Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Fascination (1994)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir

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• Doctor Bashir : Nervous, Chief?

  Chief O'Brien : What're you talking about?

  Doctor Bashir : That's your fifth cup of coffee in twenty minutes.

  Chief O'Brien : I didn't realize you were keeping track.

  Doctor Bashir : Oh, nervous and irascible.

  Chief O'Brien : If you hadn't seen your wife and child for two months, you'd be irascible too.

  Doctor Bashir : Well, believe me, I'm looking forward to Keiko and Molly's visit as much as you are.

  Chief O'Brien : Ha-ha, I doubt that.

  Doctor Bashir : How many games of raquetball have we played in the last two months?

  Chief O'Brien : I don't know, um... Fifteen, maybe twenty?

  Doctor Bashir : No, try seventy. I've been keeping track of that, too. And you know what all those games have proved to me? That I'm a poor substitute for your wife.

  Chief O'Brien : I could've told you that sixty games ago.

• Chief O'Brien : Thing is, they're only gonna be here for two days. That's barely enough time to say hello. And then back to Bajor again for another four months.

  Doctor Bashir : Four months! Why, that's another 150 games of raquetball. I don't think my elbow can take that kind of abuse.

• Commander Sisko : Doctor, I need your help.

  Doctor Bashir : [in passionate embrace with Kira]  And I need yours, too. You got to get me away from Kira, I can't... keep my hands...

  Major Kira : What's worse, I can't keep my hands off him!

• Doctor Bashir : Zanthi fever is a virus which affects the empathic abilities of, um... mature Betazoids.

• Doctor Bashir : A simple wide-spectrum antiviral agent should cure Mrs. Troi. And as for everyone else, well, they'll be back to normal in a day or two. Excuse me. I promised Nerys that I'd meet her in her quarters this evening.

  [he heads for the exit, but Sisko holds him back] 

  Commander Sisko : I think you ought to postpone that visit... for a day or two.

• Commander Sisko : [to Chief O'Brien about Quark]  Easy, Chief. He doesn't know what he's doing.

  [points to Lwaxana, they all look at her] 

  Lwaxana Troi : What are you looking at me for?

  [Cuts to sickbay] 

  Lwaxana Troi : Zanthi Fever? Oh, that's ridiculous. That's impossible. That only affects older Betazoids.

  Doctor Bashir : That may be, but according to my tests, you show all the symptoms. Zanthi Fever is a virus which affects the empathic abilities of, uh, mature Betazoids. It causes them to project their emotions onto others.

  Commander Sisko : Then Mrs. Troi's amorous feelings for... someone on the station were being passed along to the people around her?

  Doctor Bashir : Not everyone. Only those within close proximity to her when she had an attack, and even then, they would've had to have been with some preexisting latent attraction.

  Commander Sisko : You're saying Dax...?

  Doctor Bashir : Only on a subconscious level. Best not to think about it too much if you ask me.

  Lwaxana Troi : I am terribly sorry, Commander. I hope I haven't caused too much trouble.