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Fans want Captain Benjamin Sisko to make a return on Star Trek: Picard

ByRachel Carrington|
Nov. 2, 2015 – CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new “Star Trek” television series in January 2017. The brand-new “Star Trek” will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966. The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access, the Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.Pictured: Avery Brooks as Commander Sisko in STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINEScreen grab: ©1998 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Nov. 2, 2015 – CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new “Star Trek” television series in January 2017. The brand-new “Star Trek” will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966. The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access, the Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.Pictured: Avery Brooks as Commander Sisko in STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINEScreen grab: ©1998 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Star Trek: Picard only has three episodes left to finish out the season and the series.

With all the returning characters that have been popping up on Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans are holding out hope that Avery Brooks will reprise his role as Captain Benjamin Sisko in one of the last three episodes of the series. Brooks was last seen onscreen in the “The Captains,” the 2011 documentary produced by William Shatner. But, according to Cirroc Lofton, who played Sisko’s son on Deep Space Nine, Brooks has not retired from acting.

So one fan took to Twitter to ask if Brooks could show up as the surprise guest Wil Wheaton mentioned in The Ready Room. Terry Matalas, the showrunner for Picard, shot that down by saying the guest wasn’t a “crazy surprise.” That, to me, says the mystery guest is going to be someone we should expect or, at the very least, wouldn’t shock us.

Star Trek: Picard might not bring back Benjamin Sisko, but that doesn’t mean he’ll never return.

We already know that Matalas is interested in working on a spin-off series called Star Trek: Legacy. Most recently, he said he wanted to delve into the Berman-era if such a series was greenlit. And Avery Brooks was part of the height of that era. So it wouldn’t be surprising, if Matalas is allowed to take the reins on a new series, for him to reach out to all the former cast members of the series that came after Star Trek: The Original Series.

In fact, if such a show goes forward, I think we can expect to see a lot of the characters from shows we haven’t seen in a while. But even if it doesn’t, there are other current series that can reach out to the illustrious captain. Now that the ball is rolling and more 90s characters are returning to the Star Trek fold, it’s time for Avery Brooks to make an appearance. In fact, it’s past time.

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