One of his forebears,
a great-grandmother Whatley, was in Starfleet. At Starfleet Academy,
where the required reading helped him recognize the so-called
mirror universe instantly, one friend was an Andorian, Erib. He
also studied meditation with Isam Helewa. In medical school, Bashir
kept diaries revealing his fear of failure, his drive to graduate
at the top and to have a career in Starfleet. He had designed
a candy bar in med school whose nutritional value was even higher
than that of Starfleet combat rations; interestingly, he was first
in his class in pediatric medicine. With natural energy and stockiness,
Bashir was a star player in racquetball, serving as captain of
the Starfleet Medical School team when it won the sector championship
his last year there in 2368-69; in the finals he defeated a Vulcan.
A trick question during orals at Starfleet Medical about ganglia
dropped him to class salutatorian - but it was good enough to
net him his prized DS9 assignment: heading for the "frontier"
where heroes are made. The slip-up allowed Elizabeth Lense to
finish first, later confiding she envied his long-term post. She
had always confused him with an Andorian when mis-introduced.
Among the DS9 personalities, Bashir was immediately drawn to the
Cardassian clothier Garak, hitting it off immediately with the
former spy and his air of mystery. In ongoing debates at their
weekly Replimat lunches, he discusses comparative literature,
drama, philosophy and politics. A year Bashir saved his life,
confirming his former spy career in ending Garak's toxic build-up
caused by the shock of breaking dependence on the pleasure endorphins
released by an altered pain-immunizing cranial implant. He braved
meeting former Obsidian Order chief Enabran Tain to get the Cardassian
medical data needed to synthesize new leukocytes in time. His
green cockiness and casualness at times has especially annoyed
the less patient veterans like Kira and O'Brien. Under the effects
of Lwaxana's Zanthi Fever he developed a crush on Kira - perhaps
due to a latent attraction. He and O'Brien did gradually form
a bond, helped along by his saving O'Brien's life; the chief even
calls him Julian as he'd once requested. They played 70 games
of racquetball in the first two months Molly and Keiko left for
the Bajor survey in 2371; after 106 games their sport of choice
becomes the simpler setup of darts. Still, he's a poor lunch debate
substitute for Garak. When he feels his old Starfleet Medical
rival Elizabeth Lense has snubbed him, he got drunk with O'Brien
and sang "Jerusalem." In 2372 he wrote a holo-program for he and
O'Brien, role-playing RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain during
Earth's World War II.
Bashir's earnestness was not mistaken with Dax, for whom he developed
a crush en route to DS9. He ignored her aloofness and even patient
amusement and for a while misjudges Sisko, feeling him a fellow
suitor. Though that crush lingered for some time - he loaned her
the diaries he kept in medical school so she might understand
him better - he eventually developed a strong fond friendship
for her. The hardest act he's faced was cutting Jadzia's link
to Dax at gunpoint and forwarding the symbiont to Verad, its hijacker,
while frantically keeping Jadzia alive afterward against all odds
- including a dressing-down of his Klingon guard. He later saved
her again, taking the risk with Sisko to uncover the Joran Belar
scandal at the Symbiosis Commission on Trill. Echoing other single
career officers, he feels marriage only leaves behind a family
destined unfairly to worry about him on duty. Significant romantic
encounters, aside from his "true love" of the ballerina Palis
Delon, included a brief but warm affair with the Elaysian Ens.
Melora Pazlar in 2365 and an ongoing current relationship with
Leeta, a Bajoran Dabo girl at Quark's. His was the body kidnapped
by dying Kobliad criminal Vantika to house his consciousness,
and after a usually fatal telepathic assault from a Lethean, he
fought through a resulting coma back to consciousness with an
hallucination peopled with his friends to represent personality
aspects. He's watching his weight at the time of Dax's zhian'tara
in late 2370.
He considers himself a history buff but is not big on 21st-century
Earth, calling it too depressing. Though an aficionado of food
such as Klingon racht, even alive, and Vulcan plomeek soup; he
doesn't like beets. He once saw a "memorable" exhibit of Seyetik's
huge murals on Ligobis X and has learned about Bajoran music since
arriving on DS9. Urged on by Garak, he has tried Cardassian literature
but finds it boringly predictable - including Cardassian enigma
tales, as opposed to Terran mysteries. He also likes live theatre,
but feels human plays of the last century are in decline. Tennis
is his favorite sport, even though he played racquetball in college,
and still does with O'Brien, as well as darts. He also loves puzzles.
Professional Assessment: Report of Starfleet Medical:
Bashir's accomplishments as a young doctor, much less Starfleet
officer, are summed up by his Carrington Award nomination in 2371
- the youngest in its history - for his "audacious and groundbreaking"
bio-molecular replication work. Bashir reportedly tried valiantly
not to expect to win despite the best well-wishes, feeling himself
far too young to win a career-recognition award. Despite that,
he had worked on an acceptance speech. He is cool in a medical
crisis and will firmly take charge; he keeps a medical kit by
his bed and won a commendation for his rescue of three ambassadors
touring the wormhole area during a fire. He was close to discovering
his own cure for the aphasia virus before succumbing, forensically
discovered the secret of Ibudan's cloning, and wasn't fooled by
a death-faking parasitic infection. Sometimes, though, his medical
skills may go to his head. Other medical accomplishments include
opening the hospital of Bajor's first but short-lived Gamma Quadrant
colony and bringing to life the once-discredited theory of neuromuscular
adaptation. His paper on immuno-therapy applied to a case study
of T-cell anomalies on Bajor was also impressive.
Professional Assessment UPDATE:
Report of Starfleet Medical, SD 50500:
Dr. Bashir continues to rack up an impressive record in medicine,
both in the research lab and in the field. We are incredibly impressed
with his action to single-handedly cure the plague on Boranis
III in just three days, and cite him for the assistance offered
at Ajilon Prime early in 2373 during the Archanis Sector skirmishes
with the Klingons. His improvisation to save the life of the O'Brien
baby with a fetal transporter transplant in to the Bajoran major
was also well done and should be a standard for study in years
to come in the field of both transporter applications and cross-species
reproduction. However, we reserve judgment on his controversial
paper proposing that prion replenishment could be inhibited by
quantum resonance effects, and leave it to further study to shed
more if any light on the subject. Even so, Dr. Bashir continues
to prove himself an all-around model of the Starfleet physician,
and should be considered for future upgrades to the EMH development
program at Jupiter Station.
Bashir reported that his medical conscience was wrung out over
medical miracles, experimental drugs and the ethics of prolonging
life when he brought the critically injured Bareil literally back
from the dead long enough to finish the Bajor-Cardassia peace
talks. The doctor wisely drew the line at a full, radical positronic
brain implant.
Personal Commendations:
Report by Capt. Benjamin Sisko, DS9/U.S.S. Defiant
Apart from his medical routine, Bashir trains to be a well-rounded
officer, having taken engineering extension courses at Starfleet
medical and worked to improve his tactical skills, phaser marksmanship
and even melee ability. He can handle standard Runabout scanners,
long-range sensors and the shield controls sight unseen on the
Federation freighter Norkova, and even repaired the computer power
system on the downed Yangtzee Kiang; he also eventually learned
enough to discover the original size of deleted files, and can
write holo-programs. During his second year at the station he
could pilot a Runabout alone, even in combat, and assumed the
Defiant's sensors at Tactical in O'Brien's absence and took over
the sluggish helm to implement evasive patterns. He was wounded
by energy-weapons fire while rescuing the beaten Kira from The
Circle, then led a successful guerrilla band into capturing the
first six "POWs" of the would-be Bajoran coup on DS9. He learned
surveillance techniques from Garak and once tried them out on
Quark while Odo's away. During the initial Dominion invasion scare,
he lead a drill team sweeping the Promenade and saved Odo with
a well-hit phaser to his attacker during the Klingon boarding
attempt.
Personal note: Capt. B. Sisko SD 50415
Though it did not win him any accolades, Dr. Bashir's victory
late last year in controlling the Quickening plague for a planet's
next generation after Dominion bio-tampering was an emotional
milestone. I cannot gauge the effect of this long sobering struggle,
but this CO can tell it took a toll. Julian has been a changed
man since then, and while we have always appreciated his camaraderie
and talents I feel we all have been the better for it. Meanwhile,
it seems I owe my life at least two times over during the past
year to our good doctor: once just for the sport of his "secret
agent" holo-program. And from his subsequent confidences it seems
I don't owe Mr. Garak anything for the help. As for the second
incident, I cannot fault him for preserving my neural system over
the promise of the "visions" I was receiving a few weeks ago regarding
Bajor's future, much less my son Jake for authorizing it. I would
likely have done the same thing for my father, had I been in Jake's
shoes. Still, the passion I felt, the universe I sensed, has been
taken from me, and I feel myself taking it out not on Jake but
on the doctor -- a action I know in my head is wholly without
cause or merit. Still, it is there, and I will have to deal with
it. In no way is it my intent to allow that event to affect our
future dealings, or his opportunities here on the station or in
Starfleet. I would be happy to share his Tarkalean tea anytime.
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