Here’s a question or a nitpick.

Back in DS9’s third season during “Life Support” When Bashir’s doing that surgery on Bareil, he’s able to replace part of Bareil’s brain with cybernetic parts and implies he could do the same to the other hemisphere but then he wouldn’t necessarily be Bareil anymore. Well that last part’s a matter of opinion as Bareil had the personality of a wet noodle anyway my main question is, How Different is replacing a brain with Cybernetic Parts to creating a Positronic Matrix, aka Data’s Brain?

Bashir was retconned with being genetically altered (but it fit in so perfectly with his character and his actions) could he have actually done so. I haven’t watched Life Support in a while so I don’t know if I’m misremembering but it. I just imagine Data showing Bashir Lal and maybe, just maybe Bashir has a flash of inspiration….

Or I might just be rambling