Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Doctor Bashir, I Presume (1997)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir, LMH

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Quotes 

• Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : Beginning data transferral.

  EMH Mark I : Data transferral? Am I being replaced?

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : You're being supplemented by a new long-term program.

  EMH Mark I : [indicating the LMH]  By him?

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : There. Transfer's complete.

  LMH : Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

  EMH Mark I : Now, that's original. He doesn't even look old enough to be a doctor.

  LMH : If you'd like my advice, you should delete this program. Now that I am here, why would you need an archaic piece of software like him?

  EMH Mark I : [aghast]  Archaic?

• Richard Bashir : All those gifts, all those accomplishments, and you still wanna behave like a spoiled child. Well, you'd better grow up right now, or you're gonna lose everything!

  Dr. Julian Bashir : You mean *you're* gonna lose everything. You're gonna lose your only real accomplishment in this life - me. You said before: I'm your legacy, your proud gift to the world. Well, Father, your gift is about to be revealed, as a fraud. Just like you.

• [last lines] 

  [Bashir and O'Brien are playing darts] 

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Looks like it's your game again.

  Chief O'Brien : What's that? Five in a row?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : At least!

  Chief O'Brien : Wait a minute. You haven't been letting me win, have you?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : [evasively]  What makes you think that?

  Chief O'Brien : You said your hand-eye coordination had been genetically enhanced.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Well, maybe I have been letting you win, a little bit.

  Chief O'Brien : I don't believe it! I don't need you to patronize me! I can play at your level.

  Dr. Julian Bashir : I never said you couldn't.

  Chief O'Brien : Well, play then. Really play.

  [Bashir throws his darts in quick succession. O'Brien surveys the board - Bashir has hit three times bullseye] 

  Chief O'Brien : All right. From now on...

  [he moves Bashir a few steps backwards] 

  Chief O'Brien : ...you play from over here. I play from up here...

  [goes back to his usual spot] 

  Chief O'Brien : If that doesn't work... we'll try a blindfold!

• Dr. Julian Bashir : Jules Bashir died in that hospital because you couldn't live with the shame of having a son who didn't measure up.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : There's no stigma attached to success.

• Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : Dr. Bashir, I presume?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : That's me.

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : I'm Lewis Zimmerman, Director of Holographic Imaging and Programming at the Jupiter Research Station. And I'm here to make you... immortal.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : You used to be my father. Now, you're my architect - the man who designed a better son, to replace the defective one he was given. Well, your design has a built-in flaw: it's illegal.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : What do you want me to do?

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : Just stand there and look like a doctor - if you can.

• Chief O'Brien : Then it's true? You're...

  Dr. Julian Bashir : The word you're looking for is 'unnatural' - meaning 'not from nature'. 'Freak' or 'monster' would also be acceptable.

• [Bashir and Zimmerman are watching Leeta at the dabo wheel] 

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : Who is she?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : Her name's Leeta - my ex-girlfriend.

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : Who broke it off?

  Dr. Julian Bashir : She did.

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : Oh... I like her already.

• LMH : [to his human template]  I hope you're more interesting than you seem. I'd hate to be boring.

  Dr. Lewis Zimmerman : There may be no preventing that.

• Dr. Julian Bashir : [28:36]  I was 6. Small for my age. A bit awkward physically. Not very bright. In the first grade, while the other children were learning how to read and write and use a computer, I was still having trouble trying to tell a dog from a cat, and a tree from a house. I didn't really understand what was happening. I knew I wasn't doing as well as my classmates. There were so many concepts they took for granted, that I couldn't begin to master. But I didn't know how or why. All I knew was that I was a great disappointment to my parents.