- Airdate: 2/07/98
- Production #538
- Teleplay by:: Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
- Story by:: Marc Scott Zicree
- Directed by:: Avery
Brooks (Sisko)
- Guest Cast:
- Brock Peters (Joseph/Preacher)
- Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun/Mulkahey)
- Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat/Ryan)
- J.G. Hertzler (Martok/Roy)
- Aron
Eisenberg (Nog/Vendor)
- Penny Johnson (Kasidy/Cassie)
- Stardate not given: After the
loss of a friend in the war, a despondent Sisko
is considering giving up and leaving the fight to
someone else - but then he begins having strange
hallucinations, in which he is Benny Russell, a
struggling black writer for a science fiction
magazine, facing racism on Earth in the 1950's.
Inspired by a drawing of a space station, Benny
writes a story called "Deep
Space Nine",
about the adventures of Captain Benjamin Sisko -
but the magazine editor, Pabst, refuses to run
the story, believing that no one will want to
read a story about a black captain. Will Benny's
dream of a better future prevail...or is Pabst
right?
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