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
- 2350: Cadet, Starfleet Academy, Starfleet; Earth (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, Pelios Station (DS9: "Invasive Procedures"; DS9 Short Story: "The Music Between the Notes")
- 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")
- 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)