Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
GoldenEyepremiered 30 year ago , andStar Trek : Deep Space Nineimmediately followed with 1995 ’s second great James Bond - style adventure . kick off in the twilight of 1995,Star Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 4was a piano reboot that galvanized the spinoff led byCaptain Benjamin Sisko(Avery Brooks).DS9season 4 added Lt . Commander Worf ( Michael Dorn ) to the mould en route to making Klingons the time of year ’s big bad and give up Graeco-Roman episodes like the heartwrenching " The Visitor " and the Ferengi drollery romp " Little Green Men . "
On November 17 , 1995,GoldenEyehit movie dramatics in the United States , successfully bring the august James Bond dealership into the 1990s . Pierce Brosnan immediately proved to be an ideal and popular 007 , andGoldenEyewas a box - role bang , sack up over $ 356 - million worldwide . Along with introducingJudi Dench as M , and pit 007 against iconic scoundrel Alec Trevelyan AKA 006 ( Sean Bean ) and Xenia Onatopp ( Famke Janssen),GoldenEyewas the secure of the Brosnan Bond movie . ButStar Trek : Deep Space Ninealso had James Bond fever .
Star Trek: DS9’s “Our Man Bashir” Was 1995’s Other Great James Bond Story After GoldenEye
“Our Man Bashir” Premiered Just 10 Days After Pierce Brosnan’s First Bond Movie
Star Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 4 , episode 10,“Our Man Bashir , " was a surprising and loving tribute to James Bond and the 1960s undercover agent genre . Written by Ronald D. Moore and mastermind by Winrich Kolbe , DS9 ’s Bondian shoo-in was a holosuite escapade where Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) take on through his 20th - hundred spy phantasy with Elim Garak ( Andrew Robinson ) in tow . A transporter accident ports otherStar Trek : Deep Space Ninecharactersinto Bashir ’s phantasy , making Julian ’s role - playing game deadly and all too real .
Julian Bashir ’s an augment , a doctor , and a secret agent , and his best Star Trek : Deep Space Nine episodes capsulise these aspects of his character .
Premiering just 10 days afterGoldenEye , on November 27 , 1995 , " Our Man Bashir " delved into classic James Bond tropes , with Captain Sisko cast as the nefarious Dr. Hippocrates Noah , Lt . Commander Jadzia Dax ( Terry Farrell ) as Dr. Honey Bare , andMajor Kira Nerys(Nana Vistor ) as the Soviet spy who loved Bashir , Anastasia Komananov . UnlikeGoldenEye , which was a modern rendition of James Bond , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine’s"Our Man Bashir " was firmly set in the swinging 1960s ' iconography of Sean Connery ’s 007 movies .
DS9’s James Bond Story Set Up Dr. Bashir’s Section 31 Future
Dr. Bashir’s Love Of Espionage Got Section 31’s Attention
" Our Man Bashir " was a breakthroughStar Trek : Deep Space Nineepisode forDr . Julian Bashirand Alexander Siddig . Previously , the characterisation of Dr. Bashir prove problematic , and fan answer was tepid towards Julian . However , " Our Man Bashir " gaveDS9 ’s son genius doctor a new sheen of edification . Bashir ’s James Bond hitch made Julian cool for the first meter , and a light bulb went off forStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s writers on how to indite for Dr. Bashir and Alexander Siddig going forward .
Bashir ’s lovemaking of undercover agent guile bled into DS9 ’s creation of Section 31 .
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 5 , Dr. Bashir was revealed to be genetically heighten , explaining his preternatural intelligence . Bashir ’s sexual love of undercover agent craft bled intoDS9 ’s institution of Section 31 , the insidious black ops federal agency that sought to recruit Julian into their rank and file . Though Dr. Bashir did n’t join Section 31 by the end ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , there have been hints that becoming a Federation spy may be Bashir ’s destiny . And it all commence when Julian assume a black tie to become Julian Bashir , Secret Agent , in " Our Man Bashir . "
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