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Alexander Siddig,kako od ST fana do glumca u DS9.
The third and final chief medical officer in our Star Trek doctors special is Julian Bashir, the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine surgical frontiersman played by Alexander Siddig. His latest acting adventure sees the star swapping his stethoscope for a scimitar as part of Saladin’s advisors in Ridley Scott’s motion picture Crusades epic, Kingdom of Heaven, as Paul Simpson finds out…..
"It’s all going ok,” Alexander Siddig says cautiously when STAR TREK Magazine catches up with him on the set of his new film Kingdom of Heaven, at a secret location in North Africa. Siddig has escaped the rigors of an English winter to appear in Ridley Scott’s new movie, around which a major veil of secrecy has been drawn. “The film stars Orlando Bloom and it has an excellent script,” the actor reveals, “but I can’t say much more than that. It’s a massive operation over here I’ve got slightly sore legs from the horse-riding but it’s all coming together along very nicely. So far, so good.”
The world of the Crusades, nearly a thousand years ago, is a long way from the sterile environment where you might expect to find a 24th Century doctor, but both Siddig and his Star Trek alter ego, Julian Bashir, seem to have a knack of being able to blend into their locales. When he was picked to play the young doctor, Siddig quite deliberately decided not to fill his head with late 20th Century medical detail.
“I had been a fan of the original Star Trek, and I watched quite a lot of The Next Generation, which I thought was a terrific show,” he explains. “I based most of what I did as Bashir on what I saw McCoy and Crusher doing on their shows, rather than what doctors in the real world did. I thought about toying with looking at medical books and research, but it was completely nonsensical.”
Siddig laughs when he contemplates the difference between what goes on in a normal doctor’s surgery, and Bashir’s sickbay on the Deep Space Nine space station. “Star Trek’s notion of medicine is so perfect,” he says. “It always works so well. So knowing how it’s done in the real world didn’t seem to help. On Star Trek you don’t ask someone to cough. You don’t ever look at anybody’s tongue. I realised that obviously medicine had changed a lot, and by the time I got to playing the part, I thought I wasn’t going to get any information from the real doctors. Watching those old episodes of the shows was all the research that I did.”
Although the methodology might have been different, there clearly were parallels between the problems that Bashir faced in the 24th Century and those doctors encounter on present day earth. Siddig was particularly impressed by the way that the ketracel white addiction suffered by the Jem’Hadar was portrayed on the show.
"I thought those parallels were really great,” he enthuses. “It was science fiction at its best. We could really nail the parallel and make it incredibly clear to everyone what was going on. I thought the fact that the Jem’Hadar were forced into being addicts by their cultural system, rather being born or cloned as addicts, was really relevant to what life is like. A lot of people are forced into being addicts by pressures of the system – the pressure to over-achieve for example – and the fact that the Jem’Hadar were so savage, so warrior-like and also naïve, all slipped in nicely with what was going on”.
Siddig recalls that the parallels were even more acute at the time the episodes like Hippocratic Oath were being written and recorded, “I can totally understand the obsession in the modern world of medicine, and science in general, to find ways to avert the crisis of addiction,” he says. “I think it might have been a bigger crisis at the time than it is now, because I remember that Switzerland was just bringing in all sorts of laws to legalise cocaine use in public parks. It was in the news a lot. It’s always good to get your teeth into a script that has some modern relevance.”
Some of Bashir’s finest moments in the series came when he was away from the “safe” confines of the space station and was out as a doctor in the war zone. The real world threw some surprises in his direction, and he didn’t always handle them as well as you might expect from a genius. “I think that was Bashir’s strength as a character,” Siddig points out. “Being the youngest doctor that we had seen in a Star Trek series, he was also very progressive, and I think that possibly led him to make some famous mistakes, like the episode where he nearly killed a whole population of people. But it also meant that he was looking 'outside the envelope', trying to find solutions that were out of the box. He would be unorthodox, and do things that the great and the good doctors in the history of Star Trek wouldn’t have thought of.”
Siddig considers that the rule-breaking Bashir exemplified summed up the whole ethos of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. “That was the strength of our series,” he maintains. “It was totally different because the rule book was totally ignored – although I still think that Gene Roddenberry would have been proud of it. I know it’s specious to talk about that, but I really think that he would have enjoyed the show for what it was. He would probably have balked at it at first, but then really enjoyed it."
The powerful ensemble of actors would also probably have appealed to Roddenberry. “I think we had a really good bunch of very mature actors”, Siddig notes. “They had already done loads, and Cirroc Lofton and myself were probably the only ones who hadn’t had much experience. But it’s like playing football – you play with a good bunch of people, and you get better yourself. I was pulled right up to their level, or I felt like I was anyway. I might be just kidding myself!"
Siddig agrees that the Dominion War episodes, particularly in the fifth and sixth years, were the highlights of the show. “Some people really like the show in the seventh year,” he adds “but I think we’d already left in spirit. I certainly had, and I believe that Avery [Brooks] was desperate not to be there any more. Terry [Farrell] had already left. It was like we were living on the floor and the moving truck had already taken everything out of the house. We just carried on – but thank God we didn’t do an eighth year!”
Many of Siddig’s cast mates have returned to the stage following the end of the series. “I considered doing that at one point, but the contracts are so long,” the actor says. “I was going to work at the Royal Shakespeare Company, but it was just such a long commitment that I couldn’t do it. If the timing is right, and I have the confidence, I would happily do something on stage. But I was never a “stage' actor: I was always a TV and film actor, so I wouldn’t be going back to the stage, I would be starting. I was always a director on stage, never an actor professionally, only ever an actor professionally on screen. Avery, Armin [Shimerman], Rene [Auberjonois] – those guys are stage born and bred. It’s no surprise they’ve headed back there -- it would be too sad a place without them."
Although he has spent some time re-establishing himself in Britain, Siddig hasn’t been absent from the screens for very long. He appeared in the films Vertical Limit and Reign of Fire, and recently was a guest star on the MI5 thriller Spooks. However, most of his roles since ST: DS9 finished have come about through the normal audition process, rather than because of his work in the Star Trek universe.
"Kingdom of Heaven came on the ordinary route through my agent,” he explains. “They put me up for it, and I was lucky enough to meet Ridley Scott for an hour. We chatted away about love, life and the universe and everything, I got the job, and now here I am among all these brilliant people."
If he can, Siddig prefers to play roles which are markedly different from Julian Bashir. “If I am lucky enough,” he amplifies. “If I am offered something that is different from 'He Who I Was for Seven Years', I definitely take it. It’s an almighty struggle, trying to get out of the Star Trek aura. It’s a stereotype that hangs around and I’ve actually lost a couple of jobs on the strength of the fact that I’ve been in Star Trek.”
Siddig realises that he is not alone in this. “It’s been very tough for us all,” he admits, “and I think I probably have been quite lucky, if I look around. I should count my lucky stars and just relax about it. It’s a slow, but hopefully sure progress towards being just an actor, which is what I was before I did Star Trek, and what I am now”.
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@Treki
Za sada su to samo glasine.Trebalo bi sa ST academy bude tema novog ST filma ali nema "svezijih"
informacija o tome.Kao sto je Tzar ranije rekao,i ja kasnije nasao na netu,ima glasina da ce i Kirk pojaviti u novom filmu.Nama ostaje da cekamo.
Definitivno je da se nesto mora napraviti,Enterprajzu se klima tlo pod nogama a i poslednji
film nije doziveo veliki uspeh.
Vreme je za nesto "novo".
Tako da dodji. Dogovorite se ovde pa dodjite svi djuture. 
. Ljudi, DA LI SE IKO SEĆA TOG KATASTROFALNOG PREVODA??? Majke mi, žao mi je što nisam snimao te epizode. Sreća moja što znam engleski, ali ne znam stvarno kako je drukčije serija mogla da se prati.
Ostalo je istorija. Jos jedan fan ST-a je rodjen!! Kasnije sam prosto progutao dobar deo TOS-a, TNG, VOY i deo Enterprise-a i naravno sve filmove.
jedini forum/tema koja se bavi ST-om na nasem prostoru/jeziku,ako ne racunamo
ops: ,sad vec razmisljamo da okupimo sve fanove u SCG-to je nesto! 
