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Biographical Data:
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 later 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. 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 Captain Benjamin Sisko CO 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.
Professional Assessment UPDATE:
Report of Starfleet Medical, Stardate 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.
Personal Note:
Captain Benjamin Sisko - Stardate 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.
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
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