Deep Space Nine, Episode 138
Original airdate: February 11, 1998
Stardate Unknown
Directed by Avery Brooks
Story by Marc Scott Zicree
Teleplay by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler
Rating: (10 out of 10)
Synopsis:
Frustrated by continued losses in the Dominion War, Captain Sisko has doubts
about his place in Starfleet. Perhaps brought on by the stress, he blacks out
and finds himself in 1953 New York working as an SF writer named Benny Russell.
Though his writing is published, he must conceal the fact that he is black.
When inspired by a sketch to write a story about a space station, he begins
to clearly see the world of Deep Space Nine and pens a story about the station
run by a black captain. He populates the story with characters based on his
fellow writers at the magazine, who resemble in human form the characters we
know and love from DS9. When the magazine refuses to publish the story as long
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