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Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is a retired American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X.
Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise portrayed by Avery Brooks. He was the main character of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( DS9 ), which was originally broadcast between 1993 and 1999.
The scene with Sisko and Jadzia's coffin was shot on a closed set, with Avery Brooks being the only actor on set in order to give a sense of intimacy to the proceedings. [8] They added the sense of acknowledging Sisko's failure because of the perceived reduction in the impact of the destruction of the prophets after the death of Jadzia.
Penny Johnson Jerald as Kasidy Yates, freighter captain and wife of Benjamin Sisko; Deborah Lacey as Sarah Sisko, mother of Benjamin Sisko; Kenneth Marshall as Michael Eddington, security officer and later Maquis rebel until his death in 2373; Chase Masterson as Leeta, a Dabo girl and Rom's wife; Julianna McCarthy as Mila, housekeeper to ...
Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters) is Benjamin Sisko's father. Joseph runs a restaurant in New Orleans called "Sisko's Creole Kitchen" (" Image in the Sand "). Joseph was first married to a woman named Sarah, but when their son Benjamin was a year and a half old, Sarah left without explanation, eventually dying in a shuttle accident.
Distraught by the death of a friend during the Dominion War, Captain Benjamin Sisko contemplates leaving Starfleet.He begins experiencing hallucinations of 20th-century New York City, and is suddenly taken over by his vision: becoming Benny Russell, an African-American science fiction writer in 1953, who is not conscious of his life in the 24th century.
In this episode, Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) works with former spy Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) to trick the Romulans into joining the war against the Dominion. The episode received Nielsen ratings of 4.8 points corresponding to nearly 4.7 million viewers, [ 1 ] and is widely regarded as one of the series' best episodes.
In this episode, Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the crew aboard the USS Defiant are taken back in time to the events of the Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", and must work to prevent the assassination of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) of the USS Enterprise by a Klingon using a booby-trapped tribble.