Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summary
Celeste Chan Wolfe , wife ofStar Trek : Deep Space Ninewriter Robert Hewitt Wolfe , was inadvertently creditworthy for the Book of Revelation that Doctor Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) was an Augment . DS9season 5 , instalment 16 , " Doctor Bashir , I Presume ? " hold the plot - change twist that Bashir had undergo illegal inherited augmentation operating room when he was a child . The Federation ’s ban on genetic augmentation was apply to foreclose the birthing of another despot likeKhan Noonien Singh(Ricardo Montalban ) . However , Bashir ’s augmentation rise that not every genetic pane was a tyrant - in - wait .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s revelation about Doctor Bashir further developed the quality and opened up fresh avenues for storytelling . Some of thebest Doctor Bashir sequence ofDS9 in posterior seasons revolved around him attempt to improve the lives of other Augments , while wrench down the forward motion of Section 31 , who wanted to weaponize him against the Dominion . One of the most interesting constituent of Bashir ’s inherited augmentation was the lengths that he went to so as to hide them . This allowed Robert Hewitt Wolfe to cover aDS9plothole that had always irritated his wife Celeste Chan Wolfe .
The shocking disclosure about Dr. Bashir ’s transmitted enhancements in Star Trek : DS9 season 5 cast a Jadzia Dax here and now from season 2 in a unexampled visible light .
DS9’s Doctor Bashir Is An Augment Thanks To Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s Wife
“You purposely answered the question wrong.”
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , season 1 , episode 7 , " Q - Less " , drop a line by Robert Hewitt Wolfe , Bashir reveals that he made a all-important error in his terminal unwritten test at Starfleet Medical Academy . Julian ’s mistake was that he misidentify a pre - ganglionic fiber for a post - ganglionic nerve , which result in him only being the second - proficient pupil in his class . Celeste Chan Wolfe , a psychotherapist , pointed out to her hubby that pre - ganglionic fibers and post - ganglionic nerves are two wholly dissimilar things . When he came to writeDS9season 3 , episode 19 , " remote Voices " , Wolfe wrote an apparent account for the inaccuracy .
ALTOVAR : But pre - ganglionic fibres and post - ganglionic nerves are n’t anything alike . Any first class aesculapian bookman could tell them apart . You designedly answered the question awry .
BASHIR : That ’s ridiculous .
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ALTOVAR : You did n’t require to be first in your course . You could n’t take the air pressure .
BASHIR : That ’s not truthful .
Years later , when it was determine that Doctor Bashir was genetically enhanced , Julian ’s measured mistake was present more meaning . Rather than being a mistake , it was , as Altovar indicate , a deliberate option to shroud his identity as a super - powered augment . Star Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 5 , episode 16 , " Doctor Bashir , I Presume ? " waswritten by Ronald D. Moore , who wanted tomake Julian an augment to excuse the inconsistencies in Doctor Bashir ’s character . As the first soul to point out an mutual exclusiveness in Doctor Bashir ’s fictional character , Celeste Chan Wolfe can take a small portion of the credit entry for the eventual revelation .
Celeste Chan Wolfe Wrote For Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda
Robert Hewitt Wolfe leftStar Trek : Deep Space Nineafter time of year 5 , to adaptGene Roddenberry’sAndromedaconcept into a TV show . Celeste Chan Wolfe , who is a film writer as well as a psychotherapist , submitted two story ideas for the show . Chan Wolfe is credit for the episodes " The Sum of Its Parts " and " In Heaven Now Are Three " , the teleplays of which were written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe .
Andromedawas executive produced by Gene Roddenberry ’s widow woman , Majel Barrett - Roddenberry .
Perhaps unsurprisingly , the Wolfes ' two sequence ofAndromedatouch on the whim of create life . " The Sum of Its region " is an episode about stilted intelligence activity , while " In Heaven Now Are Three " is about mythological technology that is bruit to have the power to make planet . While these are larger construct than Doctor Bashir ’s genetic sweetening storyline inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , they all interrogate the very nature of what it mean to be human . It ’s a question that modernStar Trekcontinues to ponder decades later on .
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