Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Doctor Bashir, I Presume
TV Flash files “Doctor Bashir, I Presume” as hour 114 of 176 in the TV Flash guide — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) on Syndication, season 5, episode 16, aired 1997-02-24, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E16: listed hour 114 of 176 in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guide, hour 16 of 26 in season 5. It aired 1997-02-24 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “By Inferno's Light” (S05E15). Next is “A Simple Investigation” (S05E17).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Dr. Lewis Zimmerman arrives on DS9 intending to use Dr. Julian Bashir as the model for his new Long-term Medical Hologram, but when Zimmerman's plans threaten to unveil a dark secret that Bashir has carried since childhood, Julian is forced to make a life-altering confession.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Doctor Bashir, I Presume sit in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guide?
S05E16 is listed hour 114 of 176 — hour 16 of 26 in season 5, season 5 episode 16.
When did Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S05E16 air?
Doctor Bashir, I Presume aired 1997-02-24 and is listed at 60 minutes.
How is it different from other Trek?
Fixed station instead of a constantly traveling starship; heavier serialization, politics, religion, and the Dominion War as a long novel.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Trek stays put: Avery Brooks's Sisko commands a politically charged station near a wormhole, and the franchise finally lets serialization, war, and religion get messy. Berman and Piller's seven-season novel argues with utopia — Bajor, the Dominion War, moral gray TNG often dodged. The boldest 1990s Star Trek, still fighting the fan civil war.
Flash: January 3, 1993, syndication, a politically charged station near a wormhole, and the franchise finally staying put. Rick Berman and Michael Piller's Deep Space Nine leaned into serialization, war arcs, religion, and moral gray that 1990s Trek had often dodged. Avery Brooks's Sisko anchored diplomacy, prophecy, and combat with commanding gravity. Nana Visitor, Colm Meaney, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, Armin Shimerman made station politics into longform novel television. Someone already filed the…
Filed against
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- Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys
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- Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien
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- René Auberjonois as Odo
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- Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax
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