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One thing that is very important to me about Julian Bashir is that he is genuinely pretty perceptive and emotionally intelligent, more so than he sometimes gets credit for in fandom. And this is especially true after the first season or two, when he matures and develops as a character.
There are numerous moments in which he delivers accurate insights into people’s internal states. In “Defiant,” he recognizes that Kira is lashing out because she’s overworked. In “Life Support,” he reads between the lines in his exchange with Winn and recognizes the underlying insecurity that’s guiding her actions, and calls her on it. In “Nor the Battle to the Strong,” he realizes that there’s more going on with Jake’s mood than just the stress of being in battle, and that something’s bothering Jake that he can’t bring himself to voice. In “The House of Quark,” he understands that the reason Keiko’s upset is that she misses having a career. In “Statistical Probabilities,” he realizes that Sarina has feelings for Jack, and uses that to get through to her. Etc.
Furthermore, he’s good at listening and at managing emotionally high-stakes situations. He talks Miles down from suicide in “Hard Time”; he soothes Jadzia’s nerves about going back to Trill in “Equilibrium”; he listens to Kira when she unpacks her feelings about her father’s death and about watching Ghemor die in “Ties of Blood and Water”; in “The Wire,” he gets Garak to trust him in handing over the switch to turn off the implant, and for the most part maintains his composure even with Garak lashing out while in withdrawal and actively trying to get a rise out of him. In all of those situations, he’s pretty calm and measured in his approach, and he knows what to say to these people to get through to them.
Yes, he also has trouble navigating certain social interactions. He has interpersonal habits that grate on people, particularly his mile-a-minute infodumps. And sometimes he’s too absorbed in his own stuff to pick up on the subtext of what’s happening around him - for example, the (hilarious) exchange in “His Way” when Jadzia alludes to the situation with Kira and Odo and he has literally no idea what she’s talking about. But he is capable of quieting down and going into serious mode and listening when the situation calls for it. And when he’s focused on a person or situation, he is good at putting the pieces together and intuiting what’s going on. When he doesn’t do that, and instead rushes to conclusions about what someone else feels or wants - as in the situation with Sarina, or when Ezri’s trying to confess her feelings to him and he assumes she wants to get back together with Worf - it’s often willful obliviousness borne out of emotionally self-protective impulses.
very fond of “julian ends up becoming close friends with over half the people he was trying to hit on” as a character trait for him.
he just strikes me as someone who tends to stay in good standing with most of his exes or casual hook ups and is being invited to their weddings and it’s not awkward in the least because julian is just happy for them.
Concept of Julian Bashir on Cardassia working in hospitals and constantly having like 12 Cardassian babies hanging off of him for the heat that he radiates. Then he goes to pick up dinner after work from a local restaurant and the cashier’s hand lingers when handing him back his food and just kinda holds his hand for a long time marvelling at his warmth. Then he goes home to his lizard man husband who attaches himself like an invasive species as they lie in bed to fall asleep together. Julian Bashir is content.
– You don't know what any of this is about, do you? You work here, you see these people every day, how they live, and you just don't get it. – What do you want me to say? That I feel for them? That they got a bad break? What good would it do? – It'd be a start.
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (1993–1999) ⤷ Paste Tense (parts I & II)
+ bonus
Garak: I have killed again
The various war criminals of DS9: *shock, horror, despair*
……
Garak: I have killed again
Dr Julian Bashir, one of the world’s foremost and most dedicated healers: Lol. Lmao even
Julian Bashir is the perfect modern bisexual twink: spends most of his late 20's pining after an unattainable transgender woman before settling down with an older man who used to work for the CIA.
sorry. cant stop thinking about this
bonus stupidity round:
did somebody say compulsory heterosexuality bashir??
garashir / good luck babe / garak pov
this is the first thing i've edited in a very long time (i think it may have literally been over ten years), im planning on creating a full length edit with cropping, effects, colouring, etc, eventually, this is just a preview for now tbh
Textposts from everyone’s favourite space station😽
Julian Bashir meeting an alternate universe version of himself who still goes by Jules. Jules doesn't fake eye contact as well as Julian. When he speaks, it's mostly in short direct sentences, as few words and as to the point as possible. He can still ramble for an hour on a topic he's passionate about though.
Julian realising in slow horror that Jules is also a doctor. Jules also works for Starfleet. Jules is also stationed on DS9. Jules is friends with his own Garak, who thinks he is delightful and intelligent and interesting. Jules is still friends with a Miles O'Brien who thinks he is a little weird and off putting but will fist fight anyone who talks bad about him. They still play darts and racquetball, though Jules isn't quite as good, he and Miles still treat each other as friendly rivals.
Jules, who is still a diligent and dedicated professional, who takes pride in his work as a doctor, and whose parents were arrested and charged before he ever set foot on Adigeon Prime. Jules, who mended Kukalaka and continued to stitch him up for years to come just like Julian.
The slowly dawning horror Julian has at realising that this is who he might have been, and that Jules is, in fact, fine. He wasn't top of his class, but he's still a damn good doctor. He can't work for three days straight without sleeping, but he's no less dedicated. He's not as physically adept, but he's doing fine. He's loved. He's fulfilled. He's happy.
Julian Bashir isn't sure how any of that is making him feel about himself at all, nor does he know why he finds himself crying himself to sleep that night.
it’s so charming to me that julian is mostly normal and goofy around people but around garak’s powerful homosexual intrigue proximity radius he he becomes hayes code silver screen dandy. Come now my dear mr. garak
Based on Cardassian views on the medical profession (female dominated) and arguing (whore behavior), I think Dukat should have been scandalized to have an alien twink doctor get snippy with him in order to get a blood screening from him.
"And I find you offensive." Okay, here's my arm, man. Whatever you say, beautiful. But I have a wife.
one thing i do find fun about garashir is that due to the schrödinger’s couple state they exist in throughout ds9, you can write about them getting together or having been together for ages and you can set it at more or less any point within the show and it can still be almost completely canon compliant with minimal changes.
some fake screenshots from the deep space nine dating sim that lives in my brain
never getting over the way the very second episode where garak appears establishes immediately that julian is an absolute ride or die idiot for this man.
interrupts his commanding officer in a tense meeting with dukat on the basis of garak alluding to something. wakes his commander up at like 3am to request a runabout without even having asked garak why. only pushes back properly exactly once and then immediately goes back to solving whatever puzzles come out of garaks mouth.
absolutely pathetically infatuated to the point of just tossing all higher brain functions in the bin except interpreting riddles.
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Holosuite date night except it turns into a three-hour lecture on the history of the Cardassian spy fiction genre.
Honestly I just wanted to draw Garak in his Our Man Bashir outfit, and Gracie Anne has had them on my mind lately. <3
Rewatching ds9 means understanding that Odo and Julian are two sides of the same coin. Of freaks. What you mean you two are chasing the two most infamous criminals of the station. Aren't YOU the chief of security and YOU the chief of the medical staff?
Also neither of them want to change Garak or Quark to be better. Like Odo isn't all "I know you can be better and be rehabilitated into society" NO he LIKES to chase and stalk Quark around the station. And Julian isn't better. He is like "omg you were a spy?? And you are exiled??" *twirls his hair* "Have you heard about James Bond?? In fact a have this holo program..."
Freaks the both of them that's why they are my favorites
Edit: as a lot of you pointed out YES they both have madical trauma and father issues and they have been experimented on. We should look into this like what are the odds.
these two screenshots are so artistic and beautiful to me they fill me with so many emotions.
Sooooo guess who started watching Deep Space Nine…
I’m so mentally sane about them, guys.
ive been told to add a disclaimer to this post that i have only seen the first two garak episodes so far but when bashir randomly mentioned him in shadowplay this was all i could think of
DS9 dump
