Julian Bashir

:You may be looking for the zine Bashir... Julian Bashir.
Dr. Julian Bashir is one of the main characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. is Deep Space Nine's Chief Medical Officer. 
Bashir was portrayed by Alexander Siddig.
 
He's very popular with fanwriters; nostalgia wrote that he's "easily ... the most-written character by far." 
Some fans believe that Bashir is bisexual. Crack Van Overview: DS9 - TrekCrack for Grown Ups (accessed 7 October 2011). And others believe he is trans. "I recognized my experiences and anxieties as a transmasculine person in how Bashir navigated his genetic enhancement. The specific language and stigmas surrounding Augments in Star Trek’s society were so familiar that once I began connecting the dots, I couldn’t easily see Bashir as anything other than a transgender man." -- by Haden Cross on startrek.com. (June 24, 2020) 
Given Bashir's mixed-race heritage,His mother, Amsha Bashir, was played by Fadwa El Guindi, who is Egyptian by birth, his father, Richard Bashir, by Brian George, who has part Indian heritage, and Siddig himself is half Sudanese his popularity perhaps runs counter to the perceived fannish bias against non-Caucasian characters.
From a fan in 2003: 
==Short Canon Description==
Bashir starts out as over-enthusiastic, far more naive and idealistic than most of the rest of DS9's staff. He even has a teddy bear, called Kukalaka. Later, he is revealed to have been genetically engineered as a child. Many fans assume this means that his naivete in earlier outings was just a facade, but this assumption is not required by the retcon.
==Fandom==
===Pairings and Relationships===
Aside from Kukalaka, his teddy bear, his closest associates on the station are the polar opposites, Miles O'Brien & Elim Garak. 
In slash, he's most frequently paired with Garak; Garak/Bashir is by far the most common slash pairing in the DS9 fandom and is still being written. 
Julian has a classic buddies relationship with the married Miles, featuring beer, darts and frequent trips down the holosuites to refight the Battle of the Alamo. There's a large following for the buddies coupling of Bashir/O'Brien (aka BOBslash), which also includes threesomes and love triangles featuring Miles' wife, Keiko and/or Garak. 
BOBslash generally tends to lie on the vignette end of the spectrum, while G/B inspires anything from drabbles to novels. 
Bashir also gets slashed with characters from other Trek series, especially Tom Paris. 
He also has an enduring friendship with Jadzia Dax, which features unrequited love or lust on his side. In the fandom's heyday, there was also an almost equally prominent strand of het which pairs him with Jadzia (usually referred to as Julian/Jadzia to distinguish it from the pairing with Ezri Dax). 
Bashir/Ezri did not find favour among fanwriters, and tends to appear only to be repudiated in favour of the author's favourite brand of slash. Ezri gets to die heroically a fair bit as well.
===Fan Perspectives===
====2000====
Gabrielle Lawson wrote: 
====2010====
Blossom Morphine wrote: 
Butterfly wrote: 
====2011====
The revelation of Bashir's genetic enhancements had a mixed reception among fans. Some felt betrayed by the change, while others welcomed the complexity it brought to the character or felt it explained earlier contradictions in his character. Regann wrote: 
====2012====
More on Bashir's genetic enhancements: 
===Fanon & Tropes===
* Autistic Julian: Very common fanon in the newer wave of DS9 fans. Fans point to his social awkwardness and the genetic enhancement plotline. from Julian Bashir and his possible autism ; archive link (2021) 
* Bashir and his teddy bear, Kukalaka
* Foot Fetish: Due to a throwaway canon line about his previous girlfriend, Palis Delon, having the most remarkable feet, some fans headcanon Bashir as having a foot fetish. 
* Trans Julian: Some fans cite a line in canon that implies he could carry Keiko O'Brien's baby. For example: JULIAN BASHIR in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is TRANS! ♡, Gifset. March 3, 2021. kiranxrys. Archived from the original on April 30, 2023. Some fiction in which Bashir is trans is here. 
* hurt/comfort and angst 
* Bashir's genetically engineered status and his interactions with Section 31
===Fanfiction===
*Converse Symmetry, by Terri Drummonds -- award-winning Garak/Bashir novel (slash)
*Drinking With A Child, by nostalgia & kbk -- Bashir/O'Brien short (slash)
*Exile, by The Hoyden -- Garak/Bashir in an intriguing alternate universe (slash)
*Going Native by Regann -- AU focusing on Bashir's genetic enhancements; G/B (slash)
*Nom de Plume, Roman a Clef & Folie a Deux, by Arcady -- Garak/Bashir series by one of the pairing's best-known exponents (slash)
*A Treatise on the Principles of Relativity, by Mosca -- example of pushing aside Ezri to write slash, here Garak/Bashir though the author is best known for her Bashir/O'Brien (slash)
*Wanting Home, by Brighid -- Bashir/O'Brien futurefic (slash)
*Psychostasia, by ComeChaos - explores Julian's fear of failure, and examines what happens when it's taken to the extreme through an eating disorder. (eventually G/B) (slash) 
*A Dead End, by dilly -- Julian/Ezri short that dissects the relationship (het)
*Intifada, by nostalgia -- dark vignette; Julian/Ezri (het) 
*Internment Camp 317, by Jewels -- Julian-centric ensemble story (gen)
*Oswiecim, by Gabrielle Lawson -- time travel novel, set during the Holocaust. Perhaps the most popular of Gabrielle's abundant gen Bashir writings (gen)
*Remember Remus by Lasher (1998) (gen)
*Sunrise over Eden, by Aelfgyfu -- relationship with his mother (gen)
*Triage, by Paula Stiles -- episode coda which deals with realities of war (gen)
*The Manipulation of Julian Bashir by The Tystie is a gen fic focusing on the aftermath of Dr. Bashir, I Presume. (gen)
*The Viewless Winds is a long, canon compliant story about Bashir's time as a POW in Internment Camp 317. As of May 2020, it is the longest Deep Space Nine work on AO3. (gen)
*Hippocratic Oath, a Julian-centric case story by Gail Eppers (gen)
===Fanzines: Bashir-focused=== 
* Salutatorian (gen) (1996)
* Palpitations! (gen) (1995)
* Doctor Julian Subatoi Bashir, This is Your Life! (gen) (1995)
* Bashir... Julian Bashir (gen) (2001) 
* To the O'Briens With Love (slash, mpreg) (2002)
* Different Odds (Garak/Bashir) (1996)
* Doctor, Tailor, Officer, Spy (Garak/Bashir) (1997-8)
* The Plain and Simple Zine (Garak/Bashir) (1995-6)
* Strange Fits of Passion (Garak/Bashir) (1999)
* Tarkalean Tea (Garak/Bashir) (1996) 
* The Doctor's Journal (non-fiction) (1994)
* Multi-Species Medicine (non-fiction, mid-1990s)
===Vids===
* by ecosine, alt link
===Sample Art===
====1993====
File:Colla.jpg|Angus, from The Collaborator 
====1994====
File:Loyalties.jpg|Angus, from Loyalties 
====1995====
File:Palpatations.JPG| "MAJ" or "MAT", from Palpitations! 
File:Outpost3.jpg|Julie Nosal, from Outpost #3
====1996====
 
File:Lions.jpg|unknown artist, from The Lion's Den 
File:Tark-3.jpg|TACS, from Tarkalean Tea 
 File:STDS9 Salutorian1.jpg| by Stephani D. Etmanski, from Salutatorian #1 
File:Diplomaticreception.jpg|Madalena Mumford, from Diplomatic Reception, also portrays Benjamin Sisko
====1997====
File:Doctortailor1-7.jpg|Anja Gruber, from Doctor, Tailor, Officer, Spy #1
 
====1998====
File:Outpost9.jpg|Zaquia Tarhuntassa, from Outpost #9 
File:Painofmemory.jpg|Deborah Roper, from Pain of Memory
====2001====
File:Bashirjulianbashir.jpg|Wendy Price-Bradtke, from Bashir... Julian Bashir
===Fanclubs===
*The Doctor's Exchange -- for Alexander Siddig
*The Doctor's Waiting Room -- another Siddig fanclub
*Far Beyond the Stars -- for Siddig & Nana Visitor (who played Kira)
===Archives===
*Works tagged 'Julian Bashir' at Archive of Our Own
*Works tagged 'Bashir, J.' at fanfiction.net
*Julian Bashir at Trekiverse 
* Stories tagged julianbashir on Wattpad
*Gabrielle Lawson -- gen Bashir-centric stories
===Meta/Further Reading===
 
* by metatheatre, posted to tumblr (2012)
* Does anyone else think that Julian Bashir was a manipulative and compulsive liar? ; archive link, discussion on Reddit (2017) 
* Julian eats a lot of alien food and I find it really interesting., archive link; a meta discussion by tumblr fans ameerawritesstuff and butterflyslinky that touches on matters of culture in the 24th century, child abuse, and Julian Bashir's identity. (2018)
* by Haden Cross on startrek.com. (June 24, 2020)
==Canon Resources==
* Julian Bashir - Wikipedia
* Julian Bashir on Memory Alpha
* Julian Bashir on Memory Beta
==References==
Category:Star Trek DS9 Characters