Benjamin Sisko
“It’s a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!”
“I have had it with these motherfucking Cardassians on this motherfucking station!”
Captain Benjamin Sisko, also known as Benny and Hawk, was (will be?) a high school principal and commander of a space station built by aliens with spoons on their foreheads. He also played a character by the same name in Deep Space Nine, a show in some hippie series called Star Trek. Its pretty shitty, so you shouldn't watch it. This article is about the guy in the TV show rather than the actor who actually changed his name to Avery Brooks to avoid confusion with the fictional character he played. This is different from the case of William Shatner who changed his name to "Captain" Kirk.
Early years[edit | edit source]
Benjamin Sisko was born on Earth ... somewhere. Let's just say he's American or from what would have been called America in our time. His dad was a cook and his mother was dead. Sisko, while a good cook, decided he was gonna go fly around space sometime between the age of zero and the age of, oh let's say, twenty. If I actually bothered to do some research I could probably add a bit to this but no, just no, that's not for me. I didn't do research for that grade 12 history essay I'm not going to do it for this.
Early career[edit | edit source]
Sisko had a pretty hot wife, and a baby child named Jake (probably short for Jacob but I can't recall him being called Jacob by anyone at any point in the show). Sisko was aboard the USS Redshirt, one of the many ships of that name who took part in the battle of Wolf 359. I think Sisko was a lieutenant or a lieutenant commander, because he's a commander at the actual beginning of the show and something like ten years without a promotion would suck.
Sisko and his family were living in New Orleans when Hurricane Borg struck the city. Unfortunately his wife Jennifer was trapped in debris caused by the disaster. Fortunately, since Benjamin was a military officer Starfleet FEMA cared enough to rescue him along with his son. The tragic death of his wife from governmental incompetence after Hurricane Borg made the Sisko very angry and filled with depression and angst.
Deep Space Nine[edit | edit source]
After ten years of fishing on a holodeck with his son, Sisko gets stationed at Terrok Nor, a crappy space station pretty much the equivalent of a concentration camp during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. For some reason the Bajorans thought it would be good to replace one alien overlord with another.
Sisko and his son move to the newly named Deep Space Nine and meet Kira Nerris, a kinda good looking Bajoran chick who wears all red but survives the whole series; Odo; a weird fucking morphamajig; Doctor Bashir, a British white guy who's apparently Arab; Quark (big ears); Chief O'Brien, an enlisted Irish guy who got kicked off the Enterprise but is apparently the best Star Fleet could spare to head engineering on the station; Jadzia Dax, a hot girl with spots who has a thing in her that used to be Sisko's friend or something like that and the ever-sinister Run On Sentence. This is the main cast. There were also other big-eared guys named Nog (like the egg) and Rom (like the CD); Garak, a spoon head who likes clothing; and Morn. Morn was the most useful character on the show and never shut up.
Season one[edit | edit source]
Sucked. Sisko finds out he's the Emissary of the Prophets, deities worshiped by the Bajorans. Turns out they really do exist, living in a wormhole that goes to the Gamma Quadrant. There's like two quadrants between them if I have my Greek alphabet right ... I probably don't. That's pretty much the only important thing to happen in season 1. It was too much like TNG so it sucked.
Season two[edit | edit source]
Sucked but a little less. In this season Sisko fights the Maquis, a band of rebels who thought it was ballz that the Federation was giving their homes back to the Cardassians. Quite frankly it was, I think they had every right to stick it to 'em. However the Federation didn't agree so shit went down. The season finale the crew met the Jem' Hadar, bad ass dino-men and the Vorta – aliens that are ... not human. This was actually a good thing because this introduced the Dominion, a sort of anti-Federation without whom the show would have sucked.
Season three[edit | edit source]
I don't have this season on DVD. Some stuff went down with the Dominion I'm sure, probably something about a treaty between the Cardassians and the Dominon. It's probably safe to say nothing happened.
Season four[edit | edit source]
If it wasn't in the previous season this one probably had the defense treaty with the Dominion and the Spoon Heads. Then I guess in the season finale the Klingons declared war with the Cardassians and for some stupid reason the Federation's peace treaty with the Cardassians was more important than the peace treaty with the Klingons. I didn't see this season either, but this is kinda where the show got really good I think. Also I believe that Commander Worf (a.k.a. "Awesome") came into the show in this season.
Season five[edit | edit source]
This is yet another season I don't have on DVD but sometime in this season the war against the Klingons ends and they become allies again and then they go to war against the Cardassians and the Dominion. Good choice. Well, not good cause it's war, but if you have to go to war it's a better enemy to choose to go to war against. Something about the general of the Klingons being a changeling. I dunno. So ya. Next.
Season six[edit | edit source]
This is a season I actually have on DVD. Things that Sisko did in this season. The Cardassians had control of station at the beginning of this season somehow and then the Federation takes it back. Oh Sisko now has a ship called the Defiant and is a Captain. Awesome right? Right. So Sisko becomes an accomplice to political assassination which brings the Romulans into the war on the side of good (Federation and Klingons). Blah blah blah, season finale Dax gets killed it's all very sad. Next.
Season seven[edit | edit source]
Yet another season I had on DVD. Pretty good. Dax comes back but hotter, or cuter at least, and Sisko has a bad trip where he's a writer in the 1950s and everyone hates black people (completely unlike today ... I'M LOOKING AT YOU NEO-NAZIS ... jackasses). That might have been season six. Actually I don't know. Quite frankly, writing this at 2:30 in the morning with a very unspecific memory concerning these shows, means that probably 75% of this is wrong. Back to the story. Hotter Dax and then the war ends when they concur Cardassia (also known as spoon head land) and then Sisko convinces the Prophets to not let the oncoming Dominion fleet get through the wormhole (but once again that might have been in an earlier season). The Prophets make Sisko one of them, shit goes down. Fin.
Star Trek novels[edit | edit source]
NOT CONSIDERED CANNON AND I HAVEN'T BEEN READING THEM – MOVING ON!
Incidents[edit | edit source]
Writer drug trip[edit | edit source]
Benjamin Sisko collapsed one day randomly in the station. This was fairly far along in the show, something like the sixth season so this story seemed kinda useless. However, it was a really good episode so I'm not complaining. Anyways Sisko suddenly became Benny, a Negro writer. At the time Negro was considered polite but now it's a racist thing to say. So he was black writer and everyone called him a Negro but none of the readers of the magazine knew he was black. He writes a story about a space station called Deep Space Nine (O_o). He gets beaten up by some white cops played by Dukat and Wayune and then every one says they like his story but they can't print it because people don't like black people. Sucks. He wakes up and is Sisko again. WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT!
Sisko versus Kirk[edit | edit source]
Sisko is better.
- Sisko had a crappy old space station made by the Cardassians, but it's still more advanced than Kirk's ship.
- Kirk's engineer was Scottish, Sisko's was Irish (okay we will call this a draw at least they both had eyes)!
- Sisko actually fought in wars, Kirk's just vaguely spoke to his captain's log.
- Sisko's head of security had a flat face, Kirk's security officers died every episode.
- If Kirk had been in command of Deep Space Nine then he wouldn't have ended the war against the Klingons and the Dominion would have won. Fucking racist.
Sisko would never have sucked his cock ... not that there's anything wrong with that.
- Sisko had a Klingon on his crew, Kirk was a racist fuck.
- Sisko's space station and ship didn't run on technology that was obsolete two centuries before it was built.
- Sisko had a kid. Kirk had a kid too but Kirk didn't meet him till his son was something like 25.
- ... and Kirk's kid was a bastard.
- ... and Sisko's kid didn't have a faggy-ass name like David.
- Although Sisko is better, at least he respects Kirk, he even traveled back in time to get his autograph.
Sisko versus Picard[edit | edit source]
Sisko is Better.
- Picard may have had Worf first but he was a pussy under Picard and didn't become awesome until DS9.
- Picard never realized what O'Brien could do, under Sisko O'Brien put LaForge to shame.
- Sisko may have had Rom in his engineering staff but at least Rom wasn't blind.
- Picard tries to negotiate with Q, Sisko punched him.
- Picard had male pattern hair loss. Sisko shaved his hair by choice and looked more awesome. Also, that sweet beard.
- Archer started off too much like Picard so they changed him halfway through the series and made him more like Sisko.
- Picard talks to Cardassians, Sisko kicks their asses.
- In fact, Picard ended up being tortured by them and nearly broke. Sisko had a Cardassian torturer on retainer, and if he stepped out of line, Sisko would punch him across the room.
- If Picard had met the Dominion first he would have negotiated the surrender of the Federation to them. He's just that French.
- Picard does not even try to be French; he drinks Earl Grey, reads and plays Shakespeare, speaks in an English accent and shamefully let others pronounce that "d" at the end of his name. Sisko is a genuine Creole, cooking Creole food and destroying racial discrimination as a hobby.
- Sisko might have had Nog and Rom but he never had Wesley Crusher.
- Picard fought Ferengi as if they were serious enemies, with Sisko they were comic relief.
- Picard always has Tea Earl Grey Hot from the replicator, Sisko cooks his own food.
- Picard had ten forward, Sisko had Quark's bar.
- Picard's bartender wasn't Quark.
- Sisko's bartender wasn't Whoopi Goldberg.
- Sisko had kids.
- Members of Picard's crew may have been brought onto DS9 but that's when they became awesome anyways.
- Kira Nerys.
- Cassidy Yates.
- Jadzia Dax.
- Ezri Dax.
- Sisko's doctor was genetically enhanced and had to make an effort not to be too much more awesome than everybody else.
- Picard negotiates, Sisko wins wars.
- Sisko could get laid when ever he wants.
- Sisko had a Goatee.
- Sisko's hung like a black dude.
- Sisko never had an android on his crew but if he did it'd have lasers in his eyes and swords for arms.
- Sisko's chief of security can morph to look like anything he wants to, and I guarantee you it wouldn't be Picard.
- Sisko doesn't sing about French monks who can't wake up.
- Picard makes wine, Sisko makes foodgasms.
- Sisko drinks Ractagino, not wimpy Earl Grey tea.
- Sisko likes baseball (although this one might not be so much on the good side).
- Picard negotiates with Romulans, Sisko fucking blows one up and accomplishes more in that one episode than Picard did in his entire series.
- Picard tells Worf to target the weapons or engines of enemy ships, Sisko tells Worf to write "Don't fuck with the Sisko" on torpedoes and fire them at enemy ships.
- Picard is good at swearing in Klingon. Sisko eats Klingon hearts for breakfast, cooked in Creole style.
Sisko versus Janeway[edit | edit source]
Sisko is better.
- Sisko would have found a way to blow up the caretaker array and get back to the Alpha Quadrant at the same time.
- Both Sisko and Janeway traveled to distant parts of the galaxy, the only difference is that Sisko makes it home by the end of the episode.
- Q extorted Janeway for help. He got punched in the face by Sisko. He's not Picard.
- It took a whole fleet of Cardassian and Dominion ships to take over DS9. It took only one Cardassian to take over Voyager.
- Both had self-aware holographic programs but Sisko's wasn't a douche face.
- Neelix.
- Kes.
- Ensign Kim would never have stayed an ensign.
- Sisko would skull-fuck Tom Paris for his attitude. After tearing his head out and shitting down his neck.
- Neelix.
- Threshold.
- Sisko has a proper son. Janeway's offspring are fucking reptiles. Which are promptly abandoned.
- Sisko never needed a reset button to babysit the grand scheme of things.
- The Maquis is specifically created to be used as a plot device in Voyager. Guess who cleans up all the mess?
- Neelix.
Sisko versus Archer[edit | edit source]
Sisko is better.
- Sisko's doctor wasn't related to a blowfish.
- Archer had to fight Augments and it was a great deal of trouble to him. Sisko has an Augment under his command.
- Archer started too much like Picard and to they had to change him to be more like Sisko.
- Sisko would never let his dog to get out of hand and cause major diplomatic headaches. If he had one.
- Two words: AVERY BROOKS!
- Bashir/Garak fics.
- Jadzia/Kira fics.
- Ezri/Kira fics.
- Ezri/Jadzia fics.
- Kira/Ro ... wait, no scratch that. And besides that's expanded universe, and we all know the expanded universe doesn't exist.
- Sisko had time for two wars in his show, and he finished both of them, Archer was canceled before he got to his first.
- Archer's chief of security was British, Sisko's chief of security could turn into a British person but never chose to.
- Archer had only one British officer, Sisko had two. One of them was the very first non-Caucasian British character in television history. Yes, he is the Augment. Surprise?
- Sisko never had to rely on bullshit episodes where Archer's crew meets an alien race (the Borg) that won't be met again until Sisko's time and then forget to report it to Starfleet.
- Archer never met Q, Sisko punched him in the face.
- If the Dominion ever met the Suliban then the Suliban would have been insta-pwnd, and Sisko took on the Dominion.
- Archer is the ass kickee, Sisko is the ass kicker.
- Sisko's ship is a pair of motherfuck'n pimped big guns strapped to a motherfuck'n pimped warp drive. With a cloaking device.
