Chief O’Brien’s Friendship Fixed Star Trek DS9’s Dr. Bashir Problem

A friendship with Chief Miles O’Brien (Colm Meaney) saved the character of Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. O’Brien and Bashir became one of Star Trek‘s most enduring double acts across seven seasons of DS9, but the pair had a rocky start. The road to their friendship begins with DS9 season 1, episode 14, “The Storyteller”, in which they travel to a village on Bajor to tend to a medical emergency. The village’s resident storyteller is dying, and without him, the villagers will be consumed by the mysterious Dal’Rok. It’s therefore up to O’Brien to reluctantly take on the mantle of “Sirah” to save the village.