on the part of Avery Brooks and that Garak was "born to play a Bond sidekick". Keith DeCandido, writing for Tor.com, said that it was obvious that the actors enjoyed their new parts in this episode and said of the episode, "holy crap is it fun". In particular, he praised both Avery Brooks and Nana Visitor in their Bond-esque roles, saying that Brooks made a villain on par with those played by Donald Pleasence, Christopher Lee, and Javier Bardem. DeCandido gave "Our Man Bashir" a rating of nine out of ten. In a list of the top 100 episodes of the Star Trek franchise, "Our Man Bashir" was placed in 77th place by Charlie Jane Anders at io9. She noted it as being one of goofiest Deep Space Nine episodes. In 2012, Den of Geek ranked this the seventh best episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A 2015 binge-watching guide for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by WIRED recommended not skipping this essential episode. In 2016, Empire ranked this the 23rd best out of the top 50 episodes of all the 700 plus Star Trek television episodes. In 2020, Io9 said this was one of the "must watch" episodes from the series. Awards The episode was nominated for two Emmy Awards, in the categories "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series" (for the score by Jay Chattaway) and "Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series". Home media release The first home media release of "Our Man Bashir" was as a two-episode VHS cassette alongside "The Sword of Kahless" in the United Kingdom on June 13, 1996, followed in the United States and Canada by a single-episode release on October 3, 2000. It was later released on DVD as part of the season four box set on August 5, 2003. Footnotes References External links 1995 American television episodes Holography in television Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 4) episodes Television episodes written by Ronald D. Moore