#the Visitor

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The Visitor (Elo Tust, 1979)

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Guess who's hyperfixating on final fantasy!!!

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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 [the visitor, s4ep3]

'I should have just kept trying to find you. I just went on with my life.' - jake

'And I'm proud of what you've accomplished.' - benjamin

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Thanks for the feels, Tony Todd.

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The Visitor

Sculpture by Alejandro Cardenas

Patinated bronze, marble and metal hardware, 2022

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[a-most-beloved-fool]

How much do you think Sisko knows about what happened in the background of The Visitor, when Jake was growing older? Do you think he thought about how different that world was, the world in which he died and stayed dead?

In the thick of the Dominion War, I imagine it would keep him up at night, remembering that universe in which the Federation had avoided war, or at least delayed it by over 50 years. Would it have been better, he might ask himself, if I had just died? Better for the Federation? Better for Bajor? How many more people would still be alive, if he had just died? How many children will now never be born?

After Jadzia dies, he'd probably dwell on it again. She was still alive, in that alternate future when they never went to war. She was still alive. Would he blame himself? Would he wish, just for a moment, that he could change what had happened?

Don't get me wrong: I don't think he truly would have changed anything. I think that he always has to hope, and that choosing life is a part of that. But I think it may haunt him.

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[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Visitor (Elo Tust, 1979)

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I’ve been watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for the first time and I’m finally in season 4 but the episode I just watched was The Visitor and wow was it an episode. There was so much raw emotion in it and the commanding performances of Tony Todd as adult Jake and Avery Brooks was quite literally otherworldly. I’ve had series endings bring tears to my eyes and various episodes do the same but nothing quite like this. The Visitor hits way different especially because of Benjamin and Jake’s relationship.

[deepspacetits]

The Visitor kills me everytime. Imagine living your life and your dad who you love so much dies in front of you. Except he doesn’t. Because he keeps reappearing over and over again. You grow and age and he shows up in front of you the exact same as the last time you saw him. He’s in a perpetual state of dead and alive, like schrodingers cat, and you hold onto hope for decades and decades and dedicate your life to finding him again. And it doesn’t work, not this time and not the next time and you have nothing to your life outside of finding your dad again and he tells you to let him go. To find yourself. And you do at some point. But only after figuring out how to get him back, how to send him home. Back to the you who first saw your dad die all those years ago. You’ll be dead, but that’s okay because in a way you’ll never have lived. And so now you live your life and you wait for him to return so your younger self can live the life you never got. And that’s okay.

Imagine being Benjamin Sisko. You die and in bursts of time you watch your son grow in short fragments on time. He grows older than you. He loses everything he was outside of finding you. And finally in front of you he dies. Your son dies in front of you, old and tired and full of grief. And you’re sent back. To the son who first saw you die. But you know what could have been.

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In this reality, I am yours.

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