Julian Subatoi Bashir was born in 2341 to Richard and Amsha Bashir. His father was a Federation diplomat, also his great grandmother served in Starfleet. This no doubt influenced Julian to join Starfleet. Julian’s interest in medicine began when he was five when he stitched back on the leg of his beloved teddy bear, Kukalaka he was small for his age, physically awkward, and not very bright. He did not fully understand what was happening, although he did realize that he was steadily falling behind his classmates. He knew he was a disappointment to his parents.
Julian had good reason to feel that
way. When he was seven, he was taken to Adigeon Prime to undergo genetic
re-sequencing. An illegal
treatment. The now genetically enhanced Julian became a star pupil and never
looked back. He excelled in everything he tried. When he was 10 Julian lived on
Invernia ll with his father. During a massive Ionic storm, he came across
a young, sick, Invernian girl of about his age while waiting out the storm.
Richard went in search of help, but by this time it was too late. Julian sat
there, watching helplessly as the girl died. When his father returned the next
day with a local, the guide told them they could have saved the girl with a
simple herb that grew everywhere. The fact that he could have saved this
young girl's
life, had a profound impact on the young Julian and this was when he decided
he would be a Doctor. For a time Bashir's passion was tennis; indeed, he felt
he was good enough to make a career out of it. After entering his first
major competition, his opponent served first and Julian heard the ball
bounce past him. The computer announced it was good, and he knew his talent defiantly
lay with medicine.
Even as an
adult; Bashir continues to feel hurt that his
parents were so ashamed of him as a child that they were willing to risk
imprisonment in order to change him. The older he got his illegal genetic
enhancements made him feel more and more resentful of his parents. As an adult he
sees his parents less and less. During these years Bashir hides the facts
of his DNA re-sequencing, he often hears people talk about the genetically
engineered as misfits. He dreams about meeting someone like himself, artificially
enhanced, but also capable of living a normal life. The young man is convinced
that this certain some one would be his perfect mate. However true love seems to
elude him.
2359 Julian Joins Starfleet Academy. Medical was his first choice and paediatrics in particular, he was first in his class. He also took engineering classes, focusing mainly on Starship operations; he found these quite informative, but his claim to some little knowledge serves only to annoy his friend and colleague on board Deep Space Nine, Chief Engineer Miles O'Brien. However this skill does come in handy and actually saves Miles life on an away mission.
While At medical school, Bashir falls in love with a ballerina named Palis Delon. She was beautiful and brilliant. Julian watched her performances and was amazed by her grace. They were crazy about each other, and he often thought to to himself how lucky he was he had found the perfect woman. The relationship was destined not to last. When Julian graduated from school, Palis's father, the top administrator for a medical complex in Paris, offered him a job. He promised the young doctor he would be chief of surgery within five years. Bashir came very close to giving up his career in Starfleet for the job and Palis, but he didn’t. Sometimes, as the years pass, Julian wonders if he will ever find someone that good again.
Julian's decision not to marry Palis came from his belief that
it wouldn't be fair to a family, when the husband and father is in Starfleet.
Bashir
believes a career in Starfleet carries the risk of constant danger, which would
place an unfair burden of worry upon his family. This is a common attitude among
Starfleet career officers, and such sentiments were likely recorded in the
diaries that Julian kept while at medical school.
Bashir graduated second in his class in 2367. Despite being placed
second, Bashir's high qualifications still gave him the choice of any job in
Starfleet, and he chooses to practice frontier medicine, in the furthest reaches
of space. In 2369, he accepts a posting to the isolated space station Deep Space
Nine, where he thinks heroes are made. Dr. Julian Bashir wants to be a part of
this, and perhaps prove something to others, and to himself.
Julian Bashir is one of the most promising officers ever to graduate| from Starfleet Academy. Even as a student, he excels and earns a formidable reputation, and many are surprised that he only finishes second in his year, behind Dr. Elizabeth Lens.
Bashir's extraordinary abilities earn him the assignment
of his choice, and he picks Deep Space Nine. The combined challenges of the
reconstruction of Bajor, and the medical needs of the hundreds of races that
pass through the station, give Bashir ample chances to display his abilities.
Within three years, his ground breaking work in bio-molecular replication wins
him a nomination for research grant and the prestigious Carrington Award. At 30,
Bashir is the youngest person ever nominated for the award, which is normally
used to acknowledge a lifetime of achievement.
Bashir publishes widely, and his work is read throughout Starfleet. Bashir's sometime rival, Dr. Lens, is particularly impressed by his immunization project on Bajor. And, during his time on Deep Space Nine, he develops several innovative treatments. One of the most significant achievements involves his completion of Nathaniel Teros' work on Neuro muscular adaptation.
For all his fame and his obvious abilities. Dr. Bashir has chosen not to go into pure research, but to remain as a Starfleet doctor. Bashir's reputation is so great that Starfleet Medical chooses him as the model for the Long-term Medical Holographic Program, a holographic doctor that will serve numerous subspace communication stations, research outposts, and long-range exploratory vessels for decades to come. Bashir's appearance and bedside manner will live on into eternity.
Most of the crew on Deep Space Nine consider Julian Bashir
to be open and talkative, but he very rarely discusses his parents. He even asks
Lewis Zimmerman, , not to contact them in the process of building a
psychological profile for the EMH.
engineering was not illegal. For the next two months, his genetic structure was manipulated to accelerate the growth of neuronal networks in his cerebral cortex, a process called accelerated critical neural pathway formation. His IQ jumped five points every day for two weeks. His hand-eye coordination, reflexes, vision, stamina, completely altered 'for the better'. The only remaining similarity between the young 'Jules' Bashir, was
his name.
Bashir is not a superman, but his hand-eye coordination is
quite exceptional, and has made him a star tennis player and unusually talented
at darts. But Julian feels no gratitude for the gift his parents bestowed on
him, and prefers to maintain his distance. Although the genetic treatments made
him a star pupil, he has always felt he was a fraud. Amsha Bashir makes it clear
that it was love, not disappointment, that motivated the DNA resequencing, and
Richard Bashir takes responsibility for the crime of having his son 'enhanced'
by serving two years in a minimum security prison.
Bashir now thinks nothing of revealing his ability to calculate time and statistics as accurately as a computer. Julian's social life continues much as it did before. His friends continue to indulge his holo-suite eccentricities, friends even rally behind him. Most importantly, Bashir does not lose Chief O'Brien as his best friend. O'Brien's first thought when he accidentally learns Julian's secret is. The two men continue to share holo-suite programs, and enjoy games of darts or racquet ball although O'Brien begins to make his friend stand further away from the dartboard when they play.
In fact, Julian continues to face many of the same
problems as his non-enhanced colleagues. When he is invited, along with the rest
of Worf's friends, to the Klingon's bachelor party, the doctor's genetic
enhancements do little to help him cope with the endurance trials of Kal'Hyah
any better than his ordinary human friends. Bashir also fails to save Jadzia
Dax's life after she is attacked by a Pah-wraith possessed Gul Dukat, although
he does save the Dax symbiont.
