#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.

[star-trek-likes-vs-dislikes]

How about Grandpa Sisko?

[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 Joseph Sisko [homefront, s4ep11]

'You may want to test everyone, but that doesn't mean we all have to cooperate.

I didn't take an oath to Starfleet. Neither did Jake or your sister or anyone in your family. We have rights, Ben...

What you're asking me to do is wrong. You can't go around making people prove they are who they say they are. That's no way to live, and I'm not going to go along with it.' - joseph [to sisko]

[quasi-normalcy]

Found this on Facebook

[annegris]

Star Trek showing us the most unbelievable things from the future...

Like parents and children having the kind of relationship where they trust and love each other and show it effortlessly.

(I mean, I have a good relationship with my Mom, but the effortlessness gets to me still)

[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 "Explorers" 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...!!)

[defconprime]

[raurquiz]

#blackhistorymonth #startrek #uhura #richarddaystrom #mbenga #admiralcatwright #iman #laforge #worf #guinan #kurn #commandersirol #maejameson #silvalaforge #lilysloane #sisko #jakesisko #josephsisko #kassidyyates #calvinhudson #tuvok #krall #mayweather #burham #joanowosekun #drpollard #raffimusiker

[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

[enbycrip]

Mmmm, creole-style hasperat

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#1253

It’s weird how Benjamin Sisko supposedly has multiple (half) siblings but they’re scarcely mentioned and we never see them. It’s kinda like the opposite of Spock having 2 siblings who are never talked about except when they directly appear in the series or movies. I do like the idea that Joseph Sisko wasn’t left with no children after Benjamin became a Prophet tho.

[best-star-trek-character]

Round Two

[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

[waterme-stories]

Literally restaurants are so hard to make profitable, too. 60% of restaurants close within the first year, and that's with the owners working themselves to the bone, 12+ hour days, 7 days a week. Just to fail anyway.

Imagine a world where you could start your dream restaurant without worrying about income (for yourself or operational overhead). Where you could work reasonable hours, at a reasonable pace. Where if someone pulled “the customer is always right” you could tell them to fuck off and find a replicator.

It's the pipedream of anyone who's ever started a restaurant out of love only to find themself crushed under the weight of late-stage capitalism.

People also try to 'prove' Star Trek is secretly capitalist by using Joseph Sisko's restaurant as a gotcha. Would he really cook for people all day if he wasn't getting paid

And like. Yeah? Why do we accept people would join Starfleet or take up painting without a profit motive but it's unbelievable someone would choose to run a restaurant. It's an art but also "make a restaurant and make food for people all day" is, in fact, a dream a lot of people have. There are plenty of people whose dream life in a post-capitalist society is exactly that. He's not a landlord who just owns property, in fact those we don't see anywhere in the future. He's a dude who likes cooking who's cooking. Why are the goalposts now "to end capitalism, you must end cooking and winemaking or it doesn't count"

[schn-tgai-saavik]

Original Characters from The Pandora Principle by Carolyn Clowes

The novel has a lot of original character interwoven and expertly used alongside known Star Trek ones, and they deserve their own post.

Part 4: The Baseball Team Cadets

Koji: A large, husky cadet who plays as catcher in the baseball team. He is present at the tryouts and catches as Saavik pitches after her first throw knocking out the coach.

Walker: Player who was considered an inept pitcher, yet the only one who could throw straight before Saavik's arrival to the team.

Coach Joe: The coach of the baseball team, who is quite worried at the lack of pitcher before Saavik's arrival to the tryouts. He is a seemingly irritated, and apparently because he has other problems. He is described as having brown skin. (Given his name and link to baseball, he could be Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko from DS9, a fun easter egg if I am correct!)

Tommy: Pink skinned human with spotty skin, he is along with Coach Joe one of the team's leaders, likely the team captain. He agrees to Saavik trying out for the team even as Coach Joe dismisses her at first, explaining to her the rudiment of pitching.