With the assistance of the former Cardassian intelligence officer Garak, Sisko manipulated the Romulans into entering the war as a Federation ally. He lied, cheated, and even became an accomplice to murder in order to get the win for the Federation. Perhaps most shocking of all, Sisko swallowed hard and decided he could live with his actions. It's a choice one could never imagine Picard or Kirk making, but Sisko was a very different man from those two paragons of virtue, a more complicated man with a different set of values.
Sisko's legacy isn't quite what it should be for a simple reason — not that many people saw Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the first-run syndication, and those who did were sometimes lost or confused by its storytelling style.
Both Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation produced self-contained episodes so that audiences wouldn't have to have much previous knowledge of the series and its plots to drop in and enjoy a random episode. DS9 was not only darker and more morally complicated, but it also leaned heavily into serialization, which simply wasn't done much in non-soap opera American television in that era.
Worse still, there was no easy way to catch up on a show in that era, as streaming and DVD releases were still years away. If a viewer missed an important development in the Dominion War one week, they'd be lost the next week with no real way of getting up to speed beyond the nascent corners of internet message boards. The show's stature — as well as Sisko's in the pantheon of great Star Trek captains — has grown considerably since the show has been available on streaming services in recent years.
Fans were finally able to take the show in at their own pace and appreciate the ongoing storylines and genuine character development that blossomed over the show's seven seasons. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is now rightly considered a crucially important part of the Star Trek mythos, and a huge part of that legacy is down to the rich, complex story of its main character. Dusty Stowe has been writing for Screen Rant since A native of Yorktown, Virginia, he moved to Los Angeles in to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
James Kirk was a prodigy who achieved the rank of Captain quicker than anyone in the history of the Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard came from the supreme stock of Nobel Prize winners and explorers, Katherine Janeway the daughter of a Starfleet Admiral.
In contrast to that, Benjamin Sisko arrived on Deep Space Nine the son of a chef, feeling at odds with Starfleet's objectives, a single father, and a still-grieving widow. Paramount If you've got a spare 15 seconds then I'll leave it at this. Managing Editor. Adam Clery Managing Editor. From Starfleet, Sisko had his old mentor turned young woman Jadzia Dax and the ever-reliable Miles O'Brien, but he was also dealing with the hotshot doctor Bashir and, later, Commander Worf, who was just as grumpy as he was on The Next Generation.
Nothing about Sisko's team was easy to deal with. Star Trek is about exploration. A captain and their crew sail through space, looking for new civilizations. Deep Space Nine was the exact opposite, setting the series on a space station that watches over a stable wormhole.
While the other captains were constantly finding themselves in new weird situations, Sisko's problems were pretty routine. Even during the Dominion War , Sisko's job didn't change much. He would go into battle from time to time, but he mostly hung out in his office and played baseball in the holodeck.
In Star Trek , humanity has basically left religion behind. Other races, like the Klingons, Vulcans, and Bajorans have deep-seated beliefs that they continue to follow.
For Sisko, the Bajoran beliefs were a constant push and pull, due in no small part to his being named the Emissary. The Bajorans saw Sisko as a conduit to the Prophets who live in the wormhole. The designation made Sisko uncomfortable at first, but as time goes on he comes to accept his role in Bajor's belief system and even begins to believe it himself.
Every captain in Star Trek finds a way to do what is right; it's what makes them captains. Sometimes, they'll have to bend the rules a bit to ensure the right thing is done, but they don't go breaking laws, no matter how much they may want to. At least, most of them don't. Sisko, on the other hand, wasn't above committing war crimes.
As the Dominion War waged on, Sisko became convinced that the only way for the Federation to defeat their foe from the other side of the wormhole was to convince the Romulan Empire to join their side. The Federation and the Romulans weren't exactly friends, so it would take a lot to get the cousins of the Vulcans to jump into the fight. To do it, Sisko faked evidence of a coming Dominion attack on the Romulans.
Sisko respects the rules of Starfleet and his fellow members of the space force, but when it comes to Jean-Luc Picard, it's hard for Sisko to not throw down.
It all stems from the Battle of Wolf , when the Borg, using the knowledge they gained from an assimilated Jean-Luc, killed 11, members of Starfleet, including Sisko's wife. While Picard seemed to move past this moment in his past, Sisko could never forget, and he held it against Picard.
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