Star Trek: The Heartbreaking Story Of Jake Sisko
Within the many additions to the Star Trek universe, there are pockets of truly heartbreaking moments that are impossible to think about without welling up. The Next Generation had Picard live an entire life inside a long destroyed civilizations' simulation, and the Original Series cast had the fabled goodbye to Spock inThe Wrath of Khan film. It seems however, that there is one series that is far more prone to turning on the water works, containing not only the truly tragic death of Jadzia Dax, but also the sad tale of Jake Sisko: none other than Deep Space 9.
Jake Sisko is one of those characters that might be easy to forget. The son of the sometimes overly dramatic, and often morally ambiguous space station commander Benjamin Sisko, he pops in and out during the series, but is often overlooked when focusing on the whole dominion war and political quagmire that is Deep Space 9. This said, there are plenty of episodes and storylines that revolve around him, and none so pivotal and heart-wrenching than “The Visitor.” This episode not only shows the deep and profound love between father and son, but also how the ghosts of the past can make it impossible to properly grieve and move on.
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The episode begins with an old man, who is later relieved to be an elderly Jake. It starts fairly mysteriously: He injects himself with a strange liquid, after which he receives a knock at his door and finds a young aspiring writer, who is a big fan of the books Jake has written over the years. He shows her in, and they begin to talk. She asks him why he stopped writing, to which Jake replies that it all started the day his father died. This is as dramatic as it sounds, and theatrics aside, is one of the
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