![]() That evening, as Russell leaves the office ( Incredible Tales is located in the Arthur Trill Building), the space station sketch is caught in a breeze and lands under the shoe of Burt Ryan ( Dukat) – an NYPD detective with an attitude. Let's just keep it that way," Pabst states, matter-of-factly. " It's not personal Benny, but as far as our readers are concerned, Benny Russell is as white as they are. There will be no picture of Eaton and no picture of Russell. Rossoff sarcastically quips about the dangers of "a Negro with a typewriter" and Russell is angry, but Pabst holds firm. Trouble starts, however, when Pabst announces that their publisher wants a group photo of the writing staff for the next issue, and Pabst "suggests" that Eaton and Russell "sleep late" the morning it is taken – the public needn't know that women and blacks are writing for Incredible Tales along with the white men. ![]() He takes the sketch and offers to create an appropriate story to accompany it. Russell is particularly taken with a drawing of a space station – basically a circle with pylons at 120 degree intervals, and "USAF DS/9" stenciled around the edge. The magazine's illustrator, Roy Ritterhouse ( Martok) comes in bearing a stack of science fiction sketches to distribute to the pool of writers for the next month's stories. When the bickering and general bustle ebbs enough, Pabst calls the meeting to order. Macklin is, as always, looking for matches to light his pipe, even though Russell just gave them to him. Eaton herself has been experimenting with White Rose Redi-Tea (" A pitcher of plain water becomes a pitcher of iced tea") – a concept her husband, Julius ( Julian Bashir), as a "self-respecting Englishman," finds appalling. When Russell and Macklin arrive at Incredible Tales – the science fiction magazine for which they work – they find writer Herbert Rossoff ( Quark) and editor Douglas Pabst ( Odo) engaged in "The Battle of the Doughnuts, Round 28" (as Eaton describes it). From this point until Sisko wakes up, the story is told from Benny Russell's perspective (as though the 1950s setting is the "real" world). They are merely characters in a dream created from the likeness of his real-world friends. ![]() The news vendor is not Nog, Macklin is not Miles O'Brien, and Kay Eaton is not Kira Nerys. They sound the same, and look at least somewhat similar, but they are not the same people. The people Russell knows at the office and meets on the street are similar to the people Sisko knows on the station. What's more, Sisko – or rather, Benny Russell – feels completely at home on this street, and when Albert Macklin comes around the corner they walk off together to the office. When Sisko takes a PADD to examine the data for himself, he finds himself instead looking at a copy of Galaxy at a New York newsstand. When Sisko follows the man through a door, he finds himself suddenly in the middle of a busy New York street and is immediately hit by a taxi.ĭoctor Bashir examines him in the infirmary and finds unusual synaptic potentials – his neural patterns look like they did when Sisko was having visions the year before. Later, when walking down a corridor with Kasidy Yates, Sisko is again confused when a baseball player walks past and calls, " Hey, Benny! Catch the game?" Again, Yates is sure she didn't see anyone. Dax, standing right outside in ops, insists she didn't see anyone, which only makes it a greater puzzle. Joseph promises to support his son no matter what decision he makes, but warns him to think carefully before he does anything.Īs he discusses the news with his father, Sisko is distracted and puzzled when he sees a strange man walk past his office dressed in 1950s Earth clothing. He is beginning to despair of making any kind of difference in the war effort at all, and is seriously considering stepping down and letting someone else make the tough decisions. ![]() That means Captain Quentin Swofford – a man Sisko knew well – is dead, and Sisko is distraught, given that he introduced Swofford to his wife. In particular, the USS Cortez has recently been destroyed, and even a six-hour search by the USS Defiant failed to discover any survivors. ![]() Although the Federation is in firm control of the station, the Cardassian border is still a risky place for Federation ships to patrol. Joseph Sisko, Captain Benjamin Sisko's father, has left Earth for the first time to visit his son and grandson on Deep Space 9, but his timing couldn't be worse.
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