aside from the ‘see i’m wearing her down’ bullshit the 90s required him to do 1-3 times a season, basically everything Bashir does that allegedly made him annoying or unlikable to early audiences just makes him a way better character and also, very very funny from the jump. He’s just out of his mind but very unassuming and well intentioned about it and he will eagerly play god for you if you give him even a slightly normal sounding justification. Dr John Starfleet director of starfleet medical was just like “Well with your grades why would you want to go work at Deep Space Nine, an abandoned shopping mall somehow stationed on both sides of the Space Iron Curtain” one day and Bashir was just like “Sir i’ll try anything once sir” in response and boy did he ever