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By Joshua Tyler
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When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine He finished his seven -season run, left the future captain of the show, Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), hanging. He does not die in battle, retire to a vineyard, or warps into the sunset. He ascend.
In the final Deep space nine A chapter, “What You Leave Behind,” Sisko is facing a narrow dukat-now ship for the pah-writ-in the fire caves on Bajor. With a last, desperate movement, he ramms both into the flames. Instead of dying, Sisko is taken by the prophets, the godly alien Lives in the Bajoran worm hole. It disappears from reality and becomes something … another.
Seconds later, it appears to Kasidy Yates (Penny Johnson), his pregnant wife, in a vision. It’s okay – kind of. He says he is with the prophets, teaches, and exists beyond linear time. He promises to return eventually. But the show ends without giving us that moment. The man who crushed q in his face once left living in an everlasting kingdom of alien Gods.
Now, there seems to be Star Trek’s new series, Starfleet AcademyIt can give us some closure on Sisko. According to the show’s first vehicle, a single frame shows a student studying on Sisko. The exhibition title is “The Fate of Benjamin Sisko.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comes on coming Star Trek: Discover Spinoff series set in the 32nd century. It follows the first class of Starfleet cadets in over a century as they train to become officers in the midst of galaxy rebuilding. Holly Hunter stars as Captain and Academy Chancellor, alongside an ensemble of recruits and returns legacy characters as Robert Picardo as the doctor.
Guessing anyone is how deeply the show will dive into Sisko’s previous myths. As a fan, hopefully this exhibition is all we get. I do not trust Star Trek: Discovery’s Writing team to handle anything as important as this.
Although there is no Canon’s explanation of Sisko’s last fate, there are plenty of stories other than Canon about what happens after his ascension.
In the Non-Canonian Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Novels, Sisko comes back. About a year after disappearing, he has returned to linear time from the prophets. He rejoins Kasidy and meets his daughter, Rebecca. But it has changed – treated by what he saw, what it is. For a while, he ditches Starfleet and tries to live daily life on Bajor. That goes as well as you would expect a man who used to commune with aliens and command fleets.
Sisko eventually rejoins Starfleet and takes control of the USS RobeHeavy Examiner ship sent into the gamma quadrant. It becomes part of galactic politics, brushing against the lordship, Typhon’s agreement, and the uneasy future of the alpha quadrant. He is still the emissary. Still captain. Still trying to be a father and a legend at the same time.
Undo that timeline ultimately. In 2021’s Get up Trilogy-evacuation of multilateral fracking books-the whole new continuation is collapsing. The return of Sisko, his ship, the future of his family – he all disappears into the void.
So what is Sisko’s last fate? Canon says: He is with the prophets and may return some day. He says: He did. Then it was removed. He is Captain Schrödinger. Let’s keep it that way.
