Bashir as a James Bond-esque secret agent
Julian Bashir, Secret Agent was a series of holonovels created by holoprogrammer Felix and starring Julian Bashir as the main character. It was set in the 1960s during the Cold War and featured exotic locales such as Paris and Kowloon. Garak thought it was a farcical version of real-life intelligence operations, but the crew of Deep Space 9 found it diverting.
The plots were often elaborate and barely believable. For example, one plot involved an insane genius, Hippocrates Noah, who believed civilization had become so corrupt as to necessitate a change. Noah's plan was to flood the planet save for his mansion in the Himalayas. Another took place in West Berlin, where three MI5 agents had been killed in a suspected Soviet plot, but with several American-intercepted messages routed through Istanbul to an island in the South Pacific suggesting otherwise. Every plot involved two women, one of whom was meant to die with the other ending up in love with Bashir (although the choice depended on how the program played out).
Characters
- Honey Bare
- Caprice
- Duchamps
- Falcon
- Anastasia Komananov
- Mona Luvsitt
- Patrick Merriweather
- Hippocrates Noah
Appearances/References
Background Information
Julian Bashir, Secret Agent is likely a customizable title, i.e. "Julian Bashir" is the title because it is Dr. Bashir's program and it would thus be named differently if owned by someone else. The holonovel was a homage to James Bond, with numerous in-jokes and references embedded in "Our Man Bashir" and occasionally other episodes.
The program is also featured at the beginning of the novel Hollow Men.