Actor Alexander Siddig, who played the plucky, handsome young medical officer Dr.
Julian Bashir on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” began the series credited as Siddig El Fadil, his professional name from the start of his career until he changed it in 1995.
Dr.
Bashir was something of a naïf in the show’s first few seasons, and would, in subsequent seasons, come to outgrow his once-firmly-held immature notions that practicing medicine in desperate locations is a bright, plucky adventure.
He quickly came to realize that he merely needed to work hard to help people in need, and that righteousness was a reward unto itself.
Unlike a lot of the “young” characters on “Star Trek” (Wesley Crusher and Harry Kim come to mind), Dr.
Bashir was allowed to grow up; he had personality traits other than his youth. In the indispensable oral history book “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The…
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