The senior senior Trekker writes/types.
This is the third episode with the Ersatz Bashir, we started with rapture, which we know the original real Bashir never got the new federation uniform. And then, the next episode, "between the darkness, and the light", that was also fake Bashir.
He certainly has the part of Dr. Bashir down perfectly, he looks and speaks exactly like Bashir. I mean, we didn't know, we did not even suspect. So, when the real Bashir is revealed later, in the dominion prison camp, this was the biggest shocker that we received in season five.
Which makes me think about a couple of things.
How did FakeBashir feel when Quark entered the infirmary with a sick changeling infant? Did that changeling really want to assist a baby changeling?
And apparently it does whatever the real Bashir would have done to fix the sick changeling, or did "he"?
Meanwhile, the O'Brien's second child is being born.
And I can use this Interlude to talk about a Star Trek coupling that should have been exploited more.
Duncan Raegher aka Shaakar and Miles Edward O'Brien- A match made on this side of Laurel and Hardy!
The characters interactions were extremely funny, and this was all we ever got, this one episode. There should have been more episodes, it wasn't just a triangle between the chief, Keiko, and Kira, it was a double triangle which included Shaakar, Kira and Miles.
It wasn't funny enough, the family arguments between the O'Briens and "the other O'Briens"- Shaakar should have been part of this as well, and it was only ever exploited in this one episode.
But meanwhile, we also have Odo and his "Father" Doctor Mora. And then Odo becomes a father in his own right.
And so while the O'Briens are having their second offspring, Doctor Mora becomes a grandfather of sorts.
The parallels between the two events are striking. And just like the O'Briens, this was all we got on the Odo Side of the equation- this was the very last time we ever saw Dr. Mora as well.
But in the middle of both of these "births", is the fake changeling Dr. Bashir.
Who was living with solids, as a solid, for a whole month if not a little bit more. And as we see later, this changeling was willing to blow up Bajor's sun, and possibly himself as well, as a gesture of hatred against the solids, the alpha quadrant, and the federation.
But here he is actually acting as Dr. Bashir, helping the O'Briens give birth and helping Odo with the infant changeling.
But when we think about this, a little bit more, we have to ask, did ersatzBashir do something to the changeling? Did he link with it? We never see any evidence that fake Bashir was interacting with this changeling infant, did he have anything to do with this changeling getting sick again? Did he link with it and tell it to do what the changeling ultimately did?
"Tales of FakeBashir", we just have to wonder what fake Bashir was doing when he was pretending to be Bashir. A month is a very long time, and the other question is was fake Bashir reporting to the other founders at this point?
This is always one of my favorite episodes to revisit when I do a deep space nine binge. Sometimes I will watch it more than once. There are a lot of things in this episode.
This is the third episode with the Ersatz Bashir, we started with rapture, which we know the original real Bashir never got the new federation uniform. And then, the next episode, "between the darkness, and the light", that was also fake Bashir.
He certainly has the part of Dr. Bashir down perfectly, he looks and speaks exactly like Bashir. I mean, we didn't know, we did not even suspect. So, when the real Bashir is revealed later, in the dominion prison camp, this was the biggest shocker that we received in season five.
Which makes me think about a couple of things.
How did FakeBashir feel when Quark entered the infirmary with a sick changeling infant? Did that changeling really want to assist a baby changeling?
And apparently it does whatever the real Bashir would have done to fix the sick changeling, or did "he"?
Meanwhile, the O'Brien's second child is being born.
And I can use this Interlude to talk about a Star Trek coupling that should have been exploited more.
Duncan Raegher aka Shaakar and Miles Edward O'Brien- A match made on this side of Laurel and Hardy!
The characters interactions were extremely funny, and this was all we ever got, this one episode. There should have been more episodes, it wasn't just a triangle between the chief, Keiko, and Kira, it was a double triangle which included Shaakar, Kira and Miles.
It wasn't funny enough, the family arguments between the O'Briens and "the other O'Briens"- Shaakar should have been part of this as well, and it was only ever exploited in this one episode.
But meanwhile, we also have Odo and his "Father" Doctor Mora. And then Odo becomes a father in his own right.
And so while the O'Briens are having their second offspring, Doctor Mora becomes a grandfather of sorts.
The parallels between the two events are striking. And just like the O'Briens, this was all we got on the Odo Side of the equation- this was the very last time we ever saw Dr. Mora as well.
But in the middle of both of these "births", is the fake changeling Dr. Bashir.
Who was living with solids, as a solid, for a whole month if not a little bit more. And as we see later, this changeling was willing to blow up Bajor's sun, and possibly himself as well, as a gesture of hatred against the solids, the alpha quadrant, and the federation.
But here he is actually acting as Dr. Bashir, helping the O'Briens give birth and helping Odo with the infant changeling.
But when we think about this, a little bit more, we have to ask, did ersatzBashir do something to the changeling? Did he link with it? We never see any evidence that fake Bashir was interacting with this changeling infant, did he have anything to do with this changeling getting sick again? Did he link with it and tell it to do what the changeling ultimately did?
"Tales of FakeBashir", we just have to wonder what fake Bashir was doing when he was pretending to be Bashir. A month is a very long time, and the other question is was fake Bashir reporting to the other founders at this point?
This is always one of my favorite episodes to revisit when I do a deep space nine binge. Sometimes I will watch it more than once. There are a lot of things in this episode.