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Julian
"Subatoi" Bashir
2341 Earth Starfleet Academy, 2359-Medical school, 2369 Lieutenant Human Chief Medical Officer Chief Medical Officer Active duty |
***Starfleet
Biographical File
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.
Julian
was born with serious learning disabilities and did poorly at early school,
when he was six years old
his
parents took him to Adigeon Prime, where he underwent genetic resequencing.
The procedure illegal
under
Federation law greatly enhanced his intellectual and physical abilities.When
Julian had learned what
his
parents had done, he began to feel unnatural, as if he where an artificial
created replacement for an
defective
child. Bashir's parents went to great lengths to conceal this alteration,
until their secret was
uncovered
in 2373 by Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, who was send to the station to work together
with Bashir on
the
creation of the LMH "long term medical holographic doctor" which would
have the body of Bashir wasn't
it
for the genetic alteration which dismissed him from sharing this honour
of becoming immortal.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr.
Bashir continues to rack up an impressive record in medicine, both in the
research
lab and in the field.
SF
Medical was 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.