I have received word from my own modest scoop sources about the final ep of DS9. What follows is the heart-rending, tear-jerking, but ulitmately emotionally fulfilling end of DS9. One thing you have to remember is that it was filmed last season, which explains the prescence of Jadzia Dax.
Sisko, now a retired old man living on Bajor, is dying. ("You will find no rest on Bajor.") He sends out letters to all his old friends summoning them to Bajor one last time. They meet and reminisce over old times. Ben spends one last platonic night with Cassidy Yates, then hopes onto the vox-controlled Defiant for a last trip around the Galaxy.
He goes to DS9 first, which is about to be demolished. He is surprised by Chief O'Brien, who crawls out of a Jeffries tube to greet his old commander. "I'm getting her ready for her big sendoff," O'Brien explains. "That explains why the letter was returned," Sisko muses. O'Brien asks him to explain, but Sisko just leaves.
His breathing is now labored, and he's going into full Avery Brooks mode. He takes the Defiant into the Wormhole where he "won the Dominion War." There, he is met by the baseball-uniform clad prophets, who turn him into a prophet.
At the end is a really sad voice-over by Jadzia as DS9 is self-destructed. "Deep Space 9 was the last of the Deep Space stations. There would never be another. It changed the franchise, and it changed us. It taught us to make the plotline, or Voyager would do it for us. <scene of Dominion fleet engaging Fed/Kling fleet> It taught us to let Dr. Bashir care for us. Because if he didn't, who would? <scene of Bashir waving magic wand over President Kira> But most importantly, I think it taught us that there's always second chances, even for actors like us. <scene of Terry Farrel and Ted Danson on "Becker"> As for Cassidy, every afternoon she snuck into the holosuite and watched a baseball game." <Cassidy and Sisko watching a game>
Posted on Mar 29, 1999, 7:27 PM from IP address 159.138.242.65