Split Personality

This article is about the Star Trek story. For the mental phenomenon, see Plurality.

Star Trek DS9 Fanfiction
Title:	Split Personality
Author(s):	Paula Stiles
Date(s):	1998
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Fandom:	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
External Links:	Available at the author's site
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Split Personality is a Star Trek: DS9 story by Paula Stiles.

Reactions and Reviews

Another excellent story by Paula. This one's a sequel to "The Passenger" episode from season one, and even though at the time I'd never seen "The Passenger," I still could follow and enjoy the story tremendously. This is a very unsettling and at times downright scarey portrayal of Bashir--kicking the hell out of Worf (which I loved!), beating up Sisko, and frying the jerk who stole his teddy bear. This ain't the Bashir you see on TV folks, but the characterization make perfect sense within the context of this carefully crafted, exciting story.

Back in the first season episode "The Passenger," Bashir's body got hijacked by a fugitive consciousness (if you don't know, don't ask), and actor Siddig El Fadil had to do a really terrible Evol accent. The episode was not one of DS9's finest. Quite possibly the opposite. Yet from the lemons of suckitude, Paula Stiles wrote a great little story. "Split Personality" finds the DS9 crew trying to prevent a mad scientist from unleashing, well, mad science, upon a whole lot of people. The success of the story lies in Paula's ability to make the crisis and the conflict personal. "Split Personality" it's the rare story which really captures the complexity of Julian Bashir's character Bashir's backstory is full of fascinating but often contradictory elements: his genetic engineering, his teddy bear, his penchant for baiting admirals, his stubborn idealism, and his inconvenient habit of getting kidnapped, possessed, or stranded in war zones. Somehow, Paula weaves all of these layers into a coherent story, and the result is a fascinating and compassionate exploration of a guy who alternates between escaping from Dominion prisons and sleeping with his teddy bear.