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Oh. That one. Yes. When half the viewing public must have cheered at seeing Julian being a slave for a day because they saw him as an irritating tit, while the other half cheered at seeing Julian being a slave for a day because they like seeing pretty people in distress.
I wonder if Julian began acting like that because it was expected that someone of his talents would be incredibly confident in his abilities, instead of ashamed at having an unfair advantage over his peers and terrified at being found out. So, he started acting the Insufferable Genius, to fit in with the other confident over-achieving students he went to school with. It just became a part of his mask.
That’s the thing about Julian’s retcon; it muddles you about everything from his earlier characterisation and whether he was sincerely that much of a boob or putting up a front.
I incline towards ‘that much of a boob’ just because it tends to be cuter.
I liked the retcon because it opened up this side of Federation society we hardly got to see in concerns to genetic engineering. Most of the people introduced as a product of GE were either megalomaniacs, in need of being shown they are lacking that something ‘human’ for it, or harbingers of doom for the ‘natural’ people. Suddenly, we have a character who is part of the regular cast, has been shown to be dedicated to his work and a caring friend, but has no ambition to be the next Khan or has to be shown the exit so he doesn’t outshine the other characters. I wish they had gone more into the affect it had on Starfleet regulations regarding the acceptance of GE people, the political heat Sisko may have received for keeping Julian in his position, and if other people on the station decided they didn’t want a GE doctor treating them.
It also cleared up why he survived that attack by the Lethean when it was suppose to be fatal to humans.
I kind of edge toward a little of both. A lot of people will pretend to a confidence they don’t have because they fear being seen as ‘weak’. It would make sense, since a lot of his bragging went away after the Big Reveal. He didn’t have to wear that mask anymore. Of course, it would make sense for him to be socially awkward outside of a Academy and Federation setting, where he was probably praised for his intelligence and ambition by his instructors and authority figures. He may have taken it as a given that everyone would want to hear how awesome he was, and would then reward him for it, like they did for much of his life.
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But why wouldn’t Kira be pleased that Julian was there to bring his Federation medicine to the natives? I’m honestly surprised that she didn’t deck him; Kira had more self-control in the first season than people gave her credit for. He didn’t mean to sound self-important or put down his host planet, but it does reveal that the Federation still has issues related to race relations. It is canon that they were seen as pariahs on many worlds where they tried to start over during the Occupation.
All his life, Julian might have grown up with images of Bajorans either seen as refugees in need of a handout, blood thirsty terrorists, or part of a ‘let’s laugh at the funny foreigner’ episodes of popular entertainment broadcasts, a commercial asking for donations to help Bajoran orphans, or as part of a immigration and foreign aide debate on political broadcasts. He could have seen them in person as domestics at a friend’s house, taking orders from diners at restaurant, holding a position at half the qualifications they actually have, or as part of a affirmative action program to help Bajoran ex-pats assimilate into Federation society. He could have heard people wonder why their Bajoran neighbors don’t move back to Bajor now that the Occupation has ended, even if their neighbors have settled there for decades. He would never have thought of Bajorans as being lesser, but would have been accustomed to being in a more privileged position than them. That sort of thing has a way of warping and seeping into a person’s outlook.
What I wouldn’t give for a deeper look into non-Starfleet views of the world of Star Trek.
Yes, that does make sense. He even has the blue eyes for it. Would they be a covert ops for the Republic, or an outfit like the Triple Triad?
While all this is TOTALLY VALID ANALYSIS, the scene I was thinking of wasn’t actually the one in the pilot where he’s all condescendingly excited about what a shithole DS9 is and she’s like THIS SHITHOLE IS MY HOME ASSWIPE - the conversation I had in mind was:
KIRA: I’ve never seen anything like that.
BASHIR: Hmm?
KIRA: I’ve never seen anything like that.
BASHIR: The woman?
KIRA: She was dead. The tricorder clearly showed -
BASHIR: Ah yes, well, tricorders. Very accurate with live people, not so accurate with dead ones. We learn that first year medical school.
KIRA: Well, I was very impressed, Doctor.
BASHIR: And well you should have been. I impressed myself on this one actually. I can’t imagine what other doctor would even consider examining the scapular nodes for parasitic infection. I just seem to have a talent, I suppose. A vision that sees past the obvious, around the mundane, right to the target. Fate has granted me a gift, Major. A gift to be a healer.
KIRA: I feel privileged to be in your presence.
BASHIR: Glad to have you along.
KIRA: Did anyone ever tell you that you’re -(mercifully, the computer interrupts them)
(leaving me to wonder if she would have said ‘an infuriating pest,’ because then he would have had three people to tell him that and not listen to them)
Oh, I think the Obsidian Order has to be government, always - though the fact that obsidian is an igneous rock isn’t all that helpful because it clearly positions them as Fire Nation rather than Water Tribe.
Oh just IMAGINE Admiral Zhao and Gul Dukat looking down on each other.
Oh. That one. Yes. When half the viewing public must have cheered at seeing Julian being a slave for a day because they saw him as an irritating tit, while the other half cheered at seeing Julian being a slave for a day because they like seeing pretty people in distress.
I wonder if Julian began acting like that because it was expected that someone of his talents would be incredibly confident in his abilities, instead of ashamed at having an unfair advantage over his peers and terrified at being found out. So, he started acting the Insufferable Genius, to fit in with the other confident over-achieving students he went to school with. It just became a part of his mask.
It would be a Battle of Ham and Cheese, and sexy evil men throwing their weighty egos about. Yes. Yes good.
It could be a mixed element organization.
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And really put a damper on everyone’s good time. But still, that is some creepy eugenics theme going on in the Equalist movement. It would scare the hell out of me if someone wanted to remove a part of me in the name of ‘equality’.omg
they would totally try to take Julian’s bending
(water bc he’s a *~healer~* and air as an enhancement extra that he has to keep secret)
This might be an unpopular opinion and I don’t even have any personal explanation for it, but I find something about the word ‘healer’ really wanky. Usually when something annoys me I can verbalise why, and since I can’t do that in this case I usually keep a lid on it, but I just felt like sharing it this once.
Julian would only use his airbending as a last resort, like when the Equalist jump him outside his clinic.
And Garak can be the agent going undercover in the Equalist movement, sent by the City Council. He rescues Julian from his attackers, and is intrigued by him having control over two elements despite their already being an Avatar.
Maybe because ‘healer’ has the connotation that there is something wrong with you, something that need to be fixed for you to be let back in society with everyone else. Considering that there are many things that do need to be managed by medication/therapy, but doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be considered a part of and take part in society as a whole, that could be a valid point.
I’ve begun to feel that ‘healer’ is a strange word in the last few months. A physical therapist is different from a thoracic surgeon from a psychiatric nurse from a pharmacy technician from an EMT. But when you hear ‘healer’, it rarely brings up the above, even though they are part of the health professions. You just think something like a primary care physician, or maybe a trauma surgeon, but hardly ever anyone that isn’t a doctor. Or maybe I’m just nitpicking.
Actually, I think it just sounds SMUG to me, like the person is all ‘I am a heeealerrrr’ and I’m like dude you didn’t heal anything, the body healed itself, not to downplay what you did with medicine or surgery or whatever, but that is not the part you did.
Smug like Julian monologuing to Kira about how awesome his medical talent is, in that one early episode.
Also, Garak, Obsidian Order generally, total bloodbenders.
But why wouldn’t Kira be pleased that Julian was there to bring his Federation medicine to the natives? I’m honestly surprised that she didn’t deck him; Kira had more self-control in the first season than people gave her credit for. He didn’t mean to sound self-important or put down his host planet, but it does reveal that the Federation still has issues related to race relations. It is canon that they were seen as pariahs on many worlds where they tried to start over during the Occupation.
All his life, Julian might have grown up with images of Bajorans either seen as refugees in need of a handout, blood thirsty terrorists, or part of a ‘let’s laugh at the funny foreigner’ episodes of popular entertainment broadcasts, a commercial asking for donations to help Bajoran orphans, or as part of a immigration and foreign aide debate on political broadcasts. He could have seen them in person as domestics at a friend’s house, taking orders from diners at restaurant, holding a position at half the qualifications they actually have, or as part of a affirmative action program to help Bajoran ex-pats assimilate into Federation society. He could have heard people wonder why their Bajoran neighbors don’t move back to Bajor now that the Occupation has ended, even if their neighbors have settled there for decades. He would never have thought of Bajorans as being lesser, but would have been accustomed to being in a more privileged position than them. That sort of thing has a way of warping and seeping into a person’s outlook.
What I wouldn’t give for a deeper look into non-Starfleet views of the world of Star Trek.
Yes, that does make sense. He even has the blue eyes for it. Would they be a covert ops for the Republic, or an outfit like the Triple Triad?
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