Fictional Characters That Deserve Your Love: #1 Benjamin Lafayette Sisko
Oh, Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, how much do we love thee? For one thing, you are Teh Hawtness with your Beard Of Evil. Like so:
Less Shallow Reasons Why The Sisko Deserves Your Love:
1. Ben Sisko has PAIN and fandom loves PAIN. He has two dead mommies, one non-corporeal one, a dead wife, one abandoned wife-who-is-with-child and also he HATES Picard for killing said wife even though it wasn't really Picard's fault.
2. One time his son Jake sacrificed everyone in the entire universe to save him. Ben Sisko is just THAT GOOD.
3. Also, the Sisko is the Messiah. Or something. He is the prophet of the prophets. Like Prophet2.
4. One time, Ben Sisko forced his entire senior staff to play a game of baseball to satisfy a personal grudge with some guy that made fun of him at school. This resulted in a number of injuries, and Ben himself was ejected from the game for attacking the referee. Or umpire. Whatever it is they have in baseball.
5. Ben Sisko broke the rules of time-travel just to get Kirk's autograph.
6. Ben Sisko is an excellent cook.
7. Ben Sisko is probably Trek's best ever parent, and totally has the healthiest single-parent family in that entire 'verse.
8. Ben Sisko sometimes has visions where people he knows talk cryptically about things that haven't happened yet. And he can bless people.
9. You should love Ben Sisko if only because Kai Winn hates him.
10. Ben Sisko punched Q in his stupid smug face. This is extra-good because Q is pretty much the reason his wife died that time.
11. Ben Sisko repeatedly returning to the moment of his wife's death is like the only time Star Trek has made me cry.
12. One time Ben Sisko was a racially-persecuted science-fiction writer in the 1950s.
13. Ben Sisko was once a really convincing Klingon.
14. Ben Sisko planned to retire and live humbly on a planet where everyone believed him to be the Messiah.
15. "You want to know? You really want to know what my problem is? I'll tell you: Las Vegas, 1962. That's my problem. In 1962, black people weren't very welcome there. Oh, sure, they could be performers or janitors but customers, never."
16. Ben Sisko lied to bring the Romulans into the war.
17. And you know what? Ben Sisko can live with it.
18. Ben Sisko is not Picard.
19. Ben Sisko is a firm believer in human rights, equality, and social justice.
20. Despite this, Ben Sisko is not above blackmailing a Ferengi to get what he wants.
21. Ben Sisko was once a cigar-smoking supervillain who wanted to kill everyone with lasers and the sea.
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23. Benjamin Sisko remembers the debt of honour to General Lafayette.
24. Ben Sisko could totally take you in a fight.
25. "I finally realized that it wasn't Starfleet that I was trying to get away from. I was trying to escape the pain I felt, after my wife's death. I thought I could take the uniform, wrap it around the pain and toss them both away. But it doesn't work like that. Running may help for a little while, but sooner or later the pain catches up with you, and the only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground." See? PAIN.
26. Ben Sisko can be wicked hubristic.
27. Ben Sisko is full of righteous anger that you don't love him as much as you should.
28. Ben Sisko once led a rebellion in a ghetto of the sick and unemployed.
29. Ben Sisko knows that beets are a very misunderstood vegetable.
30. Ben Sisko is so cool that aliens went back in time to make him.