Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Julian Bashir

There are two things you should never ask anyone in the UK if you plan on living: 'Is it "scone" to rhyme with "cone" or "scone" to rhyme with "gone,"' and, 'Does the jam or the cream go on first?' Why we are so obsessed over the minutiae of this one baked good is a mystery, although they are delicious. However you say it, Doctor Bashir happened to be partial to a scone, too.

I doubt that its pronunciation ('to rhyme with gone' for Bashir) was part of the test for Section 31, and in any case, in Inquisition, the Doctor got a plateful of gagh in place of his order of hot buttered scones, moba jam, and red leaf tea. Whilst the holographic Worf was presumably tucking in, Sloan and company continued the interrogation-turned-recruitment-pitch.

Although basically ordered by Captain Sisko to play along next time, Bashir never really did get the chance to act out his holosuite spy fantasy in the real world. Bashir did remain absolute in his admonition of the clandestine organisation and paragraph of the Starfleet Charter, nonetheless, even if he and O'Brien would later go to some extreme… lengths to try to get at some of Section 31's secrets.

In the hypothetical of the season eight opener devised and discussed by former Star Trek: Deep Space Nine writers and producers in What We Left Behind, Bashir was a member of Section 31 by 2395, if not "running the goddamn thing," at least to Robert Hewitt Wolfe's mind. A common theme, perhaps. In Alone Together: A DS9 Companion, set about 25 years after the end of the Dominion War, Bashir is also "coordinating the activities of Section 31". He's probably settled the great scone debates, too!