Paramount is about to destroy the best Star Trek show
By Chris Snellgrove | Published: 2025-10-26 19:41:00 | Source: GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
Written by Chris Snellgrove | Published
As a lifelong Star Trek fan, this is my highlight Deep Space Nine It is the best presentation in the entire legendary sci-fi series. Part of what makes this show so resounding is that its finale left the ultimate fate of Captain Benjamin Sisko (last seen with the aliens who saved him from certain death) deliciously ambiguous.
Now, anyway, coming Starfleet Academy The show is about to reveal his fate. I have a sneaking suspicion that these revelations will retroactively ruin Trek’s greatest show.
Teasing is a disaster
Concerns about Starfleet Academy It started about two months ago when the first trailer was released. Look closely, and you can see a figure staring at the screen with a man in silhouette. Above it is a text that says, “The fate of Benjamin Sisko, emissary of the prophets.”
Recently, Starfleet Academy Co-showrunner Noga Landau discussed the upcoming show with the trades, saying, “There are also mysteries.” Watch out Benjamin Sisko! We got to do some really cool things that haven’t been done in a long time which I think really honors the fans who have been waiting to see what’s going to happen.
Beaming down some disappointment
When that first teaser came out, I tried to tell myself that Sisko’s screen was just an Easter egg. Maybe just a little confirmation that Starfleet still cares about Sisko eight centuries after he joined the Prophets.
However, the showrunner’s comments about “mysteries” and placating fans who were “waiting to see what would happen” make me think the show will answer the big question of when or if Cisco will return to reality after time with immaterial profits. The honest truth is that it doesn’t matter how They write this Deep Space Nine The character in the show, will irritate old school fans like me.
in Deep Space Nine In the series finale, Sisko prevents Gul Dukat from unleashing the pah ghosts by confronting him over a cliff in the fire caves of Bajor. Dukat dies, but Sisko is saved by the Prophets, and he spends an indefinite time with them living in a dimension that exists outside of space and time.
Later, he appeared via a kind of vision to his wife Cassidy Yates, who asked her when her husband would return. “It’s hard to say,” Cisco said. “Maybe a year, maybe…yesterday.” But I will come back
Paramount is about to destroy the best Star Trek show
Personally, I’ve come to love the mystery surrounding Cisco’s fate. Once it became clear that Sisko actor Avery Brooks would never return to Star Trek, I made peace with the fact that fans would simply never know what happened to the famous (and sometimes infamous) Starfleet captain. Now, though, it looks like the series will determine the character’s ultimate fate without Brooks’ involvement, and it’s sure to be a major disaster for multiple reasons.
First of all, even if Starfleet Academy The writers come up with a great idea for Sisko (which is unlikely; more on that soon), nothing they come up with would be more amazing than Deep Space Nine Fans have come up with. We’ve all spent decades coming up with our canon for the character’s eventual return, and any official explanation is bound to be disappointing. I’ve always found it appropriate for a Star Trek series to be very unconventional Deep Space Nine He ended a show about the character’s religious journey by asking fans to take a leap of faith into the unknown rather than explaining what happened to Sisko with the tech franchise’s usual precision.
There are always (terrible) possibilities.
Consider the extent of neglect discovery It could be with Star Trek canon, I’m really nervous about how the writers of the spin-off will be shown Starfleet Academy He will deal with Sisko’s return. Will we find out that he returned and ended the temporary Cold War, or perhaps he appeared in the distant past to join Section 31? Both ideas are as terrible as a Season 1 TNG episode, but I wouldn’t put it past contemporary Trek writers to do at least something this stupid with the franchise’s coolest character, retroactively ruining it for fans of the golden age of Star Trek.
I hope I’m wrong here: maybe Starfleet Academy Really will tease Sisko’s fate through a weird pop-up screen and go no further. Unfortunately, modern Trek writers aren’t known for their restraint, so it’s possible that Sisko’s fate is somehow tied to one of NuTrek’s notorious mystery season-long arcs. If that happens, older fans may have to answer a mystery of their own… why they continue to watch a franchise slowly collapse into a black hole of lackluster creativity and empty corporate pandering.
(tags for translation) Avery Brooks
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