What Happened To Captain Sisko After Deep Space Nine?

While Avery’s Benjamin Sisko has not appeared on-screen in any “Star Trek” movies or TV shows since the “Deep Space Nine” finale, a recent comic book series reveals what happened following those events. The comic is “Star Trek,” the first issue of which was published in October 2022 by IDW, and it picks up where “Deep Space Nine” left off.

The comic begins with a prescript narrated by Benjamin’s son, Jake, who was played by Cirroc Lofton on “Deep Space Nine.” Three years after Benjamin went to the Celestial Temple, in 2378, it confirms that Jake has neither seen nor heard from his father since. As the story begins, Benjamin emerges on the Deep Space Nine outpost, noting that he has spent an “eternity” in the Celestial Realm. Though he considers his return an “exile from paradise,” he has been sent back to warn of an encroaching apocalypse. He maintains his extradimensional connection to the Celestial Temple and the godlike powers that come with it.

Sisko enlists the help of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, noting that Picard’s brief assimilation by the Borg should make him sympathetic. Picard assigns Data to be Sisko’s first officer, and they take the USS Theseus to the Hephaestus nebula. There, an unseen ship kills an entire race of planet-consuming crystalline entities, an act Data refers to as genocide. As Sisko and his crew continue to explore in subsequent issues, they discover a grand conspiracy. As of this writing, nine issues of “Star Trek” have been published, with more on the way to tell the continued story of Benjamin Sisko.

While Avery’s Benjamin Sisko has not appeared on-screen in any “Star Trek” movies or TV shows since the “Deep Space Nine” finale, a recent comic book series reveals what happened following those events. The comic is “Star Trek,” the first issue of which was published in October 2022 by IDW, and it picks up where “Deep Space Nine” left off.

The comic begins with a prescript narrated by Benjamin’s son, Jake, who was played by Cirroc Lofton on “Deep Space Nine.” Three years after Benjamin went to the Celestial Temple, in 2378, it confirms that Jake has neither seen nor heard from his father since. As the story begins, Benjamin emerges on the Deep Space Nine outpost, noting that he has spent an “eternity” in the Celestial Realm. Though he considers his return an “exile from paradise,” he has been sent back to warn of an encroaching apocalypse. He maintains his extradimensional connection to the Celestial Temple and the godlike powers that come with it.

Sisko enlists the help of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, noting that Picard’s brief assimilation by the Borg should make him sympathetic. Picard assigns Data to be Sisko’s first officer, and they take the USS Theseus to the Hephaestus nebula. There, an unseen ship kills an entire race of planet-consuming crystalline entities, an act Data refers to as genocide. As Sisko and his crew continue to explore in subsequent issues, they discover a grand conspiracy. As of this writing, nine issues of “Star Trek” have been published, with more on the way to tell the continued story of Benjamin Sisko.