#Joseph sisko

[dreadbirate]

Creole food becomes popular on Bajor after Sisko leaves to be with the The Prophets because of its connection with him, and they even innovate on it with local Bajoran ingredients.

Sisko’s Creole Kitchen in New Orleans becomes an occasional pilgrimage site for Bajorans who want to see the place that The Emissary was raised. Joseph is generally unfazed by this and doesn’t change the restaurant for the new visitors, but he does sometimes tell stories of Ben’s childhood if they’re really polite.

[no-side-us]

When your crew start learning to play baseball

When someone says they enjoyed your jambalaya

[capsfromtrek]

[logicheartsoul]

A Series of Gifs of the Sisko Family

[ID: The first gif is of Benjamin Sisko, a black man, and Kasidy Yates, a black woman, sharing a soft, tender kiss. The second gif is of Joseph Sisko, Benjamin’s father, also a black man, who is looking at Benjamin, who is holding and looking at a necklace in his hand. In the background is Benjamin’s son, Jake, drying his hands with a towel. They are located in Joseph’s restaurant on Earth, specifically, New Orleans. The third gif is of Benjamin, Kasidy, and Jake, sitting in the living area of their shared quarters on the space station Deep Space Nine. Kasidy is looking at Ben, while Ben rubs his hands together, not able to look at either of them. Jake sits across from Ben and is shaking his head while holding his hands together clasped.]

[quasi-normalcy]

Found this on Facebook

[purplespacekitty]

Three generations of Sisko men gathered close for a jambalaya dinner in Ben's ancient Bajoran lightship, as illustrated by celebrated science fiction writer, Benny Russell. Russell keeps a souvenir baseball on his desk, signed by the legendary Willie Hawkins. In the corner, Russell stashes the sketch that gave him the inspiration for this family's story: space station Deep Space Nine.

Deep Space Nine is my favorite Trek. It has nuanced, 3-dimensional characters who become part of the show's world over the course of 7 seasons. There are some off plot lines here and there but for the most part, the story seems to write itself. I've written at length on here about how much I love Captain Benjamin Sisko and I'd like to share a project of mine I did for a class (I have so far managed to fit Star Trek into three separate final projects for three separate classes, one of which I already posted about here).

Through the lens of Sisko's character, I wanted to examine Deep Space Nine's portrayal of Black masculinity, fatherhood and Afrofuturism with three episodes (although one's a two-parter): "Homefront" (Part I), "Paradise Lost" (Part II), "Explorers" (which I made a post about here) and "Far Beyond the Stars". Initially, the idea was to focus on Ben's fatherhood to Jake, how from the viewer's side of the screen, the two of them break down numerous racial stereotypes around Black men, an important thing to remember with DS9's debut not being far removed from the end of the Reagan Administration, from which sprung stereotypes of "absent Black fathers" and "welfare queens." As I continued with this project, I found I also wanted to analyze how Sisko's relationship with his own father informs his parenting of Jake and what it means to have three generations of Siskos in one room, on one planet. That was how I got "Explores" and "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" in there, as I wanted to showcase episodes that focus on these exact dynamics.

"Far Beyond the Stars" offers a window into Earth's history as a commentary on racism within creative circles and the systemic racism that shapes the world we live in today and the world of Deep Space Nine. It not only invites viewers into the life of Benny Russell, a Black science fiction writer from the 1950s, but also invites us to consider the link between the future he envisioned of the life that Sisko leads in the 24th century as a Black spaceship/space station captain, father, son, husband and cook who carries the weight of his ancestors' legacy on his shoulders and the reality Russell himself lives in day by day. "You are the dreamer and the dream" has a whole lot more gravity to it when you recognize it as less of an obvious observation of what we've known and been shown throughout the episode (Avery Brooks plays both Sisko and Russell) and more of a nod to the Black future that Sisko inhabits and that Russell dreams of. As a creation of Benny Russell, Sisko and his family are Afrofuturism in a nutshell, carrying on the cultures, stories and knowledge of their ancestors as they live their lives in a future those ancestors imagined and built. Furthermore, Benny Russell's Deep Space Nine is not only important because it features a Black space station captain but also because it encapsulates a fragment of Russell's drive to write his own stories for himself and his Black readers, to breathe life into his creations, to share his art in the ways that he wants to. To cherish his experiences and ideas and imagination and reality through the creative process of putting pen to paper, stamping ink to page, painting scenes to canvas.

The DS9 finale was originally going to see Benny Russell wistfully wandering the promenade alone and implicate him as the creator of not just the story of Deep Space Nine, but of the Star Trek franchise as a whole. Obviously, this concept did not make the cut, but Strange New Worlds' "Elysium Kingdom" follows another story written by Russell, solidifying him as a real person who lived in the 20th century within the Star Trek universe and who presumably continued to write stories that got published after the events of "Shadows and Symbols".

Comprised of screenshots from "Explorers", "Homefront", "Paradise Lost", "Far Beyond the Stars", "Shadows and Symbols" and "Civil Defense" - in which Dukat flicks Sisko's baseball off his desk - (and also a picture of a random coffee table taken by me because we see surprisingly very little of Benny's desk), the collage above is my humble attempt to honor Benny Russell and his creative vision.

[vaguely-concerned]

cinnamon tophography.....

(they made my brain do such a cool little lurch when the imagery fell into place tho holy shit. joseph sisko framed by the bars of a cage, and us realizing with sinking dread that he's not looking out of that cage -- he's looking in, at where his son is in this moment, imprisoned by mounting (inevitable) paranoia and suffocating responsibility...!!)

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#1010

Despite the focus on Nyota Uhura, I'm still very frustrated with her writing. I wish they didn't kill off most part of her family or even her mentor Hemmer. If we look at Ben Sisko, he was well written but what make a character interesting is the interaction and relationship with other side characters: Ben had Jake Sisko, Joseph Sisko, Dax and of course he had other friendship, but that was the starting background for him. It's important for the evolution of a character because right now I feel like the only background we have for Nyota is how smart and brillant she is as a Starfleet officer. And that all.

[defconprime]

[old-type-40]

"You're seeing shape-shifters everywhere. Maybe you ought to think about something for a minute. If I was a smart shape-shifter, a really good one, the first thing I would do would be to grab some poor soul off the street, absorb every ounce of his blood, and let it out on cue whenever someone like you tried to test me. Don't you see? There isn't a test that's been created a smart man can't find his way around. You aren't going to catch shape-shifters using some gadget." - Joseph Sisko (Star Trek DS9 - Homefront)

It was never really addressed on screen but Joseph Sisko was later proven right. The original changelings could fake the blood test as was demonstrated when General Martok did the whole knife to the hand thing to prove he was real. But they didn't find out he was a changeling until much later.

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[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller [homefront, s4ep11]

'I'm going to say this one time and one time only. I am fine. I'm happy, I'm healthy, and I'm planning on celebrating at least fifty more birthdays.' - joseph sisco

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

Joseph Sisko’s restaurant is a subtle but surprisingly invaluable look at how “businesses” like restaurants might operate on the post-money Earth Star Trek posits

[v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e]

thinking that maybe the Changelings from Star Trek: Picard decided to heed Joseph Sisko’s advice

[raurquiz]

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[enbycrip]

Mmmm, creole-style hasperat