Fandoms collide: I recently realized that Joan/Sherlock and Bashir/Garak are actually the same relationship.
Bashir and Watson:
- Are really excellent doctors
- Have secret pasts that endanger their ability to practice medicine
- Love their parents, but have massive parental approval issues
- Want badly to understand their mysterious counterparts (and are willing to violate patient privacy a bit to do so)
- Are often underestimated
- Are adorable badasses who get shit done
Garak and Holmes:
- Are considered experts, even geniuses, in their specialty
- Have jobs full of danger and death and lies
- Are recovering addicts
- Live in a foreign place
- Are secretive about their pasts
- Sometimes tell emotional truths through lies
- Have cold, manipulative jerks for fathers
- Take delight in annoying their doctors
- Have artistic skills which seem ill-matched to their trade
Mind. Blown.

