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Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe, played by Avery Brooks. He was the commander, then captain of the space station Deep Space Nine and the starship USS Defiant in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Throughout the series, Ben Sisko is in charge of the Bajoran sector, a new frontier for the Federation. As the series begins, Captain Jean-Luc Picard briefs Sisko, telling him that Bajor needs help to regain what it had lost during the Cardassian Occupation of their planet. By chance (or so it was thought at the time), Sisko and his crew discover a stable wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, and the aliens living therein—the Bajoran Prophets. This discovery leads the Bajorans to acclaim him as the Emissary of the Prophets, a role about which Benjamin is decidedly ambivalent through at least the first part of the series.
As the storyline evolves, however, Sisko comes to accept his role, and discovers the part the Prophets are to play in his life, particularly as the Prophets intervene in the Dominion War and gradually reveal his destiny as being integral to that of Bajor. In fact, it is finally revealed that his mother, Sarah, was the incarnation of a Prophet—he was born to serve as the Emissary.
In the end, his destiny comes to fruition as he confronts Gul Dukat, possessed by a Pah Wraith—the antithesis of the Prophets—and destroys him by pushing both Dukat and the text of the Kostamogen into the fire pits. Shortly afterwards, Sarah informs him that it is him time to live with and learn from the Prophets; Ben says a final goodbye to his wife, Kasidy, implying that, since time is not linear with the Prophets, it may not actually be such a long time before she sees him again.
Throughout the series, Benjamin distinguished himself as an brilliant military commander over the course of the Dominion War, as well as before the war against threat forces as varied as the Dominion, the Breen, the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Cardassians.
Benjamin was the son of Joseph Sisko, a chef in New Orleans. Ben is the father of Jake Sisko and the widower of Jennifer Sisko, who was killed at the Battle of Wolf 359 while Benjamin was the first officer of the USS Saratoga. During the last season of the series, Benjamin married Kasidy Yates, who at the end of the series was carrying his child.
For several years Sisko maintained a slight hatred towards Picard due to Picard's role as Locutus of Borg in the Battle of Wolf 359. The novelization of "The Emissary" says that Sisko let go of that hatred and learned to see that Picard was just as much of a victim as Sisko was, if not more so. But on television, it's not clear if Sisko continued to blame Picard or not.
Initially, Sisko had hair — some fans have said that this was in order to distinguish him from Captain Picard. In the fourth season a number of changes were made to Deep Space Nine. One of these changes was that Sisko had decided to completely shave his head, a look that Sisko had maintained since that time.
External links
- Benjamin Sisko (http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Benjamin_Sisko) at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek WikiWiki
- StarTrek.com: Benjamin Sisko (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/DS9/character/1112421.html)
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