Our Man Bashir (DS9 episode)

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
"Our Man Bashir"

Episode no.
Prod. code	4x10
Airdate	1995-11-27
Writer(s)	Ronald D. Moore
Director	Winrich Kolbe
Guest star(s)	Andrew Robinson Kenneth Marshall
Year	2373
Stardate	48471.5
Episode chronology
Previous	"The Sword of Kahless"
Next	"Homefront"

"Our Man Bashir" is a fourth-season episode of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It features many homages to James Bond and similar heroes.

Short description: Bashir plays a 1960s secret agent in a holosuite program, but when it malfunctions he must make actual life-or-death decisions.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Bashir is in the holosuite playing out a fantasy with himself as a secret agent. Garak intrudes and convinces Bashir to let him tag along. Meanwhile, Sisko, Worf, Dax, Kira, and O'Brien are returning to DS9. They find that their ship has been sabotaged and that a warp core breach is imminent. Eddington transports them out, but the ship is destroyed during transport and the five crew members are trapped in the transporter buffer. Eddington needs to store their patterns while he repairs the transporter, but doing so uses almost all of the station's memory. Their physical patterns end up in the holosuite, where they appear as characters in Bashir's program. Kira first appears as Colonel Anastasia Komananov, an operative for the KGB. Bashir and Garak discover that they can not shut off or leave the holosuite or allow the characters to die, lest they destroy the crew members' patterns in memory. The two are forced to play the story through.

Bashir, Garak and Komananov need to find Dr. Noah, who is planning to cut holes in the ground worldwide allowing magma to escape, lowering the tectonic plates and covering the entire world with water except for his base on Mount Everest. They go to a club where they meet Worf as Dr. Noah's associate. He agrees to let them meet Noah and knocks them out. They awaken in Dr. Noah's lair and meet Dax as Professor Honey Bare. Bashir and Garak are tied to one of the lasers and the laser is timed, leaving them to die when the laser cuts into the Earth and magma flows out. Bashir uses Honey Bare's attraction to him to get them released. Garak tries to access the holosuite door, but Bashir shoots him to prevent him from doing so. Bashir tells him that the normal ending for the story is for one of the women to die, and the other remains with the hero; he decides that he must prevent it by taking the story a different direction.

Eddington decides to use the Defiant to rematerialize the crew, since its systems are completely separate from those of DS9. Bashir and Noah argue, and Bashir is able to delay the story long enough to allow Eddington to complete the transport.