An elderly Jake Sisko tells a visiting young woman to his home in New Orleans about how he lost his father and why he stopped writing.
Summary[]
Decades in the future, an elderly Jake Sisko uses a hypospray. There is a chime at the door and Jake finds a young woman called Melanie standing there. He invites her in to tend to a scratcH to her face, while she explains why she h as come to see him. Jake is her favourite writer, and wants to both meet and ask him why he wrote so few books. Jake begins to her the story of when his father was lost.
In 2372, Jake is working on a short story and making little headway. His father convinces Jake to accompany him on the Defiant to watch the wormhole undergo a unique event. During the event, the Defiant is damaged and Sisko, followed by Jake, heads to engineering. Sisko is able to stop a warp core breach, but as he is handing Jake an engineering tool, Captain Sisko is hit by an energy discharge and disappears. A memorial service is held on DS9, but Jake feels that he cannot adequately talk about his father and declines to speak at it.
Several months later, Jake sees his father appear in his room, but Captain Sisko soon disappears. Jadzia cannot find any evidence, and advises Jake that he likely had a nightmare. Life moves on. Relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire deteriorate and without Captain Sisko, the Bajorans look elsewhere for protection, forcing them to make a defence pact with the Cardassians.
References[]
Characters[]
- Azeni Korena • Julian Bashir • Broik • Jadzia Dax • Jones • Kira Nerys • Melanie • Morn • Nalan Bal • Nog • Miles O'Brien • Odo • Quark • Benjamin Sisko • Jake Sisko • Rita Tannenbaum • Worf, son of Mogh
- Referenced only
- Rom • Jennifer Sisko • Joseph Sisko
Locations[]
- Bajoran sector • Bajoran wormhole • Deep Space 9 • Earth • Gamma Quadrant • habitat ring • Louisiana • New Orleans • Promenade • Quark's
- Referenced only
- Bajor • French Quarter • Sisko's Creole Kitchen
Starships[]
- Antares-class freighter • Danube-class runabout • USS Defiant (Defiant-class) • Janitza-class starship • USS Leeds (Nebula-class)
Races and cultures[]
- Referenced only
- Cardassian • Prophets
States and Organizations[]
- Referenced only
- Dominion • Klingon Empire • Klingon High Council • Pennington School • Starfleet Academy • Starfleet Command • Starfleet Science
Other references[]
- 2405 • 2408 • 2422 • 2450 • 24th century • 25th century • alternate timeline • Anslem • baseball • baseball • bayou • Betar Prize • book • champagne • coffee • Collected Stories • combadge • deflector array • dermal regenerator • doctor • dom-jot • Emissary of the Prophets • gravimetric field • gravimetic wave • graviton pulse • holoprogram • holosuite • Horatio Hornblower • hypospray • interphasic compensator • ion surfing • latinum • LCARS • light-year • moon • PADD • redfish • replicator • Saltah'na clock • solar sail • subspace • subspace field • subspace field mechanics • subspace flux isolator • subspace inversion • Takarian mead • temporal distortion • temporal signature • transporter • warp coil • warp core • warp core breach • warp core ejection system • Yoruba mask
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Related media[]
- Nog is also depicted as a captain in the alternate future of Millennium, Star Trek Online, and in the season eight storyline in the documentary What We Left BehindMA.
- Korena would later feature prominently in the Worlds of Deep Space Nine novel Bajor: Fragments and Omens where she and Jake meet and marry on Bajor. Sisko recognises her from the alternate timeline.
- The Prophecy and Change framing stories Revisited take place in the "proper" timeline, but reveal a future very similar to the alternate timeline seen in "The Visitor". Melanie visits him in his house in New Orleans and asks him about his work. The 25th century portions of the Star Trek: Enterprise novel The Good That Men Do also takes place in a similar future to the one depicted in the episode.
Cast[]
- Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko
- Nana Visitor as Kira Nerys
- Rene Auberjonois as Odo
- Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir
- Terry Farrell as Jadzia Dax
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Cirroc LoftonMA as Jake Sisko
- Tony Todd as the older Jake
Images[]
Video releases[]
Connections[]
Timeline[]
| published order | ||
|---|---|---|
| Previous episode: The Way of the Warrior |
DS9 episode produced | Next episode: Hippocratic Oath |
| Previous episode: The Way of the Warrior |
DS9 episode aired | Next episode: Hippocratic Oath |
| chronological order | ||
| Previous Adventure: Ghost of a Chance |
Next Adventure: Parturition | |
External links[]
- The Visitor article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- The Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.