Who Is Actually Captain Sisko's Greatest Nemesis?

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• MX

  @mxspokes · 3 years ago (edited)

  Rom's actor played baseball in college and considered a pro career playing that bad takes talent. He had to play with his nondominant hand to suck that bad.

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• KI

  @kingbeauregard · 3 years ago

  SIsko is everything Dukat wanted to be: beloved by the Bajoran people, and proven right in the end. Dukat could never be that because his motives were always wrong: he was interested in the good of Cardassia not Bajor, and he let ego drive his choices (which is a mistake Sisko didn't make). I don't know if Dukat is Sisko's greatest nemesis, but Sisko is definitely Dukat's greatest nemesis.

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• TR

  @TransGwender42069 · 3 years ago

  I always thought it was funny that after Dukat's... episode, where he fully stops pretending he's good and ever was good - he also tries to BE Sisko. He sets up his little cult on Not-DS9 as the Emmisary of the Not-Prophets. He tries to be what Sisko is but it all falls apart because he just can't fathom that Sisko could genuinely love the Bajorans, rather than feel like they owe him something.

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• PO

  @Pope74220 · 3 years ago

  Sisko’s greatest Nemesis is a lack of a HD remaster

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• ST

  @st.anselmsfire3547 · 3 years ago

  &quot;I thought she was a cult leader, but she&apos;s much worse... she&apos;s a self-published author!&quot;<br>As a self-published author myself, that had me rolling. Thank you.

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• JA

  @jamessnedeker4799 · 3 years ago

  Lets not forget Sisko&apos;s battle against his dignity in Move Along Home

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• RE

  @reyperry2605 · 3 years ago

  I don&apos;t know if anyone has pointed this out yet but Eddington used Kassidy Yates as a decoy and that sends her to prison for six months. I think that factors into the deep emnity Ben feels toward him.

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• TA

  @tayzonday · 3 years ago

  Surely Gul DuKat — he was DS9’s equivalent to TNG’s Q . . . a talented guest star who was probably happy to work for union scale, and who the writers found themselves going back to again and again.

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• WE

  @werebison · 3 years ago

  Apparently, in the filming of Take me Out to the Holosuite, Max Grodenchik&apos;s (Rom&apos;s) Nemesis was his intense skill at baseball. Having to play left handed, in order to hide the fact that he knew what he was doing. For some reason, that is my favorite DS9 fun fact. <br><br>Actually.... Rom&apos;s greatest nemesis was often Rom&apos;s secret competence. Huh....

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• AN

  @AndrewD8Red · 3 years ago (edited)

  Sisko is my favourite character in the whole franchise. His arc is one of, if not the absolute, best of anyone on Trek.<br>He becomes less and less Starfleet as time goes by, bending more and more rules, eventually breaking them altogether; condemning Starfleet for allowing the Marquis to happen, then poisoning them. Going against Starfleet for letting the Romulans and Cardassians attack the Founders, then allowing the Founders to die from a disease they have a cure for.<br><br>Father, widower, engineer, husband, friend, son, chef, warrior, philosopher, diplomat and, ultimately, a legitimate god... and none of his qualities or flaws feel like they&apos;re for narrative convenience.<br>Superbly written and wonderfully acted character.

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• CH

  @chrisblake4198 · 3 years ago

  My case for adding The Prophets to this list-<br>To them, he is The SIsko, all he was, is and will be are known to them. To Ben, they represent not just a crisis of faith, but a crisis of the reality he&apos;s lived his entire life in. They will always know more about him in any moment of his dealings with them, than he can possibly know of himself. They are a matter of fact that cannot be fit into any of the categories Sisko used in his encounters with aliens before.<br><br>Your metaphor of Odysseus is particularly apt, because the overarching thread of his story is the same as Sisko&apos;s- a struggle to reconcile the omniscience or omnipotence of gods with his desire to choose his own destiny. Both characters struggle against the path prophecy has laid out for them. The Founders aren&apos;t petty like Poseidon, but they definitely see Sisko as their tool for shaping the galaxy beyond their wormhole. There&apos;s no animosity, but their love for him exacts a steep price. Both characters have to come to terms with the struggle, while their life and the lives of those they love are at risk.

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• AK

  @akaArria · 3 years ago

  The reason Eddington hit harder, was because he thought he had learned to see the signs from Cal, but missed it *yet again*. Plus, he projected the hurt and betrayal from Cal onto Eddington, which is why Ben went over the line in trying to stop him. Sisko didn&apos;t have the brotherly feelings for Eddington, as he did for Cal to hold him back.

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