{"id":280013,"date":"2026-02-08T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280013\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:47:08","slug":"why-star-trek-didnt-bring-sisko-back-broke-his-ds9-promise-officially-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280013\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Star Trek Didn’t Bring Sisko Back (& Broke His DS9 Promise) Officially Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a move which was called a \u201clove letter\u201d to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a> by those that brought it to life, but some Star Trek<\/a> fans were left confused by the events, and even a little upset. Others, however, felt that it was the perfect end to an imperfect story\u2014one that didn\u2019t entirely close the chapter on a beloved character while still honoring his story so far and all of the messy implications therein. And to some, it was just Starfleet Academy<\/a>\u2018s Sisko episode. <\/p>\n

The most recent episode of Starfleet Academy, \u201cSeries Acclimation Mil,\u201d which was co-written by Star Trek novelist and producer Kirsten Beyer, along with Tawny Newsome, who voices Beckett Mariner in Star Trek: Lower Decks, and played new teacher Professor Illa Dax, paid homage to a character who made some big promises back in his final appearances\u2014promises that it seems now he wasn\u2019t fully able to keep. Speaking with TrekMovie<\/a>, Newsome revealed why they chose not to bring Sisko back from being Emissary to the Prophets after he left in a concrete sense, despite his promise to his fianc\u00e9e, Kassidy, that he would return:<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we say this man came back, yet nobody\u2019s talked about him, and we haven\u2019t seen hide nor hair of him? So we sort of had to get into the territory of something that maybe science and Starfleet records can\u2019t explain. So that\u2019s why we wanted to put it in Jake\u2019s mouth at the end, where he literally says, \u2018I can\u2019t prove it.\u2019 But all those things you think he missed, he didn\u2019t. He was there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where Exactly is Benjamin Sisko?<\/p>\n

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The question of Sisko\u2019s true fate still is, and likely always will be, unclear. In this most recent Starfleet Academy episode, fans get to see Sisko\u2019s son Jake (who was played by returning DS9 actor Cirroc Lofton) appear in hologram form as an adult, as well as meet a new incarnation of Dax, a Trill lifeform, both of whom reveal new details on life after Deep Space Nine. Each detail shared implies that Sisko never returned from the wormhole, thus breaking his promise. <\/p>\n

Reactions to the episode and its implications are as widely varied as the fan base itself, with some believing that Sisko did return in some sense, but that the moment between himself and his son was kept private. Other fans don\u2019t buy that, claiming that no matter how he was brought back, there was no way to explain away what was, simply put, the abandonment of his family, something that Sisko actor Avery Brooks was adamant would never happen. \u201cSisko\u2019s ending was never defensible, and ultimately amounted to an implicit abandonment of his family, just not an explicit one. Even if he had chosen to return, they\u2019d still have had to explain why he missed whatever period of time he missed and why he\u2019d chosen to abandon them for that time,\u201d said one viewer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Expanding on Avery\u2019s feelings about Sisko never being one to abandon his family, Newsome said, \u201cIt was massively important to all of us in the writers\u2019 room to honor that request. And then we had to square that with the fact that we have seen a lot added to the canon, and there hasn\u2019t been any mention of seeing him. So that puts you in a little bit of a storytelling quandary.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, though, it seems the writers paid tribute to Sisko and the promises he made in the best way that they could without bringing Avery back into the role\u2014something made impossible by the actor\u2019s retirement back in 2013 and the rumored health issues that have kept him from making any kind of return. In the final moments of the episodes, fans were treated to an incredibly special moment: Avery\u2019s voice, one that hasn\u2019t been heard in the Star Trek universe in nearly 25 years, floats through the speakers as he reads a piece from his spoken word album recorded in 2007, saying, \u201cDivine laws are simpler than human ones, which is why it takes a lifetime to be able to understand them. Only love can understand them. Only love can interpret these words as they were meant to be interpreted.\u201d<\/p>\n

How do you feel about the ambiguity of Sisko\u2019s continued absence? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. And don\u2019t forget to check out the ComicBook forums<\/a> to see what other fans are saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a move which was called a \u201clove letter\u201d to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,53913,12119,143539,93185,411],"class_list":["post-280013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-regular-news","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-deep-space-nine","tag-star-trek-starfleet-academy","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}