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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rejoined Through The Looking Glass
I know how you feel about Lenara.
#trekedit#ds9edit#benjamin sisko#jadzia dax#jennifer sisko#ep: rejoined#i'm never not thinking about 'i know how you feel about lenara'#he does know. he really does.#ds9#star trek ds9
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star trek has always handled trauma/mental illness well imo but sisko explaining to the prophets in the first episode that humans live in linear time and can't ever go back... and then the prophets are so confused and show him his wife dying and ask "but you exist here?" that was. that one.... hit
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#star trek#star trek ds9#ds9#star trek deep space nine#st ds9#star trek the next generation#tng#st tng#star trek tng#ben sisko#benjamin sisko#commander sisko#captain sisko#beverly crusher#dr crusher#jean luc picard#captain picard#locutus of borg#Picard#jake sisko#wesley crusher#wolf 359#jack crusher#Jennifer sisko#star trek memes
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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE // S3E19 Through the Looking Glass The way I see it, freedom is a whole lot better than slavery.
#trekedit#star trek#star trek deep space nine#benjamin sisko#miles o'brien#kira nerys#jennifer sisko#garak#jadzia dax#star trek*#ds9*#dso 3x19#sisko*#miles o'brien*#kira*#jennifer sisko*#garak*#jadzia dax*#avery brooks#colm meaney#felecia m. bell#nana visitor#andrew robinson#terry farrell#my gifs
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds "Lost in Translation" &
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Emissary"
#the parallel line immediately called back to emissary for me.#Star Trek#Star Trek Strange New Worlds#Star Trek Deep Space Nine#SNW#DS9#Lost in Translation#Lost in Translation (episode)#Emissary#Nyota Uhura#Uhura#Benjamin Sisko#snwedit#startrekedit#ds9edit#scifiedit#James T. Kirk#Jennifer Sisko#GIF#my gifs#spoilers#snw spoilers#Danny and Renae watch SNW#Hide and Queue#flashing gif
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Happy 31st Anniversary to DS9!!
#ds9#deep space nine#julian bashir#benjamin sisko#jadzia dax#kira nerys#jake sisko#jennifer sisko#gifs#emissary
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Shout out the rebels. They were hopeless, they were beaten down. People in the utopia dismiss their world as intrinsically evil.
But they stood up. They fought back.
Feel like this energy is needed right now
#star trek#star trek deep space nine#star trek ds9#mirror universe#mirrorverse#terran rebellion#rebellion#rebel#resist#resist today resist tomorrow#mirror sisko#benjamin sisko#jadzia dax#miles o’brien#smiley#ezri tigan#Ezri#leeta#rom#jennifer sisko#tuvok#julian bashir
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#771
If Jennifer Sisko would have been a borg it could have been interesting. I don't understand why some people think this idea is a rip off of Seven's plot. Seven didn't have any strong tie to a family. I wonder how Borg! Jennifer would have fit again with Ben and Jake. Maybe it would end in a divorce ? And Ben would still end up with Kasidy ? I think it's interesting to see the struggle of a Federation citizen outside Starfleet plot and how the borg conflict (or any conflict) hit people in a very personal scale.
#confession 771#star-trek-fandom-confessions#star trek#deep space nine#jennifer sisko#borg#seven of nine#benjamin sisko#jake sisko#kasidy yates
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Magnifying Glass: "Explorers"
Episode: "Explorers"
Series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Season 3, Episode 22
Original Air Date: May 8, 1995
Teleplay Writer: René Echevarria
Screenwriter: Hilary J. Bader
Director: Cliff Bole
“Explorers” provides a window into which we, the audience, peer and see dimensions of Sisko’s character and his relationship with Jake that he is not often allowed to nurture. He’s the captain of a space station; he’s busy at all times of the day with the demands of his crew, of the governments of Bajor and Cardassia and with the imminent threat of invasion from the elusive yet brutal Dominion. In this episode, Sisko gets the time to spend doing something he is purely passionate about, exercising his creativity and the side of him that’s a big history nerd (”Why [build an ancient Bajoran lightship by hand]? Because it’ll be fun!”). We also get to see him spend some quality time with his son, Jake.
For a project of mine exploring Afrofuturism and Black masculinity, I chose this episode as one of three to study and analyze under Sisko’s importance as a character not just within the Star Trek franchise but in the broader world of television.
Benjamin Sisko’s role as a Black father is particularly pertinent to the plot of “Explorers”. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first aired in 1993, not far removed from the hell that was the Reagan Administration. Reagan contributed grossly during his presidency to the denigration and humiliation of popular notions of the Black family and the framing of Black Americans as criminals. Mainstream films and television during and before the era, if they include Black characters at all, portray Black men as aggressive, violent and insolent, an image very much in line with Reagan’s manipulative message. Avery Brooks’ casting in Deep Space Nine as it’s Starfleet commander was an historic first for the Star Trek franchise and a step against the popular stereotypes of “welfare queens” and “absent Black fathers.” Ben Sisko - whose most defining characteristic aside from being the commander and later, captain of a space station is being a father to his son Jake - completely demolishes the “absent Black father” stereotype and all the others, firstly, by just existing. Sisko is very present in Jake’s life. Even with his duties keeping him at the station’s beck and call, he makes the time he spends with his son an unconditional priority and is quick to assure Jake of that fact. The two of them share common interests in cooking and baseball, threads that bind them to each other and to Jake’s grandfather, Joseph, who owns and runs the family restaurant back on Earth. Sisko is diligent in his care of Jake as he is for all that he loves. He is an actively loving, caring, protective and supportive father every step of the way. Sisko’s strong sense of justice means that Jake can’t really get away with his and Nog’s various shenanigans, but he is lenient and fair and always there to comfort Jake when anything goes wrong. There are multiple moments throughout the series in which they both learn from each other (this episode being one of them): a quality of their relationship that Sisko warmly welcomes. It is Jake’s care for and faith in his Ferengi friend that helps Nog earn Sisko’s respect. Their closeness allows them to have difficult conversations, to resolve arguments in a place of understanding and compassion, to be vulnerable with one another unconditionally. While initially disappointed when Jake tells him he’d rather be a writer than follow in his father’s footsteps by enrolling in Starfleet Academy, Sisko is ultimately supportive of his son’s interests because all he wants is for Jake to be safe and happy. Which is where this episode picks up from the last time the two of them discussed Jake’s future.
At this point in the series, Jake is ready to apply to college and has been hard at work writing pieces to submit to schools he’s interested in. Yet, even with his father’s enthusiastic blessing to pursue what brings him joy, Jake is hesitant to share his acceptance to Pennington back on Earth. Not because he thinks his father will be angry with him about going behind his back but because he doesn’t want his dad to be alone. By no means would they be losing each other to this new stage of Jake’s life. However, it would be the longest time they’ve spent truly apart from each other and they wouldn’t even be in the same region of space. They certainly won’t be able to go off on impromptu trips in ancient space ships on a whim or watch historical baseball games in the holosuites together as often as they do on DS9. And above all, what this episode most emphasizes is their father-son relationship, this relationship in which they are each other’s security in a turbulent, violent world that placed them at the threshold of a wormhole in the middle of a war-torn sector of the galaxy directly after losing Jake’s mother and Ben’s wife, Jennifer. Whether or not either of them are ready for it, Jake going off to Pennington means that that security in each other will change. Hence Jake’s ultimate decision to defer admission for a year to spend more time with his father and gather more experiences to write about.
This episode showcases our hero doing exactly what Starfleet is all about: exploring the cultures of other worlds and engaging with their ways of knowledge. At the same time, he is beginning an exploration of what life will be like with Jake off at school (and what life will be like with a beard) and he is also getting an insight into his son’s inner world. Both are journeys the two of them embark on together, even if one must be undertaken across many lightyears of space.
Sisko stands out as an intentionally Black character against the backdrop of the undeniably important if, comparatively, rather flat representation in Lt. Nyota Uhura and Lt. Geordi LaForge. Deep Space Nine’s writers and Avery Brooks made a conscious effort to ensure that Benjamin Sisko’s Blackness was not simply seasoning sprinkled sparsely on top of his character, but instead the essential binding factor that brought all the elements of the Captain’s personality together. Not only do we know he has his family’s Creole restaurant to thank for his cooking skills, but we get to see him be at home and with family more than once in this series. And aside from what is clearly directly tied to his Blackness, he has other interests and hobbies, like baseball, building, art and studying ancient technologies. He uses his experience as a Black man and father and his deep knowledge of Black Earth history to inform his actions multiple times throughout the series (i.e. “Far Beyond the Stars”, “Past Tense“, “Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang”, “The Abandoned”, “By Inferno’s Light”, “Waltz” and “The Maquis”, to name a few). In this episode, we even see him wearing a top inspired by West African dashiki patterns.
Commissioned on Deep Space Nine, his identity as a Black man, even in the supposedly utopian Federation, positions him as someone able to sympathize with the Bajorans in a way that none of his contemporaries Kirk, Picard, Archer, Pike, Lorca or Janeway ever could: both his people and theirs have histories of violent systemic oppression and persecution, as well as continuously developing histories of liberation. He understands their need to reclaim their land, knowledge and ways of life because that is what his ancestors began and saw through. And it is what he, Jake, Joseph and Kasidy, their descendants, carry on and embody in the 24th century. He builds the Bajoran lightship in order to prove that the ancient Bajorans were capable of such technological prowess as to get all the way to Cardassia without a warp drive despite dubiety from both his coworkers and the Cardassians themselves. So not only does he connect with the Bajorans’ struggles in a way that a white human captain cannot, but he actively participates in bolstering the repatriation of their culture and history. Little wonder why the Prophets chose him as their Emissary.
#star trek#star trek ds9#ds9#deep space nine#benjamin sisko#ben sisko#captain sisko#benny russell#avery brooks#jake sisko#joseph sisko#kasidy yates#jennifer sisko#nog#bajoran lightship#black masculinity#black fatherhood#afrofuturism#fuck reagan#racial stereotypes#nyota uhura#geordi laforge#james t kirk#jean luc picard#jonathan archer#christopher pike#gabriel lorca#kathryn janeway#s3e22#explorers
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Jennifer Sisko
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#star trek#ds9#deep space nine#deep space 9#lwaxana troi#keiko o'brien#kira nerys#ishka#jennifer sisko#kasidy yates#leeta#kira meru#mila garak#jadzia dax#dax symbiont
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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 [emissary part ii, s1ep2]
'None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence.' - jennifer
'And I have never figured out how to live without her.' - sisko
'So you choose to exist here. It is not linear.' - jennifer
'No. It's not linear.' - sisko
#star trek#star trek deep space nine#deep space nine#rick berman#Michael Piller#ds9 season 1#deep space nine season 1#ds9 emissary#emissary#ds9 emissary part 2#emissary part 2#lot: st ds9 season 1 ep 2/20 (ep 2/176)#avery brooks#Camille Saviola#Felecia M Bell#benjamin sisko#kai opaka#Jennifer Sisko#It is Not Linear#star trek quotes
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30 Days Of Prodigy, Day 15: Favorite Screenshot
I have a LOT of favorite screenshots, but This is the shot that really gets me.
It's been strongly established from the first episodes that Dal is known to survive anything, by sheer force of hope, ingenuity, and determination.
But it's clear here that losing Gwyn would be the one thing that just breaks him.
The raw emotion from him reminds me of when Benjamin Sisko lost Jennifer at Wolf 359. That's how much Dal loves Gwyn.
#star trek prodigy#30 days of prodigy#30daysofprodigy#save star trek prodigy#dal r'el#gwyndala#gwyn x dal#dal x gwyn#gwyndal#catboots#benjamin sisko#commander sisko#captain sisko#jennifer sisko#star trek#star trek ds9#ds9#deep space nine#the emissary#a moral star
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#best ds9 character competition#elim Garak#garak#plain simple garak#plain simple tailor#Jennifer sisko#ds9#deep space 9#deep space nine#st#Star Trek#best star trek character competition
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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE // S4E20 Shattered Mirror Captain, you never cease to amaze me. Sometimes I even surprise myself.
#trekedit#star trek#star trek deep space nine#benjamin sisko#jake sisko#miles o'brien#kira nerys#jennifer sisko#worf#elim garak#jadzia dax#star trek*#ds9*#ds9 4x20#sisko*#jake sisko*#miles o'brien*#kira*#jennifer sisko*#worf*#garak*#jadzia dax*#avery brooks#cirroc lofton#colm meaney#nana visitor#felecia m. bell#michael dorn#andrew robinson#terry farrell
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