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Emissary ~ Star Trek inspired lip gloss

Handmade Creole sweet potato pie flavored lip gloss inspired by Captain Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek.

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Oh, dear… the trouble starts when you begin to like him…

Sisko is mainly just really, really incredibly good at managing shit

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like if every job in the world that has “manager” in the name had sisko doing it then i’m pretty sure the world would actually work

he just continually takes this staff of like a psychotic ex-terrorist religious fanatic, a 300 year old egomaniac, a ridiculous self-obsessed manchild, a ridiculous self-obsessed klingon manchild, a security guard with a raging god complex, and a fucking Quark, on a space station that doesn’t even work when he gets it, and against all probability manages to get all of them them to more or less consistently do more or less their actual jobs.

like, while fighting a war, fixing the planet full of religious extremists, and being space jesus

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"We liked the idea of showing the domestic life. In the midst of all the pressure that Sisko is under, he still has issues at home. He’s still a human being. Kasidy burns his peppers. That hurts! Life is hard, but you should not have to have your peppers burned!"

- Ira Behr, executive producer & writer
Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion

It’s really something to see Benjamin Sisko’s interaction with his family and think about how differently he treats family, compared to other captains.

I mean, I’m watching “Far Beyond the Stars”, and already his dad’s chatting with him in Ops and has rested a hand on his shoulder - in full view of the crew. Now he’s walking down the corridor with Kasidy Yates and they’re completely wrapped around each other, arms around waists, faces inches apart, clearly involved, having an emotional discussion.

I can’t even imagine Picard doing anything like that. Command is all. He could never lose face in the eyes of his crew that way.

And Kirk? Hmm. Nope. No pretty yeomen. His true love is Enterprise.

And sadly, neither one had a dad around to hug ‘em, I think. But in both cases, I can’t imagine them allowing it publicly.

Janeway? Didn’t she have a fairly firm “no romance” policy? And Archer… well, I really have no idea…

But Sisko lets his dad scold him, and hugs his girlfriend, and kisses his son, and loses not one whit of authority.

It’s really something to see.

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O Captain, My Captain: A Look Back At Deep Space Nine’s Ben Sisko | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

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By Guest Contributor Kendra James Star Trek: Deep Space Nine  is like The West Wing. But in space. With a Black president. Kind of. 

This is a great piece reflecting on the importance of Benjamin Sisko as a black man and a black captain. There are a million reasons to love DS9 and to love my fave captain, THE SISKO, and Kendra James brings being a person of colour into the mix and does it in a wonderful and thought-provoking reflection.

DS9 has your aliens and spaceships, and characters do occasionally say things like “set phasers to stun,” but theTrek cheese-factor is more often than not outweighed by the political storyarcs covered over six out of the show’s seven seasons, its criticisms of 20th century history, race relations in America, and lead actor, Avery Brooks, who stars as Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko–the first and only African-American captain to lead a televised Star Trek franchise.