Bashir gets "Palpatined"-to-the-max in "Distant Voices"

Is it possible for the DS9 writers to copy ROTJ, and bestow Sith powers to a random alien with horns in his face so he can then straight-up electrocute the sh"t out of Bashir?
 a) yes

Is it possible that I laughed really, really hard at this?
  a)yes