top five bashir moments (from the first three seasons we’ve seen) counting down from five. honorable mention to The Gang Tries Desperately To Win The Carrington Award

5 when he’s like but garak would have told me if he was a cardassian spy! we’ve been having lunch together for a year!

4 every time he pops out from behind a wall while o’brien is moping about his troubled marriage is and like hullo chief! fancy a game of racquetball!

3 when he meets a patient who can’t walk in the station’s artificial gravity and a) immediately starts violating medical ethics by hitting on her b) invents an irreversible treatment to fix this without seeming to ever consider that she would probably want to be able to walk on her home planet

2 when he invents a new surgical procedure in like ten minutes and uses it to replace half of kira’s boyfriend’s brain

1 when he and o’brien are stranded on a desert planet and o’brien’s thinking about how he’s never going to see his wife and daughter again and bashir is at first having a great time and then starts talking about how he secretly judges o’brien for being lame and monogamous and then tells him about his french ballet dancer ex-girlfriend’s sexy feet

(bonus offscreen moment: when he tried to hit on jadzia by giving her his DIARIES FROM MEDICAL SCHOOL and saying they might help her understand him better, and then she doesn’t read then until she thinks he died)