Character Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · 2373

Bennett

Judge Advocate General who rules on Bashir

The Starfleet rear admiral and Judge Advocate General who decides Julian Bashir's fate after his illegal genetic enhancement is exposed, accepting a bargain offered by the doctor's father.

Rear Admiral Bennett appears in Doctor Bashir, I Presume, played by J. Patrick McCormack.
In 2373 the secret that Bashir was genetically enhanced as a child comes out during Lewis Zimmerman's visit to Deep Space 9. Federation law bars such people from Starfleet and from practising medicine. Rather than let his son resign, Richard Bashir contacts the Judge Advocate General and offers to plead guilty.
Bennett, speaking by subspace, agrees that Julian may keep his commission and medical licence if Richard serves two years in a minimum-security penal colony in New Zealand. He defends the severity of the law by recalling Khan Singh and the Eugenics Wars, arguing that for every Julian Bashir there may be a superhuman tyrant.