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Richard Bashir forcing his young child to go through dangerous , life-altering, illegal genetic procedures to make him smarter and then mockingly saying shit like "Oh he thinks he's so much smarter and better than us." I think Richard Bashir should be killed with a gun.
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People who downplay pre-augmentation Julian's disabilities actually really annoy me.
What his dad did wasn't wrong because he "could have had a perfectly normal life!" (highly unlikely given what Julian describes)
What his dad did was wrong because it was a violation of his bodily autonomy
What he did was wrong because it condemned Julian to having to hide what he is because he is now an illegal entity and he had no say in this
Regardless of what life could have been like for "Jules" what his dad had done to him was wrong and it is not less wrong for Julian having been severely disabled
Squaring "my father was a diplomat" with what we see of Richard Bashir later... what if that was before the augmentations? Because nothing said there is inconsistent with Julian not really understanding what was going on; it is perhaps strengthened by it.
So assume two things here: that Julian's memory is a bit blurry and that the act of getting Julian augmented did something to Richard.
Richard is lower-level in the diplomatic service, abrasive but not incompetent. Not going to rise to the highest heights but reasonably good at his job--and very arrogant with it, because he's not yet a chronic screw-up but he's still Richard Bashir.
And then he has a son who is developmentally delayed.
This eats at him. Because he is very arrogant with it, very convinced he has a bright future ahead of him, he's a genius selflessly serving the Federation, and now here is what he would see as this secret sign of his own weakness, that someone as bright and skilled as him doesn't have a child who is equally brilliant.
So he takes his son to Adigeon Prime, and only afterwards does he realize that he now can't return to his post with the diplomatic service because it will be obvious something happened. As much as he tried to keep little Jules out of sight, he's working in the diplomatic service and traveling all over the Federation with his family. People know about Jules. People will know if Richard comes back with a suddenly genius child.
Which means the Bashirs have to completely cut ties with their old life, and since Richard was a diplomat traveling all over the Federation, that leaves a lot of skilled work unavailable to him because someone might recognize him or notice, and in any case he can't exactly use his previous work history to obtain a job. Which leaves him primarily performing low-skill jobs which are far below his abilities, and slowly growing to resent Julian as responsible for the dramatic reversal in the family fortunes. He doesn't stick to any project for long because none of it is the work he was so good at and loved doing and none of it will ever be that work; he can't rise to any position where he might gain wider recognition because someone will notice and questions will be asked, and he does really badly at a lot of the low-skilled work he can get because he thinks of it as beneath him and he hates that this is what he's been forced to when he was a diplomat. So he does it poorly, he loses his temper a lot, he's harsh on Julian, and he's getting ever more bitter as the years pass, which does nothing to improve his parenting.
Julian, meanwhile, doesn't have terribly clear memories from the time before all this was true, so he only knows that his father was a diplomat and then wasn't, and assumes that his father's chronic screw-up-ness is why Richard isn't still a diplomat. He assumes Richard orchestrated the whole genetic engineering in an attempt to make up for his own shortcomings and pushes so hard in an attempt to at least have a child who can achieve greatness, so Richard can take responsibility for that greatness by proxy when he can't achieve it himself. And in a way this isn't wrong--but it's so much more than just wanting to have a child to brag about. As far as Richard is concerned, Julian being a genius is the thing Richard sacrificed his life for, which means it had better be worth it.
It never, ever will be.
Deep down, Richard knows that.
But he would never, ever admit it.
Truly I think Garak should get the opportunity to (verbally) torture Richard Bashir. Just absolutely lay into him for what he did to Julian and the consequences of his actions. To dissect him to his core. Or just stare at him without saying anything a la Kelas Parmak for an extended period of time until Richard breaks completely. To make him feel the true weight of his actions in a way even jail won’t.
And of course Julian should get to watch- as a treat!
The thing about Garashir is that they’re so different yet they understand each other on a fundamental level that no one else quite grasps. The crew (mostly) all have family issues, but Julian and Elim share the quiet trauma of being unwanted since birth. Of their fathers, the men who were SUPPOSED to love them unconditionally, looking at the very core of their souls and deciding that they’d need to be changed, be MANIPULATED, to be worth of attention let ALONE affection.
And that’s why it’s so lovely that all the other wants is for them to just be themself.
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richard bashir: don’t worry julian, your mother and I will never tell anyone our massive illegal secret about how you’re genetically-enhanced. I’m saying this out loud to emphasize the fact which the three of us already know and shouldn’t mention out loud in public regardless of if the room appears to be empty. No one will find out, we promise. Goodbye, son who has a curiously indifferent expression to the massive illegal secret news we just said out loud.
Something about how Julians parents treated him as something to be changed and improved upon. Something to be made precisely by and for Richard’s will.
Tain doing the same to Garak by molding this young boy with hope and optimism and kindness in his heart into an Obsidian Order weapon.
The operating table vs the closet. The will of the father imposed by force.
Tumblr's top 10 most strongly disliked Star Trek characters
10. Commander Bruce Maddox
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 41.2%
9. Gul Dukat
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 41.3%
8. Doctor Mora Pol
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 41.9%
7. "Luther" Sloan
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 46.8%
6. Tolaris
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 48.4%
5. Armus
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 48.7%
4. Governor Kodos
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 50.2%
3. Khan Noonien Singh (AOS)
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 51.3%
2. Richard Bashir
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 59.3%
1. "Anjohl Tennan"
With a "Strongly Dislike" percentage of 63.1%
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These are based on only the "Strongly Dislike" percentage. Summing the Strongly Dislike and Dislike columns of my spreadsheet naturally gives different results. It is likely that these results will change, but I will keep the post up to date.
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