Star Trek’s Cirroc Lofton Has His Own Ideas On What Jake Sisko’s Been Doing Since DS9

It’s worth remembering that “Star Trek” has entered into a very nostalgia-heavy period. Several of Paramount’s current Trek shows are dedicated to legacy characters or rely on references to past shows. Villains from “Deep Space Nine” were major players in the most recent season of “Star Trek: Picard” and a new episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” took place on Deep Space Nine. On the “Lower Decks” episode, “Hear All, Trust Nothing” (September 29, 2022), audiences could see that Colonel Kira (Nana Visitor) and Quark (Armin Shimerman) still lived on the station, but there was no update on the show’s 30 other central characters. Jake Sisko hasn’t been seen on screen since the last episode of “Deep Space Nine” in 1999. 

In the 24 years since then, Jake must have developed a lot as a character and grown into a fascinating middle-aged man. According to Lofton, Jake has likely undergone a spiritual transformation. He said: 

“Yeah, I have thought about it. And because there’s no real closure to how Sisko leaves from Jake’s life, I would imagine that Jake would be seeking that kind of closure and be trying to communicate with his father in some way or another. If that meant, you know, studying the Bajoran faith, if that meant trying to have an experience with the Orbs and seeking those Orbs to find contact The Sisko, I think he would do something to that effect.”

At the end of DS9, Ben Sisko entered a nearby wormhole — a central feature of the series — and conjoined with a species of non-corporal aliens that lived inside. The aliens were worshiped by the Bajorans as divine prophets. Ben was deemed a holy figure — the Emissary — and he later more or less evolved into a god.