Benjamin Sisko

• Full Name: Benjamin Lafayette Sisko
• Born: 2332, New Orleans, United States of America, Earth (DS9 Novel: Avatar, Book One)
• Species: Human
• Gender: Male
• Father: Joseph Sisko
• Mother: Sarah Sisko
• Sister: Judith Sisko
• Brother: Aaron Sisko
• Brother: Samuel Sisko
• Wife: Jennifer Sisko (2354 - 2367)
  • Married late 2354
  • Died Jaunary 1, 2367 (DS9: "The Emissary")
• Son: Jacob Sisko
• Wife: Kasidy Yates (2375 - Present)
  • Married August 4, 2375 (DS9: "'Til Death Do Us Part")
• Daughter: Rebecca Sisko
• November 2350: Cadet, Starfleet Academy (DS9: "Image in the Sand", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")
  • Engineering program
  • Captain of the Academy wrestling team 2351 (DS9: "Q-Less", "Apocalypse Rising", "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")
• 2351: Field study, Starbase 137 (DS9: "The Ascent")
• 2353: Field study, adjunct to Ambassador Curzon Dax; Pelios Station (DS9: "Invasive Procedures"; DS9 Short Story: "The Music Between the Notes")
• September 2354: Ensign, engineer, Starfleet; USS Livingston (DS9: "The Emissary", "Invasive Procedures"; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
• After 2355: Ensign, Starfleet Intelligence, Starfleet; Federation Embassy, Romulus (TLE Novel: Rough Beasts of Empire; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
• By 2360: Lieutenant, engineer, Starfleet; USS Okinawa (TLE Novel: Catalyst of Sorrow; DS9: "The Adversary"; DS9 Novel: Gamma: Original Sin)
• 2360: Lieutenant commander, executive officer, Starfleet; USS Okinawa (TLE Novel: Catalyst of Sorrow; DS9: "Homefront")
• By 2367: Lieutenant commander, executive officer, Starfleet; USS Saratoga (DS9: "Emissary")
• January 2367: Lieutenant commander, Defiant-class development, Starfleet; Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards (DS9: "Emissary")
• 2369: Commander, commanding officer, Starfleet; Deep Space 9 (DS9: "Emissary", "Paradise Lost")
  • Discovery of the Bajoran Wormhole leads to his position as Emissary of the Bajoran religion (DS9: "Emissary")
• 2371: USS Defiant (NX-74205) assigned to Deep Space 9 (DS9: "The Search, Part I")
  • Assigned as commanding officer in addition to position as station commander
• 2371: Captain, commanding officer, Starfleet; Deep Space 9 (DS9: "The Adversary")
• December 26, 2374: Awarded the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
• 2375: USS Sao Paulo (later renamed USS Defiant (NCC-74205-A)) assigned to Deep Space 9 following the destruction of the first USS Defiant
  • Assigned as commanding officer in addition to position as station commander (DS9: "The Dogs of War")
• 2375: Disappearance (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
  • Ascension to a nonlinear, noncorporeal existence alongside the Prophets
• 2377: Reappearance (DS9 Novel: Unity)
  • Chooses not to reactivate his commission upon his reappearance
• February 2381: Captain, commanding officer, Starfleet; USS New York (Novel: Rough Beasts of Empire)
• 2381: Captain, commanding officer, Starfleet; USS Robinson (Novel: Rough Beasts of Empire, Plagues of Night, Raise the Dawn, Revelation and Dust, Sacraments of Fire, Peaceable Kingdoms; DS9 Novel: Ascendance, The Long Mirage, Gamma: Original Sin)
• Served aboard half a dozen starships by Gamma: Original Sin; Livingston, Okinawa, Saratoga, Defiant, New York, and Robinson meet the count (exceed counting both Defiants separately)