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- The Ace: Sisko is an Action Hero, Guile Hero, and Science Hero of the highest caliber rolled into a single Starfleet uniform. He can beat Klingon in a fist fight, navigate through high-stakes interplanetary crises, and build starships designed to take on the Combine. If you want to tangle with him, you'd best bring a couple of armadas.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: At the end of the series Sisko is ascended into the celestial templefor an unspecified amount of time. Emphasis on "unspecified": the Prophets are non-linear beings outside time. He eventually returns and resume his life among his family and continue serving Starfleet and the Alliance.
Kasidy: When will you be back? Sisko: It's hard to say - maybe a year, maybe... yesterday. But I will be back.
- Almighty Janitor: Ends up supervising and occasionally even participating in grand strategy meetings among the heads of state of great powers, despite himself never being promoted higher than Captain. On paper he is a captain. In practice, he is a full admiral.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the highest ranked officer on Deep Space Nine and kicks more ass than most known captains in Starfleet. Takes on several Jem'Hadar on the ground, challenges the Galactic Empire's officers and also leads several of the fleet battles. He was a star wrestler at the Academy and, in a pinch, knows his way around the bat'leth (presumably he trained with Curzon); imagine the look of surprise on that Klingon boarding party when he swipes a bat'leth from their fallen comrade and goes to town on them. Oh, and he's also the only person in the history of the UFP to punch Q to the floor.
- Bald of Authority: Sisko looks far more badass once he goes bald. And for good reason too. Sisko was one of the major leaders of the entire Federation and Alliance fleets in open war against the Dominion and the Axis during the war in his universe.
- Chef of Iron: Had he not joined Starfleet, Ben would probably still be tending the kitchen at Sisko's. His father Joseph ran his restaurant in a way similar to Picard's vineyard: He eschews replicated food, believing it lacks the flavor of a quality meal.
- Child by Rape: He's the child of a relationship that was non-consensual, but the Prophets are to blame, not his parents. His mother was possessed by the Prophets and forced into a relationship with the unknowing Joseph. After Benjamin was born, the Prophets released her and she, understandably, left Joseph and Ben. No one was particularly broken up when they learned this.
- The Chosen One: Being the Emissary. So much so that the Prophets arranged for his birth! As the Emissary to the Prophets, "The Sisko" has a destiny to fulfill, many trials to face, and an important role in Bajoran theology and prophecy. He was anointed as such due to a prophecy that the Emissary of The Prophets would return from the Celestial Temple healed by the Prophets. Sisko qualifies by getting over his emotional trauma over being violently widowed with pressing by the Prophets trying to understand why he "exists here" (in their nonlinear perspective) in the moment of his wife's death, and emerging from the Bajoran Wormhole.