The Visitor

Stardate: 49037.7 An accident on the U.S.S. Defiant traps Ben Sisko in subspace. Jake spends the rest of his adult life trying to free him, when his father returns to normal space for a few seconds every several years.


Jake figures out that he is the link that his father is tethered to. Ben Sisko only ages a few minutes while Jake becomes an old man. Benjamin is sad that Jake can't let go of him and has spent most of his adult life trying to find a way to bring Ben back permantly.

Jakes finally realizes that the only way to bring his father back is for Jake to die while his father is back in our reality for the minute or so that he is back.

He does so; before he dies, he tells his father to duck, as he will now be brought back to the moment before the accident occurred.

Benjamin goes back to that moment, and ducks, and moves Jake out of the way, as well.He hugs Jake and they both cry - Jake does not know what his father knows - that in a skewed, alternate reality that will now never happen, Jake gave his life to save his father.

I did cry a little at the end of this one. It is a beautiful episode.

"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.