 Quick Facts:
- Occupation:
Writer, Reporter
- Full Name: Jake Sisko
- Year of birth: 2355
- Parents: Capt.
Benjamin Sisko (MIA 2375) and Jennifer
Sisko (d. 2367); no siblings
- Education: On-post schooling
- Marital status: Single
- Residence: Section M, Habitat Ring; shared for 2373-74
with Cadet Nog
- First Seen: "Emissary" (DS9)
Complete Bios:
FROM
STARTREK.COM
Jake Sisko has a surprisingly
healthy mental outlook considering the traumatic childhood of
losing his mother at age 11 during the infamous Borg massacre at
the Battle of Wolf 359; he was unconscious when his father
barely saved him from their wrecked cabin on the U.S.S. Saratoga
and fled to escape pods. The memory is ever-present but only
occasionally haunts him, as on the fourth anniversary of her
death, whenever the Captain leaves for a risky mission that
might leave him orphaned again, and when the chance to meet the
mirror-universe Jennifer Sisko lured him into a trap in that
dimension in 2372.
Jake shares a deep love and familial friendship with his father
that has greatly buttressed the normal strains of his teenage
years; the love is echoed with the bond he has with his
grandfather Joseph, although visits spent helping out in the
kitchen and garden are not seen as fun. At times the young man
has shown more openness and concern for his dad's romantic life
than his own, having been uncomfortable initially discussing
dating and his career goals but able to introduce his father to
freighter captain Kasidy Yates in late 2371. He knew Captain
Sisko had finally accepted DS9 as "home" when he took his
ancient African art collection out of storage on Earth earlier
that year and brought it to the station.
As a young boy Jake loved his nursery's ceiling starfield as a
child and wondered why it couldn't go along when the Siskos
moved - a tale his father loves to tell. Before Wolf 359, the
family had enjoyed their most memorable vacation ever on a
camping trip to Itamish III, where his mom had taught Jake to
water-ski.
Having settled into life after his mother's death at the Utopia
Planetia yards on Mars, just next door to Earth, Jake was not
happy with the move to the dilapidated DS9 in 2369. Out of
mutual loneliness there he soon met and befriended Nog, a
Ferengi boy often in trouble; the two were among only 14
children aged 8 to 16 on the station at the time, mostly Bajoran.
Among their interests the two boys enjoyed girl-watching, but
the elder Sisko had worried about Nog's too-great influence in
everything from staying up too late to girls to a lack of
ethics. He need not: Jake had already learned his dad's values
of tolerance, kindness and honesty and is responsible with his
own priorities between work and play. Jake was bothered when Nog
once wanted him to lie for him about stolen homework and then
pulled out of school on Rom's order, but the boys decided to
ignore their fathers' demands and Jake tutored him to read. If
not for Jake's patience, Nog would never have made their Noh-Jay
Consortium pay off or perhaps have the confidence, maturity and
broader outlook to apply for Starfleet Academy years later. He
and Nog were Keiko's last two pupils when she closed the school
in 2371, and she tutored them privately after that until she
left. They were on the verge of splitting forever, but when
Sisko admitted he had been wrong about their friendship the two
made amends as Nog left for the Academy - even though he too had
thought Nog was joking about his academy application.
 Jake recalls his first date was to be in early 2370 with a
Bajoran girl, Laira, but it was called off when her father
forbid it amid the growing xenophobia fanned by The Circle
faction at the time. His next known "date" a few months later
was with Mardah, a Dabo girl, then 19; supposedly just tutoring
her in entomology, he soon decided she was the love of his life
and wanted his dad to have her for dinner. A year later it
finally happened; Captain Sisko shocked him by inviting her, but
though nervous they hit it off. Mardah's sudden departure weeks
later for schooling on Regulus III left him glum, but he was
soon caught up by Lwaxana Troi's Zanthi fever - which only acts
in case of latent pre-existing emotions - and fell hard for Kira
during the Gratitude Festival. A relationship with the human
girl Leanne was nearly sabotaged by Nog's Ferengi attitude on a
double date; he was still seeing her weeks later at the time he
joined his dad in the Bajoran solar sailer.
The depths of his bond with Captain Sisko were borne out again
when the young man decided that a Starfleet life was not for
him, and was relieved when his surprised father supported his
ambitions to be a writer. His interest in poetry had been
exposed only months before at the infamous dinner with Sisko and
Mardah, and still later he'd been embarrassed about his writing
and an early story about the Maquis. Keiko, who had encouraged
Jake with his blossoming interest, helped him secure a
scholarship to the Pennington School in New Zealand in 2371,
though he deferred it a year - again out of concern about
leaving before his dad had begun dating. He visited the school
again a year later during the Dominion invasion scare and has
since not spoken of any plans there.
Jake's actions have also been heroic, helping to save himself,
his dad and O'Brien when the station's old counter-insurgency
program kicked into gear. Later, while in a reality eventually
to be known only to his father, he sacrificed his life as a
writer in a discarded timeline to give Sisko a second chance to
avoid a fatal accident on the U.S.S. Defiant.
Before Keiko O'Brien's school opened in 2369 he'd learned by
home study on computer, but quickly came to like her. Like any
teen, Jake didn't see the need in studying esoteric subjects
like Klingon opera. Algebra was not a simple school subject for
him, but only weeks later he was studying calculus. Although his
grades are "great" as of SD 47552, he placed in the lower third
on mechanical science and led his dad to ask O'Brien about a
tutoring mentorship; he calls himself a "low-tech kind of guy."
The training came in handy when he and Nog were trapped in the
Gamma Quadrant on a Runabout with the Jem'Hadar in pursuit,
having asked for a flying lesson only days before.
Playing with model starships was a boyhood pastime, and he's
also inherited some of the Sisko men's cooking flair; A favorite
drink is lemonade; he also enjoys I'danian spice pudding, and
orange juice and oatmeal for breakfast. Though he still has the
instrument, he took keyboard lessons for a while but it never
caught on. Within a few months after arriving at DS9 his other
hobbies, often shared with Nog, included school projects,
playing cards, dom-jot, and even baseball, with Jake inheriting
the passion from his dad and playing on his program in the
holosuites. By early 2370 he was batting against Bob Gibson's
curve ball in the holo-program; by midyear he could strike out
his dad with a curve ball, and a year later when he had grown as
tall as Sisko he could pitch inside to back off even his dad
from the plate.
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