GoldenEye premiered 30 years ago, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine immediately followed with 1995's second great James Bond-style adventure. Kicking off in the fall of 1995, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 4 was a soft reboot that galvanized the spinoff led by Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks). DS9 season 4 added Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn) to the cast en route to making Klingons the season's big bad and delivering classic episodes like the heartwrenching "The Visitor" and the Ferengi comedy romp "Little Green Men."
On November 17, 1995, GoldenEye hit movie theaters in the United States, successfully bringing the venerable James Bond franchise into the 1990s. Pierce Brosnan immediately proved to be an ideal and popular 007, and GoldenEye was a box-office smash, netting over $356-million worldwide. Along with introducing Judi Dench as M, and pitting 007 against iconic villains Alec Trevelyan AKA 006 (Sean Bean) and Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), GoldenEye was the best of the Brosnan Bond movies. But Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also had James Bond fever.
Star Trek: DS9’s “Our Man Bashir” Was 1995’s Other Great James Bond Story After GoldenEye
"Our Man Bashir" Premiered Just 10 Days After Pierce Brosnan's First Bond Movie
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 4, episode 10, "Our Man Bashir," was a surprising and loving tribute to James Bond and the 1960s spy genre. Written by Ronald D. Moore and directed by Winrich Kolbe, DS9's Bondian romp was a holosuite adventure where Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) played through his 20th-century spy fantasies with Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) in tow. A transporter accident ports other Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters into Bashir's fantasy, making Julian's role-playing game deadly and all too real.
Premiering just 10 days after GoldenEye, on November 27, 1995, "Our Man Bashir" delved into classic James Bond tropes, with Captain Sisko cast as the villainous Dr. Hippocrates Noah, Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) as Dr. Honey Bare, and Major Kira Nerys (Nana Vistor) as the Soviet spy who loved Bashir, Anastasia Komananov. Unlike GoldenEye, which was a modern rendition of James Bond, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Our Man Bashir" was firmly set in the swinging 1960s' iconography of Sean Connery's 007 movies.
DS9’s James Bond Story Set Up Dr. Bashir’s Section 31 Future
Dr. Bashir's Love Of Espionage Got Section 31's Attention
"Our Man Bashir" was a breakthrough Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode for Dr. Julian Bashir and Alexander Siddig. Previously, the characterization of Dr. Bashir proved problematic, and fan response was tepid towards Julian. However, "Our Man Bashir" gave DS9's boy genius doctor a new sheen of sophistication. Bashir's James Bond rub made Julian cool for the first time, and a light bulb went off for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's writers on how to write for Dr. Bashir and Alexander Siddig going forward.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 5, Dr. Bashir was revealed to be genetically enhanced, explaining his preternatural intelligence. Bashir's love of spy craft bled into DS9's creation of Section 31, the insidious black ops agency that sought to recruit Julian into their ranks. Though Dr. Bashir didn't join Section 31 by the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, there have been hints that becoming a Federation spy may be Bashir's destiny. And it all started when Julian donned a tuxedo to become Julian Bashir, Secret Agent, in "Our Man Bashir."
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