"Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the sixteenth episode of the fifth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009.
The episode features a familiar face from Star Trek: Voyager, Robert Picardo, playing the creator of the Doctor, his main Star Trek: Voyager character. Of greater significance to Deep Space 9's lore, however, is a major twist in Julian Bas...
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"Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the sixteenth episode of the fifth season. It has an average fan rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009.
The episode features a familiar face from Star Trek: Voyager, Robert Picardo, playing the creator of the Doctor, his main Star Trek: Voyager character. Of greater significance to Deep Space 9's lore, however, is a major twist in Julian Bashir's backstory.
Dr. Lewis Zimmerman comes to Deep Space Nine with the intent of using Dr. Bashir's physical and personality likeness as a template for a long-term medical hologram (as opposed to the short-term Emergency Medical Hologram installed on such ships as USS Voyager and the Enterprise-E). In order to make the hologram as robust as possible, Zimmerman needs a complete personality profile on Bashir. In addition to questioning Bashir himself, Zimmerman interviews Bashir's colleagues and makes arrangements – against Bashir's wishes – to...
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