Julian Bashir
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The writers have generously sprinkled Deep Space Nine with some memorable dialogue, which are collected here. Submissions are welcome, and can be given in the form or by email.

Season One

Emissary
Julian: This will be perfect! Real...frontier medicine.
Julian: Out here in the frontier, it's just one adventure after another.

The Forsaken
Sisko:Keep them happy.
Julian: Nothing makes them happy! They are dedicated to being unhappy, and to spreading that unhappiness around wherever they go. They are the Ambassadors of Unhappy!

Season Two

Cardassians
Garak:I am no more a spy than you are...
Julian: ...a doctor.
Garak:I don't make the rules.
Julian: But you do play the game, don't you, Garak?
Julian:A bite on the hand is certainly worth saving a boy's life, don't you think?
Garak: I suppose it depends on whose hand... just joking, Doctor.

The Alternate
Julian:[To Jadzia] My replicator or yours?
Julian: [To Odo] I've prescribed rest because it's hard for a doctor to go wrong with that one.

The Wire
Garak:Doctor, has anyone ever told you that you are an infuriating pest!?!
Julian: Cheif O'Brien ALL the time, and I never pay any attention to HIM either!
Julian:I hope you don't have one of those little bugs hidden in my quarters.
Odo: Should I?
Julian:In my expert medical opinion, I'd say it's...sick.
Jadzia: I know that, but why is it sick?
Julian: I'm a doctor, not a botanist.
Tain:Tell me, Doctor, is anyone else in Starfleet as brash as you?
Julian: I couldn't say...but probably not.
Julian:So what have you have told me were true?
Garak: All of it!
Julian: Even the lies?
Garak: Especially the lies!

Profit and Loss
Julian:If you're not a spy ... maybe you're an outcast.
Garak:Or maybe I'm an outcast spy.
Julian:How can you be both?
Garak:I never said I was either.
Julian:Before you can be loyal to another you must be loyal to yourself...
Garak:And who can we thank for those misguided words of wisdom? Sarek of Vulcan?
Julian:Actually, it was Bashir--of Earth.
Garak:With sentiments like those, you wouldn't last for five seconds on Cardassia.
Julian:Would you?

Season Three

Prophet Motives
Julian:How many games of racquetball have we played in the last two months?
O'Brien:I don't know... 15, maybe 20?
Julian:Try 70; I've been keeping track of that, too. And you know what all those games have proved to me? That I'm a poor substitute for you wife.
O'Brien:I could'a told you that 60 games ago.
O'Brien:You'd rather play a game of racquetball?
Julian:Chief, since Keiko's been on Bajor we've played 106 games of racquetball.
O'Brien:Right. So throw a dart.
O'Brien:But I bet there are doctors all over the Federation saying: Julian Bashir? Who the hell is he?

Distant Voices
Garak:I thought you liked mysteries.
Julian:I do, Earth mysteries. [...]The enigma stories would be more exciting if the outcome wasn't always the same -- The suspects are always guilty.
Garak:[...]The challenge is finding which suspect did exactly what.
Julian:..I keep hearing voices.
O'Brien:And he thinks we're acting strangely.
Jadzia:[To Julian] So...if you're in a coma, and we're not real, then what are we doing here?
Kira:[To Julian] Ha! A paranoid (points to Odo), a coward (points to O'Brien), a hot-rod (points to Dax)-- you could've dreamed up better company.
Sisko:Just doing my job.
Julian:No you're not, you're doing my job -- what's more, you're doing it as well as I can. You represent my professionalism.
Sisko:I'm flattered, doctor.
Julian:I haven't worked on a two dimensional control panel in a long time. How did we ever manage?
Jadzia:We always seemed to muddle through somehow.
Julian:Pulse threading, blood pressure steadily lowering -- I'm dying.
O'Brien:I could've told you that just by looking at you.
Julian:Just give up? I don't think so!
Garak:[To Julian] ... and what I find interesting is how your mind ended up casting me in the role of the villain! [...] To think, after all this time, all our lunches together, you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, doctor.

Season Four

Way of the Warrior
Julian:I can't belive you're not pressing charges.
Garak:Constable Odo and Captain Sisko expressed similar concerns but really doctor, there was no harm done.
Julian:They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle.
Garak:Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos.
Julian:Garak, this isn't funny.
Garak:I'm serious doctor. Thanks to your administrations, I'm almost completely healed but the damage I did to them will last a lifetime.
O'Brien:Dr. Julian Bashir, Lt. Cmdr. Worf.
Julian:Care for a game of darts?
Worf:I do not play games.
O'Brien:It's like poker, but with pointed tips. Allll-right then, think of it as target practice.
Julian:The object is to throw this dart and hit that board over there.
O'Brien:Aim for the dot in the middle.
Odo:Doctor, if a Klingon were to kill me, I'd expect nothing less than an entire opera on the subject.

Starship Down
Jadzia:A year ago, I would have thought you were trying to be a hero.
Julian:And now?
Jadzia:Now, I realize... it was just a stupid thing to do.
Julian:Ah, you're welcome.
Jadzia:If you don't mind my saying, Julian, that's a very strange fantasy.
Julian:It's been a long time since I had that particular fantasy.
Jadzia:Oh?
Julian:You sound disappointed.
Jadzia:Julian!
Julian:That's right. You enjoyed being chased and now you miss it.
Jadzia:That's preposterous! And if you start chasing me again--
Julian:Don't worry, Jadzia, now that I know you liked it, I don't need to, do I?

Our Man Bashir
Garak:So, what do we do now?
Julian:I'm thinking.
Garak:Think faster!
Garak:Is that your plan?
Julian:Shut up!
Garak:Kiss the girl, get the key. They never taught us that in the Obsidian Order.

The Quickening
Julian:Is it just me, or do the stars shine a little brighter in the Gamma Quadrant?
Jadzia:Is it just me, or has Julian lost his mind?
Julian:I prefer to confront mortality, rather than hide from it.
Julian:Those little points of light out there...the great Unknown beckoning to us.
Julian:There's no cure for the Blight. The Dominion made sure of that. And I was so arrogant I thought I could cure it in a week.
Julian:Maybe that was arrogant. But it's even more arrogant to say that there is no cure, just because you couldn't find it.

Season Five

Apocalypse Rising
Julian:You're positively glowing.
Kira:Oh, really.
Julian:I think so, but I suppose my opinion doesn't really count.
Kira:Oh it counts. Don't forget, this is your fault.
Julian:My fault?
Kira:You performed the transfer from Keiko to me.
Julian:After you volunteered.
Kira:After you put the idea in my head.
Julian:After you flew the Runabout into an asteroid field.
Kira:After you insisted we check on those anomalous bioscans.
Julian:That was Keiko!
Kira:Yes it was, but I'd rather blame you.
Julian:Whatever makes you happy. I never argue with my patients or my commanding officer.

Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places
Julian:[To Quark and Grilka] Never mind; I don't need that particular image running around in my head. I'll just treat you.
Julian:[To Jadzia and Worf] I don't need that image, either; in fact, I'm going to stop asking that question altogether. People can come in, I will treat them, and that's all.

Trials and Tribble-ations
Julian:I think I've seen enough. Let's get you back to sickbay. Wav clip
Julian:Whattley? That was my great-grandmother's name.
O'Brien:Funny.
Julian:And I think she was in Starfleet.
O'Brien:Why? That's a common enough name.
Julian:But what if that was her?
O'Brien:Do you realize the odds?
Julian:No one ever met my great-grandfather... this could be a predestination paradox! God, Chief, surely you took elementary temporal mechanics at the Academy... I could be destined to fall in love with that woman and become my own great-grandfather!
O'Brien:You're being ridiculous!
Julian:Ridiculous! If I don't meet with her tomorrow I may never be born!
Kira:[Over comm badge] Chief, are you ready for transport?
O'Brien:Are we ever!
Julian:You saw the way she looked at me! You can't just dismiss this!
O'Brien:I can try.
Julian:All right. Fine. But I can't wait to get back to Deep Space Nine and see your face when you find out that I never existed!" Wav clip
Sisko:In the old days, operations officers wore red, command officers wore gold...
Jadzia:And women wore less.
Julian:I think I'm going to like history. Wav clip

Dr. Bashir, I Presume
Julian:[To Julian] Just think Julian, if this thing works you'll be able to irritate hundreds of people you've never even met. [chuckles]
Holo-Julian:Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
Zimmerman:Oh, that's original. Wav clip
Julian:What do you want me to do?
Zimmerman:Just stand there and look like a doctor. If you can!
Julian:[To his father] Jules Bashir died in that hospital because you couldn't live with the shame of a son who didn't measure up! Wav clip
Julian:[To Quark] The word you are looking for is 'unnatural', meaning not from nature. 'FREAK' or 'MONSTER' would also be acceptable!
Julian:She's a female, Rom, and the one constant in the universe is, females are trouble!

Soldiers of the Empire
O'Brien:So, Julian, how's the Intelligence business?
Julian:Oh, I can't talk about it. All I can do is read these reports, and analyses, and analyses of analyses, and keep my mouth shut about it. So, I have to walk around the station looking like I--you really don't care, do you?
O'Brien:No, Julian, I don't.
Julian:[General Martok] If you really want to thank me, don't come in here dripping blood anymore--it takes days to get it out of the carpet!

Season Six

One Little Ship
O'Brien:What are you laughing about? You're as small as I am!
Julian:Actually, you are sitting 1.5 meters closer to the singularity, which makes you point three percent smaller than I am.
Julian:This conduit's filthy. Don't you ever clean up in here?
Jadzia:All right, all right, let's not badger the Chief.
O'Brien:Thank you!
Julian:I'm sorry. That was rather [smirks] small of me.

Change of Heart
Julian:What's the point? You can't play Tongo -- it'll take you another century to beat Quark.
O'Brien:I can't, but you can -- with that genetically engineered brain of yours.
Julian:But I just learned the rules!
O'Brien:In 5 seconds flat!
Julian:[rises] "No, Chief. It's your obsession, not mine.
O'Brien:Do it for latinum.
Julian:Ha, nice try.
O'Brien:Do it for the look on Quark's face when he is beaten at Tongo by a lowly hu-man.
Julian:[sits] "Deal the cards.

Season Seven

Yet to come!

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