Jake Sisko
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| Jake Sisko | |
|---|---|
| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Home planet: | Earth |
| Portrayed by: | Cirroc Lofton Tony Todd |
Jake Sisko, played by Cirroc Lofton, is a fictional Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character. He is the son of Deep Space Nine's commanding officer, Benjamin Sisko.
[edit] Overview
He was born in 2355 to Jennifer Sisko, who was killed in 2367 during the Battle of Wolf 359, when Benjamin Sisko served aboard the USS Saratoga. In 2369, he reluctantly moved with his father to Deep Space Nine. Once there, he became friends with a Ferengi named Nog, son of Rom, despite the disapproval of both youths' fathers. Jake and Nog became the first students enrolled in Keiko O'Brien's school. When Rom pulled Nog out of school, Jake secretly tutored him. The pair also briefly formed the "Noh-Jay Consortium" as a front for their business schemes.
Jake aspired to be a writer, though he declined a scholarship to the Pennington School (New Zealand) in 2371. He briefly dated a Bajoran dabo girl named Mardah, who revealed Jake's penchant for dom-jot hustling and poetry to his father. In 2372, Jake wrote the first draft of his first novel, Anslem under the influence of Onaya, an alien who fed on creative energy ("The Muse").
Feeling the need for independence, Jake moved out of his father's quarters to become roommates with Nog, who had become a Starfleet Academy cadet on DS9 for field study. Jake's slovenliness and Nog's new-found fastidiousness initially strained their friendship, until Benjamin Sisko, as Nog's commander and Jake's father, ordered them to settle their differences.
In an alternate timeline ("The Visitor"), Benjamin Sisko is thrust into a sub-space limbo after being struck by an errant energy bolt in the USS Defiant engine room in 2372. After the accident, Sisko is presumed dead, but later appears to Jake several times. After a short but successful career as a novelist (including the publication of Anslem), Jake spends the rest of his life trying to understand and reverse the accident. Jake learns that since he and his father were in proximity when the accident occurred, he acts as sort of an anchor to his father in sub-space, occasionally pulling the elder Sisko into the real world (similar to a rubber band occasionally going taut). Jake determines that if he were to take his own life, the connection would be severed and Ben would return to the time of the accident. Jake follows through with the plan, and his father is able to return to the past, dodge the energy bolt and change history (Jake is portrayed as an adult in this episode by Tony Todd).
Jake was responsible for introducing his father to Kasidy Yates, a freighter captain. The elder Sisko would become romantically involved with Yates, and would eventually marry in the closing months of the Dominion War.
During the Dominion occupation of Deep Space Nine, Jake remained behind served as a reporter for the Starfleet News Service, though most of his work was suppressed by Weyoun and the Dominion authorities. Nevertheless, he was able to secretly send a message to his father through Morn.
Jake does not have a counterpart in the Mirror Universe; Mirror counterparts of Benjamin and Jennifer exist there, but they separated before ever having a child.
In the series finale, Benjamin Sisko joined the Prophets, and although Jake Sisko is still at DS9 for the final scene of the show, it is not clear if he stayed there.
[edit] External links
- Jake Sisko article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
- StarTrek.com: Jake Sisko
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| The Original Series | Kirk | Spock | McCoy | Scott | Uhura | Sulu | Chekov | Chapel | Rand | ||
| Animated Series | Arex | M'Ress | ||
| The Next Generation | Picard | Riker | Data | La Forge | Worf | B. Crusher | Troi | W. Crusher | Yar | O'Brien | Guinan | Pulaski | ||
| Deep Space Nine | B. Sisko | Kira | J. Dax | Odo | Bashir | O'Brien | Worf | J. Sisko | Quark | Rom | Nog | E. Dax | Garak | Martok | Damar | Dukat | Weyoun | Winn | ||
| Voyager | Janeway | Chakotay | Tuvok | Paris | Torres | Kim | Doctor | Neelix | Seven | Kes | ||
| Enterprise | Archer | T'Pol | Tucker | Reed | Phlox | Sato | Mayweather | ||
