

The Cardassians managed to take back control of the station during what would become known as the Second Battle for Deep Space 9, though Sisko promised he and the Federation would return. When the Dominion War broke out, Sisko and DS-9 found themselves in the forefront of it, as Dominion forces began coming through the Bajoran wormhole on a regular, weekly basis. They would later marry, and then quickly find out she was pregnant. The one person he found did understand and love baseball as he did was freighter Captain Kasidy Yates, and they struck up a fast friendship.

Other hobbies included building model ships and playing the sport of baseball, which his friends did not fully understand. A proponent of his father’s New Orleans-style cooking, Ben Sisko had often helped out his father in his restaurant “Sisko’s Creole Kitchen,” and did his best to pass on his love of cooking to his son, Jake. While overseeing the operations of DS-9, Benjamin Sisko grew to regard his officers as his friends, and was pleased to see his old friend Curzon Dax in a new Trill symbiont body join the crew. Due to either the mixed crowd, his grieving emotional state, or a combination of both, Sisko’s command style was rather rough: he used blackmail and physical violence to ensure peace on the commerce-heavy star base. Newly minted " Deep Space 9," it was to be Sisko's job to prepare the Bajoran people for admission into the United Federation of Planets. Devastated over the loss of his wife, Sisko came close to resigning from Starfleet.Īfter riding the desk for a while, an old Captain of Sisko’s nominated him for a command position, and he was subsequently put in charge of an old Cardassian mining station, Terok Nor. Receiving a posting as First Officer on the USS Saratoga, the ship was called to assignment in 2367, where Jennifer died at the Battle of Wolf 359. Shortly after graduating, he met his first wife Jennifer, and their son Jake was born soon after they were married. "When did I start thinking of this Cardassian monstrosity as home?" - 2371īen Sisko joined Starfleet Academy in 2350, where he studied to be an Engineer. Notable People Command Crew Commanding Officer (CO) - Captain Benjamin Sisko The discovery of this stable wormhole had a great impact on commerce throughout the region, making the system one of the most important locations in the entire Alpha Quadrant It was determined that it was the only known stable wormhole in the Milky Way Galaxy, which crossed over seventy thousand light years from Bajor in the Alpha Quadrant to a point near the Idran system in the Gamma Quadrant. Shortly after the Federation took control of the station, a wormhole was discovered.

