Dear Johnny Fanboy,

Here's another Deep Space Nine Season 4 question for you.

In the episode To the Death Dr Bashir seems to make a very bad diagnosis. Near the beginning of the episode there is a discussion between Sisko and Kira in one of the corridors of the damaged DS9.

The scene opens with Bashir checking a body and saying: "This one's gone" to his helper. Then he moves on to another casualty and says what is wrong with her. The scene then shifts to an over-the-shoulder shot of Sisko talking to Kira and in the background Bashir moves back to the first body and mutters something. Then seconds later he is checking the same body again and this time his helper seems to be administering some aid.

Could it be that the body was never dead and that Bashir is a crap doctor?

Amanda Hughes

Johnny Fanboy replies:

Mistakes like this do happen in the medical profession from time to time. Maybe the words that Bashir mutters are: "Oh, shit, hang on - he's alive after all! Better not let Captain Sisko see that little bit of incompetence."

Alternatively, perhaps what he actually means when he says, "This one's gone" is "This one's gone to sleep"!

Or maybe there were a pair of twins among the patients, one dead and one alive.

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