

( DS9: " The Search, Part I", " The Adversary") ( DS9: " The Maquis, Part II") Sisko did not, in fact, attain rank of captain until he was thirty-nine, the same year he also became a starship commander. On their graduation day from the Academy – the first day they donned their officers' uniforms – Sisko and Hudson both swore that they would be starship captains by the time they were thirty, and admirals by forty. Already impaired with alcohol against an opponent three times stronger than himself, he lost, was humiliated, and resented Solok for decades. ( DS9: " Q-Less", " Apocalypse Rising") He once challenged a Vulcan, Solok, to a match after a few drinks at an off-campus bar called The Launching Pad. Sisko also became the captain of his Academy wrestling team in 2351. ( DS9: " The Maquis, Part I", " The Maquis, Part II", " Apocalypse Rising") ( DS9: " The Ascent")ĭuring his years at the Academy, Ben became friends with Calvin Hudson and Laporin. He later considered it to be one of the best experiences of his life. "ĭuring his sophomore year, he performed his field study at Starbase 137.

" Then, two years later, in " For the Uniform", after he had been taken off the task of tracking down and capturing Michael Eddington, Sisko stated to Dax that "in twenty-five years of duty, I have never been taken off an assignment until now. The first, in " Defiant", he spoke of, in his Commander's log, going "against twenty years of Starfleet training help an enemy hunt down one of our own ships. ( DS9: " Explorers", " Homefront", " Paradise Lost")Īt least two further references dating Sisko's overall time in Starfleet were mentioned.

During his first week there, he became homesick to where he would beam back home to New Orleans every night for dinner with his family, but he eventually got over his homesickness. Sisko joined Starfleet Academy in 2350, where he studied to be an engineer. ( DS9: " Paradise")Īs a teenager, Sisko had a crush on Neffie Beumont and later dated Zoey Phillips for three years. ( DS9: " A Man Alone") He also grew his own vegetables and would send his sons out to the garden to pick them. ( DS9: " Homefront") Joseph called his children his " taste testers" and insisted that they all eat dinner together. Joseph owned his own restaurant, Sisko's Creole Kitchen, where his children worked in the summers. ( DS9: " Past Tense, Part I", " Homefront", " Paradise")ĭuring his childhood, Sisko and his siblings were taught to cook by their father, who believed that replicated food was lacking. ( DS9: " Image in the Sand") She later gave birth to his younger half-sister Judith and two half-brothers. Joseph soon remarried, and his new wife raised Benjamin as her own. Sarah, however, had been possessed by a Prophet – a non-linear alien species which lived in the then-undiscovered Bajoran wormhole – in order to ensure the birth of Benjamin, who would later become the Emissary of the Prophets.Ī year later, the Prophet returned control of Sarah's body, and she soon left her son and husband. Sisko was born in 2332 in New Orleans, North America, Earth, to Joseph and Sarah Sisko. 7.4.6 The crew and residents of Deep Space 9.
