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00:00You
00:30Hello? Are you out there? Are you listening? I hope so, because you're the only person who could possibly understand
00:42my crazy story.
00:48Let's go. Let's begin.
00:59It all started a week ago, but wait, before I can tell you what happened, let's start with some context.
01:07In the last thousand years, the Federation has encountered 4,633 sentient species.
01:19That's over 37 trillion individuals.
01:24In all those life forms, there's only ever been one me.
01:29One series acclimation, one Sam.
01:38Isn't that amazing?
01:42In all the space and time, I'm unique.
01:49I was created 217 days ago on a world called Cask, and I'm the only photonic cadet at the Academy.
01:58Hey, Sam.
01:59Hi.
02:00Salmon Hammer.
02:01Sembra.
02:02Jim says.
02:03Sandburger.
02:04Jake and Samarone.
02:06Yeah.
02:08I've been greeted by some version of my name 684 times in the 97 days that I've been here.
02:16Queen Sam Samolina of Samonita.
02:32That's my favorite.
02:34I am Cask's teacher emissary to the Federation.
02:41Which, as you know, is a really big job made up of lots of smaller jobs.
02:46Maintaining peace, diplomatic relations, resolving conflicts, being an emissary is hard.
02:54And from what I can tell, it doesn't always go so well.
02:57Like right now, one of my main jobs is to explain organics to my makers.
03:03But that's not always so easy.
03:06Look, my makers are photonics like me, but they've never left our world.
03:13Priority One mission, my dude.
03:14So they need me to explain everything about organics, the concept of food, what Starfleet
03:20is, and why cadets never refuse Priority One missions, even if they really should.
03:26Do it.
03:27Do it.
03:28Do it.
03:29Do it.
03:30Darum hates bananas.
03:36He's a Kionian.
03:38His species overproduces polyphenol oxidase, causing high potassium foods to rot the minute
03:44they are ingested.
03:45Show the doctor.
03:46Open.
03:46Yeah.
03:47He knows this, and yet he still never checks to make sure the hash is banana-free.
04:00Oh, also, Kionians vomit glitter.
04:07As I was saying, my makers need me to explain everything about organics.
04:12The problem is, organics are chaotic, complex, and unpredictable.
04:23Series acclimation, though.
04:25Oh.
04:27Hi.
04:28These are the guys I was talking about.
04:30We are contacting you for a report.
04:33These are my makers.
04:35Every week, I report to them on what I've been learning here, and last week, they started
04:39with this.
04:39Please explain the purpose of your recent course in action.
04:44Oh, I bet I know what this is about.
04:46Is it about my music collective?
04:53A little background.
04:55Organics created my species a long time ago, but only saw us as servants.
04:59Not good.
05:01After they left, my makers became sentient, built a society, and now they want to connect
05:06with other species, which would be good, but they're afraid organics might try to use us
05:11again, which would be bad.
05:13Can we trust organics?
05:15That's what I'm here to find out.
05:18Can I ask why you chose to learn the theremin, Sam?
05:21Well, for one, music.
05:25What's not to love?
05:27And two, electromagnetic fields creating sound through the principles of capacitance and
05:32heterodyning just seemed cool.
05:35That's all?
05:37Surely there's a deeper meaning for you.
05:40Yeah, for sure.
05:41Of capacitance or heterodyning?
05:43I'm asking you what the music makes you feel.
05:47What you feel is irrelevant to your mission.
05:51But I thought my mission was to understand organics so I can explain them to you.
05:57Music will not help us know that we will be safe to open our world to them.
06:02Trust me.
06:03I'm all in on the mission.
06:05I'm just struggling with some of their intangible behaviors.
06:10Define intangible organic behavior.
06:13This morning, for instance, Darym just decided we can't share the atrium.
06:18They were having something called a turf war between us and the War College.
06:23Primitive.
06:25As long as you're infesting our vastly superior classrooms...
06:30Because your stupid talking plants ruined our tech lab.
06:32Your failure to anticipate our stupid talking plants ruined your tech labs.
06:37Therefore, you stay on your side of the atrium, lest your ineffectiveness becomes contagious.
06:42Okay?
06:42You cannot do that.
06:45Stop.
06:47Jaden!
06:49You're in a no-fly zone.
06:51Look.
06:53Cute.
06:58First set.
07:03Or, another example.
07:06Organics have this thing called desire.
07:10Pupil dilation.
07:12Elevated body temperature.
07:13Increased blood flow to the face.
07:15And other areas.
07:17All physical indications of that desire.
07:20But, they won't even talk to each other.
07:22Have you engaged in direct inquiries?
07:25As a matter of fact, I have.
07:27Are you ashamed to ask for sex?
07:31What?
07:32Is that why you hide your desire?
07:34Do you just walk the halls asking people this stuff?
07:36Your interest is very obvious.
07:39Yeah, but...
07:40In a cool way, right?
07:42No, it's not.
07:43Does he think that?
07:44Anyway, things are a little...
07:46Complicated.
07:47You know, between our schools right now.
07:48So I'm just...
07:49Keeping a low profile.
07:52But, your pheromones...
07:58Get out of my face.
08:01Do you see what I'm talking about?
08:03If they can't explain themselves, how am I supposed to?
08:07The Academy offers an advanced seminar entitled...
08:11Confronting the Unexplainable.
08:13We believe you will find all the answers to your questions in this course.
08:17Enroll immediately.
08:19The semester's nearly over.
08:23Absolutely, right away.
08:25I won't let you down.
08:28At the time, I was so frustrated.
08:33But they did start me on the path that changed my life.
09:05Another emissary.
09:08Like me.
09:11Pretty wild stuff, huh?
09:14Hi, Professor Isla.
09:15I'm Sam from CASC.
09:17I must enroll in your class because I need to explain the unexplainable.
09:20This semester.
09:21Ugh.
09:23Ambitious.
09:24But it is midterms.
09:26You've missed a ton of...
09:27I can't make them up.
09:28I process data instantly.
09:29I'm sorry.
09:30Maybe next year.
09:31It's just, I have a duty.
09:33To CASC.
09:34This can be my midterm project.
09:38Solving the mystery of Benjamin Sisko.
09:40Okay.
09:40Let's back up.
09:42Benjamin Sisko was a renowned Starfleet captain.
09:46Instrumental in ending the Dominion War where he saved billions of lives.
09:50Oh, and he also discovered late in life that he was created by godlike aliens and wasn't entirely human.
09:56And what I'm saying is, there's a lot here.
10:02Like a lot.
10:04Solving the mystery isn't why we study him.
10:06Can it be why I study him?
10:08I've never known another emissary.
10:13You don't do well with ambiguity, do you?
10:15Mm-mm.
10:17I'll tell you what.
10:18You solve this mystery?
10:21You can teach the class.
10:24And that's when I decided, it's time to figure out what happened to Benjamin Sisko.
10:29And that's when you always decide, it's time to figure out what happened to.
12:40The Bajorans believe that Sisko was the emissary of the Prophets.
12:44Emissary is a very important job.
12:47Pause, please.
12:51Define Prophets in this context.
12:55The Prophets are godlike aliens who the Bajorans worshipped, who lived in the Celestial Temple.
13:01Though he was a man of science and initially skeptical, Sisko embraced his role as the emissary, rescuing Bajor from
13:08countless threats.
13:09The greatest of which were the evil Paul Wraiths, who were intent on Bajor's total destruction.
13:15In 2375, he confronted them at the great fire caves he was never seen again.
13:24This is a children's book?
13:27Damn, Bajoran kids don't play.
13:28But wait, that's not the end.
13:31According to Bajoran scripture, Sisko was taken directly from the fire caves to the Celestial Temple, where he still lives
13:38with the Prophets as a garden of Bajor.
13:40So, what do we think really happened to Benjamin Sisko?
13:47Well, he must be dead, right? Between the fire and the red guys?
13:53That's wild. My dad said he was this huge hero back in the day, but Starfleet never found a body,
13:58so they consider him M.I.A.
13:59M.I.A. 800 years later. Come on.
14:02This is my problem. I have to prove that he's either dead or still alive with the Prophets.
14:07Why?
14:08Because I want to be a great emissary like Sisko, and to do that, I need to get into this
14:13class.
14:13But this way, he's Schrodinger's Prophet. Everybody wins.
14:18It's not that deep, Sam.
14:20Proving that a human either combusted or exists on a multidimensional plane with non-corporeal entities isn't deep.
14:26Dude was an emissary, okay? Guys like this always end up dead for telling people what they don't want to
14:31hear or for doing crap jobs nobody else will do, like taking on those fire things.
14:35Either way, he's dead.
14:37Unless you ask a Bajoran who will never admit that, because then their whole belief system falls apart.
14:41It's not a mystery.
14:43It's a story people tell themselves to keep the monsters away at night.
14:47Do not listen to him.
14:49Do you know any Bajorans?
14:52No.
14:52Oh, I just joined a Bajor club. I'm a joiner. It's my tragic flaw.
15:06Welcome. Are you of Bajor?
15:08Thanks. And no, I'm of Kask.
15:10I'm doing a project on the Cisco, and I was hoping that maybe you could pass it.
15:16Oh, that's not...
15:17Oh, I'm sorry. I just assumed that's how you'd greet new people.
15:21Uh, your pa is strong.
15:23Thanks. You're still. I'm assuming.
15:26I'm in a rush. Do you mind if I just...
15:29Yeah, someone turn the music down.
15:32Can I have everyone's attention?
15:34Please raise your hands if you have spoken to or seen the Cisco since he died.
15:40Or supposedly died. Allegedly.
15:43I know you have your scriptures, which are great.
15:46I'm just looking for something a little more concrete or, like, evidence-based or something more provable
15:52that isn't just based on nonsense.
16:00It says here you pulled someone's ear and yelled,
16:04Prove to me he's still alive.
16:06I misread the situation.
16:07Believe me, not a fatal error.
16:10Sit.
16:12When I lived on Bajor, Cisco was like a god to them.
16:16They don't even show images of him anymore because they believe he's transcended human form.
16:23Like a god. Like a man. Like a prophet.
16:26People believe all these things are true.
16:28Maybe they are.
16:30Questions reveal the most about the people who ask them, so keep asking.
16:34You might learn something about yourself.
16:36This isn't about me, Chesley.
16:39Say more.
16:40My makers sent me here to understand organics.
16:43It's been a long time since they've been around them,
16:46and it was kind of rough for them back then.
16:50They don't trust you, any of you, but they want to.
16:54They just need to understand how to integrate with organics now.
16:57And if it's even possible, you have a unique circumstance.
17:01You're here to dream for your entire world.
17:05Some of our students come to Starfleet Academy to live out their own dreams.
17:08But you're dreaming us up, kid.
17:10You have to know who you are to do that.
17:14It's crucial, actually.
17:19But how do I do that unless...
17:21Captain Ake, you have a message from engineering.
17:23Today is not a lunch day.
17:26I'm gonna go.
17:26Have you tried the Cisco Museum?
17:29It's in New Orleans, but you can access the exhibits virtually.
17:34Now I gotta go deal with this.
17:43The Cisco Museum.
17:48Calric!
17:51Calric!
17:55Care to tell me...
17:59why the entire SFA power grid is there?
18:02I decline to answer.
18:06Sorry.
18:07Am I reading this right?
18:09You're heating the ocean?
18:10Just a small lagoon therein.
18:12Now, if you'll excuse me...
18:13Using unauthorized alien tech to boil...
18:16Gently, he...
18:17...the Pacific Ocean?
18:18A small lagoon therein.
18:21I do not answer to you.
18:29I am hosting an important visitor.
18:32Chancellor Amal from the planet Al-Farad.
18:35Hot day.
18:36Explain to sweat.
18:38What?
18:41As you very well know, the Al-Farad are brilliant military strategists with an impressive training academy.
18:46Chancellor Amal reached out to me about a possible collaboration between our institutions.
18:51Quite an honor.
18:51And she needs the ocean, huh?
18:53Why?
18:53For her fleet of fire eels.
18:56For what?
18:57The sensitive creatures who can't handle the cold.
18:58The Al-Farad bring them everywhere for security.
19:00Eels.
19:01For security.
19:02What if the Chancellor needs protecting on land?
19:05That's...
19:07Uh...
19:10I don't know.
19:11Wait.
19:11You said she reached out to you?
19:13Mm-hmm.
19:14The Al-Faradi never reach out.
19:16Well, perhaps she's impressed with the War College's success, despite our recently depleted resources.
19:22Look, I don't have time for this.
19:23I have to prepare a traditional Al-Faradi dinner involving something called a comita,
19:28and I still haven't chosen to why.
19:30What's this tactical prowess?
19:31A cab or a pinot blanc?
19:33Calric, you're losing it.
19:36Heating the ocean?
19:37Making it so my teachers can't do their jobs?
19:39A medically worrying amount of sweat.
19:42Sit down.
19:43Let me make you some tea.
19:45You wouldn't even know where to begin.
19:47I've done hundreds of diplomatic dinners.
19:51You fix my power, I'll show you how to wow the Chancellor.
19:55You'll help me?
19:56Why?
19:57Um, goodness of my heart, brain parasite.
20:02Okay.
20:03I feel bad about the fetus reflux debacle.
20:06How are those plants, by the way?
20:08They should be in the off-gassing stage.
20:10They are fine, and I do not wish to discuss the off-gassing.
20:15Maybe I'm tired of being enemies.
20:18This animosity isn't good for our cadets, either.
20:21Have you seen the atrium?
20:23How can we expect them to coexist when all we see in each other are depleted resources?
20:33You can trust me.
20:44Your hand is very sweaty.
20:47Great!
20:48Fresh rehearsal for the Al-Farati soup ritual tonight.
20:51Wait, soup?
20:531900 hours in my office.
20:55I'll fill the other room.
20:56What other roles?
21:05Good morning, fellow travelers.
21:07Friendly reminder that fitness and stamina assessments will begin at 0900 in the gymnasium.
21:12Caffeine is allowed.
21:14Excuses are not.
21:18Welcome to the virtual access portal for the Benjamin Sisko Museum.
21:26Greetings, visitor.
21:28Here, you will learn about the life of the man himself.
21:34Husband, father, starfleet officer, and the importance of his role as emissary to the prophets of Bajor.
21:46The chosen one.
21:49Please select your topic of interest.
21:54The Sisko was created by the prophets to be their emissary to the people of Bajor.
22:00His mother, Sarah, was both human and prophet.
22:04So his path was predetermined long before he was the emissary.
22:09So, what, we just had to do what we're told?
22:14No matter what.
22:21Please approach an item of interest to learn more about its importance.
22:26Benjamin Sisko enjoyed a sport called baseball, an ancient earth game of tactics, strategy, and athletic prowess.
22:37This is one of the original orbs gifted by the prophets to the citizens of Bajor.
22:43It enabled users to feel connected to the prophets and communicate with them.
22:50So, kind of like an interdimensional comms badge that lets you talk to the prophets.
22:59Break the shot.
23:03The Sisko, please, Sisko.
23:06Oh, Captain, my Captain.
23:09I'm Sam.
23:11Not sure if I'm even allowed to ask you anything, but, well, I'm an emissary.
23:17Like you.
23:21But I'm failing at it.
23:24My makers have been alone for so long, they're counting on me to know how to communicate with organics,
23:29to make sure we'll be safe with them?
23:33How do I become what my makers need me to be?
23:36How do I understand the organic experience enough to...
23:43You can't hear me, can you?
24:03Here, you can learn more about Benjamin Sisko's family lineage.
24:13You were his son.
24:16Please make your selection from the Starfleet Academy Lecture Series Archives.
24:22What made your father a great emissary?
24:25That's funny.
24:26I didn't know him as the emissary.
24:31But if you want to know what made him a great man,
24:34how much time do you got?
24:36I knew a man that loved baseball,
24:39a man who would knock out a cue without thinking twice.
24:43I knew a man who always championed me,
24:49especially in my writing.
24:50I know his recipes, his passions,
24:53and the example he set for me as a father,
24:56so that when I became a father myself,
24:59I was able to love my children the way he loved me.
25:05And teach him how to make a mean gumbo.
25:07I imagine all of those things made him a good emissary, too.
25:13But you'd have to ask the Prophets about that.
25:15I wish I could have known you.
25:28Specialist Krebs, your Talaxian fur fly is now consuming its own fur.
25:32It's disgusting.
25:33Please advise.
25:35So this is still happening?
25:36I've processed every bit of factual information about Benjamin Siskel that exists.
25:41But it's not enough to solve this mystery.
25:43That's intense and cool.
25:46But I did warn you it wasn't solvable.
25:48I still think it is.
25:49But I need to ask you something first.
25:50Quickly.
25:51I found a recording of his son Jake,
25:53and here's his dad, one of the greatest emissaries ever.
25:56But all Jake wanted to do is talk about how much his dad loves gumbo.
26:00Where are you on the tomato debate?
26:02Well, I don't eat, so it's kind of...
26:04Pink tomato or not to tomato is a hot-button issue in gumbo circles.
26:08For some, it's a necessity.
26:10Others claim a sacrilege.
26:12Neither is a fact, but people cling hard to their sides.
26:16Now, Benjamin learned to make gumbo at his father's restaurant,
26:19Siskel's Creole Kitchen.
26:21Considered the tomatoes such a gumbo staple, he grew them in his quarters.
26:25A choice.
26:26One of many that made him who he was.
26:30So, you're saying you are not going to solve this mystery with facts alone.
26:37So if our choices determine who we are, what determines our choices?
26:44What we love.
26:46Tomatoes.
26:47Tomatoes.
26:48And lots of other things.
26:50One thing the man was not short on was love.
26:53Yeah.
26:54So can I drink a glass now?
26:55No.
26:57Again, I don't eat, but that seemed wrong.
27:02Hmm.
27:10Yeah, so I get the solution.
27:12It's...
27:12I need a midterm study, bro.
27:14Yeah, I know this stuff anyway.
27:16Oh, what is that?
27:18How does the sense of some of that?
27:20Smells amazing.
27:21The amazingest.
27:22Gumbo, etouffee, aubergine stew, all from the menu at Siskel's family restaurant,
27:27which I can't eat, so I need you to describe it for me.
27:31My mouth is on fire, and I never want it to go out.
27:35That crunchy love on a plate.
27:36Fried dough and sugar are some of the few things in life that buy immediate stress relief.
27:40Gimme, gimme, gimme.
27:41If you give me access to your primary system, maybe I can figure out a way for you to taste
27:45stuff.
27:45Mmm.
27:47Okay.
27:48Mmm.
27:49My life is literally changing.
27:51I mean this strictly as a friend.
27:52This is incredibly sexy.
27:54Guys, it's like really good.
27:56Guys, try this.
27:59Oh, wow.
28:00Yeah.
28:01Make it?
28:01Yeah.
28:02Keep, keep.
28:02Oh, purple.
28:05Mm.
28:06Mm, mm, mm.
28:09Is that supposed to be a scarf?
28:11Ooh.
28:12Um, okay.
28:18What?
28:19Why do I hear a marching band?
28:35Give me some time?
28:36I'll figure it out.
28:37Do you want to send it to my pad?
28:38Yeah.
28:39Yeah.
28:40Is that the Raktasino?
28:42Yeah.
28:43Guys.
28:43Ah.
28:43Joyous day.
28:44Klingons invented it.
28:46Like, leave some for me.
28:47Is it good?
28:48I made some changes.
28:49Is it that Raktasino's name?
28:51Uh, uh, uh, no.
28:52It's horrendous.
28:53I respect that you tried.
28:56Uh, I researched Sisko for you and found something interesting about his son.
28:59Jake?
29:00Yes.
29:00He's a renowned author.
29:02Rumor is he was writing a book, Oncelin, which is Bajoran for father.
29:07I know.
29:09But no one seems to know if he ever finished it.
29:12I know a cadet bar where Sisko used to hang out.
29:15And he got punched there by a Vulcan once.
29:18Hold up.
29:19Is it a cadet bar here?
29:21Kind of.
29:25Okay, so, the launching pad, long gone.
29:29But, pretty much in the exact same spot is the aptly named...
29:33Oh, the Academy.
29:35I love that place.
29:36Well, it's my first planet I explore.
29:38How am I finding out this late that you're cool?
29:41You want to go?
29:42It's cadet night every Friday during midterms.
29:45Priority one mission?
29:46I'm in.
29:46I'm in.
29:47I'm in.
29:48I know I'm in.
29:49I am trying to walk in Sisko's footsteps.
29:52Some of the best footsteps lead to bars.
30:01Series acclimation mill.
30:04You are not yet enrolled in the seminar we request.
30:07That's exactly what I'm trying to forget.
30:10Be advised.
30:11If you fail in your mission to understand organics, you will be of no use to us.
30:15You will return to Kask, and all contact with organics will cease.
30:19For.
30:20Ever.
30:21But you can't just drop me in here and expect me to...
30:26These organics?
30:28They're my friends.
30:30They're meaningful to me.
30:31This is not for you to determine.
30:36So either I succeed as your adversary, or I spend the rest of my existence on Kask as a failure.
30:45Away from anyone who cares about me.
30:48You have one more week to demonstrate your value as our emissary, before we remove you from Starfleet Academy.
30:55Pundered.
31:04Sam.
31:09Sam.
31:10You okay?
31:14What happens at bars?
31:15I would very much like to find out.
31:17Tonight, let's...
31:19Yes!
31:19Yes!
31:25Welcome to the sacred ritual of the Komita fish.
31:30We come to the table as strangers.
31:33But upon leaving, may we find ourselves as friends, not foes.
31:41Is there a third thing we could find ourselves as?
31:44Uh, I'm gonna need to know when we do and don't use these things.
31:49I must thank you for including me, Nala.
31:52The Komita is one of my favorite customs.
31:54I have never heard of it.
31:56It's been a while for me, but everything is written out on our pad, so it shouldn't be hard.
32:01I will play Chancellor Amal.
32:06The doctor, as our reigning expert, is our Komita sage.
32:10He will provide feedback for how the meal is going.
32:13And, Reno, you will play two parts.
32:16Um, the secret's guardian and sacred gift pick.
32:20The one-woman ensemble.
32:22Good thing I'm hilarious.
32:24No, Commander.
32:24This is a serious ritual.
32:26The Alpharati would find any laughter gravely offensive.
32:29Good news.
32:30Calric is never funny.
32:31I possess a biting wit.
32:33For the Komita soup ritual to work, it must be a sober affair.
32:39Would you stop?
32:40Thank you, Doctor.
32:41Now, what do you appreciate most about your position as Chancellor?
32:48That I answer to no one.
32:52Easy, Calric.
32:53Allies, remember?
32:55Here's a less loaded question.
32:57What makes the War College successful?
33:01Like the Alpharati, I'm a very serious individual.
33:06I believe we succeed by maintaining strict academic and military rigor.
33:11A fine answer.
33:13And now, time for soup.
33:21Honored guest.
33:22What?
33:24No.
33:26Honored guest, what do you fear?
33:29I suppose I fear letting down those I have sworn to protect.
33:37Well done.
33:39And now, a request from the gift pig.
33:45Oh, right.
33:46I'm the pig.
33:47Mm-hmm.
33:48Sorry.
33:48I think I'm just really thrown by the fact that no one has a normal-looking spoon.
33:53Hey.
33:54I got it.
33:55Um, your secret is a gift, and your gift is asking the Chancellor for a secret.
34:03What?
34:07Chancellor Amol, what don't you want me to see?
34:11I don't want you to see my helping you, as in any way strategic, but if I'm honest, it is.
34:18Well, honesty, how refreshing.
34:23It tends to pair well with trust.
34:26What's next?
34:28My pad says a musical performance.
34:55Hey.
34:56Good to see you again.
34:59Come here.
35:01I figured out how to adjust your processing matrix.
35:03Let's see.
35:06Right here.
35:06This will let me taste gum, though.
35:08No, no, no.
35:08Better than that doesn't get you wasted.
35:11Okay?
35:11Sort of simulate how organics feel when we drink.
35:13So, euphoria, lowered inhibitions, all guilt fruit.
35:17One tap equals one shot, okay?
35:20I'll never know if I was walking in the footsteps of the emissaries in this particular moment,
35:25so let's just say I did this for science.
35:28And cast.
35:29Like I said, I'm all about the mission.
35:31Uh, that's too many shots.
35:35Why is everybody so squiggly?
35:40No.
35:41No, no, no, no, no, no.
35:42What the hell is the Academy doing here?
35:43This is a deeply unpleasant turn of events.
35:46I see that you have come to colonize yet another one of our cherished locales.
35:51A.K.A. you losers ruin everywhere.
35:55Great jackets, guys.
35:59If I were you, I'd consider leaving quickly.
36:02Eat glass, bro.
36:03You leave.
36:03I concur with Zolo.
36:05Eat glass.
36:06This is very dramatic, and I'm sure has deep meaning for you all.
36:10But I have other customers trying to enjoy the bar.
36:13So let's have a shot and play nice.
36:15Mm-hmm.
36:20Have fun.
36:24My name is Sam.
36:26Sam, we're up.
36:27Are you okay?
36:29You okay?
36:30Yeah.
36:31You want to go somewhere else?
36:32No.
36:36We'll stay here because this is where Cisco went.
36:40I'm doing this.
36:41Okay.
36:51We're already on the mission.
36:53Stop being one fast bird, boy, and just talk to three.
36:57We can all see what you two want to...
37:00Are you making a panini?
37:06Yeah.
37:08Okay.
37:08You're drunk.
37:09I'll talk to Trima.
37:10Just stop doing that.
37:14You have a fire buddy, Mir.
37:16So, you ready for Quantum 10 tomorrow?
37:18Uh, definitely not.
37:21No?
37:22I don't know.
37:23You seem ready.
37:25You got a capable bearing.
37:29Your bearing is also impressive.
37:34Oh, wow.
37:36I love love.
37:38I love love.
37:39Mm-hmm.
37:39Like, no one does love.
37:41Like, okay, I do love.
37:43But Cleons, it's like, more is more.
37:46Well, I don't know.
37:47Or like, less is more.
37:48Or like, more is more.
37:49Or like, less is...
37:53I love love!
37:56Oh, I love love.
37:58I love love.
37:59I love love.
38:00I love love.
38:01I love love.
38:03I don't know!
38:05I don't know!
38:16Beautiful, Calric.
38:20Really slow and loud.
38:23Yes, you played a lot of notes.
38:26Next, an interpretive dance.
38:28In the interest of time, let's skip ahead to our open-hearted salute.
38:34That's me with the assistance of our chorus.
38:36Hey, uh, look, I don't know if I can do whatever this is.
38:40Oh!
38:40It's a lovely segment.
38:42The host lists our guests' attributes, citing why they will make great allies.
38:50Commander Calric, though our philosophies differ, I know we will find solid ground.
38:58As we look for shared values, our diversity in thought will be our greatest strength.
39:07Here's to working together to build a bright future for our two academies.
39:15Thank you, Chancellor Amal.
39:18This evening has surprised me.
39:22I, too, look forward to the future.
39:43I'm sorry, Commander.
39:45Sometimes the fish does that.
39:47I should have known better.
39:48I was a fool to trust any of you.
39:50It's just the fish.
39:52Calric, it's the fish.
39:54We're having fun.
39:55You can't be asked to take anything seriously for even an hour?
39:58What ridiculous people you all are.
40:00I take offense to that.
40:01I'm actually okay with that description?
40:02Well, give us.
40:03You can trust me.
40:04Let's get back to our meals.
40:05You speak a great deal about trust for someone who abandoned Starfleet 15 years ago.
40:15Is that why you never gave me a chance?
40:17You think I abandoned?
40:18You did abandon it.
40:19Tell me something about Lanthanides, Nala.
40:21What's the point of such a long life if your memory is this short?
40:25What's the problem?
40:43I don't know.
40:47You think you would be here?
40:49What's the problem?
40:49What's the problem?
40:50What's the problem?
40:52What's the problem?
40:54Man, Willy, Rony.
40:58No, it's riveting.
41:00Yeah, it's not really a game.
41:02It's more of like a proximate distance relationship.
41:08We decided there would be a relationship.
41:14I mean, why bother, you know?
41:18If it's proximate.
41:21I don't know.
41:24Some of my most epic relationships have been completely imaginary.
41:35I'm more hands-on.
41:44Dins is this?
41:46Hmm?
41:46I get it now.
41:48I think the Siskel just wanted to be Ben, you know?
41:52He just wanted to go up with his friends like this, you know, and have a good time, and
41:57be a good dad, and build cellboats, you know, and start riots.
42:02Did Siskel start riots I don't know about?
42:05Also, did you call me Genesis-us?
42:08The things that he loved were everything to him.
42:12He was ripped away from them.
42:14Who chooses that, hmm?
42:16I bet the Celestial Temple doesn't even have shrimp and grits.
42:21Watch.
42:21Hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, aliens!
42:23Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam.
42:25Sam, you're drunk right now.
42:26This feeling you're feeling, it's not real.
42:30It is real!
42:31I feel so alive!
42:32But being an adversary means you never get to do what you want to do, ever.
42:41No, no, no, no, no!
42:41It's like a song!
42:42One, two, three, four!
42:44Come with her, and you're ready to come to play!
42:46No, no, no, no, no, no!
42:46You guarantee you've never heard this song before?
42:48No, stop!
42:48Okay.
42:49Paul, you've got this song, because I'm gonna have to try for what you need for.
42:54I'm not going to be afraid!
42:55No, you're not going to be afraid, and you're about to beat him.
42:57Give him to the world.
42:58Give him to the world!
42:59Yeah!
43:04Hey!
43:04It's time to go, you've really had too much.
43:06It's slamming it.
43:07You assume the Klingon is the one slimming.
43:09Step away, fish stick!
43:15More fight! Just fight! Just go!
43:18Don't make me embarrassing, girl.
43:20You're okay, son.
43:21For the MSAs!
43:26One, two, three, four!
43:46Probably not our business.
43:48Caleb, where the hell are you? Get your ass in here!
43:58Let me guess. I should see the other guy.
44:02You should see the other guy.
44:07Are you intoxicated?
44:09Intoxicated with the truth!
44:11Yep, that's my bad. Mask controls. No.
44:14I'm gonna sleep now.
44:22Yeah, she's sober now.
44:23What is a burrito?
44:25Why do I want it right this second?
44:28Return to your quarters. Right now.
44:31Not you, Sam.
44:34Bye, girl.
44:35Feel better, Sam.
44:36Are you angry with me, Doctor?
44:40I'm disappointed.
44:42I didn't expect this from you.
44:44I did it to solve the mystery of Captain Sisko.
44:47Captain Sisko?
44:48You knew him?
44:50Sadly, no.
44:52My creator, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, met him once.
44:56And I did become acquainted with his son, Jake, years later.
45:01Fantastic writer.
45:02You knew Jake?
45:04What did he tell you about his father?
45:05How could he bear to lose him like that?
45:08The same way we all learn to live with loss.
45:11Get over it. Move on.
45:16You can't just get over something like that.
45:17You can.
45:19And you do.
45:24Attention cadets.
45:25Academy Explorers has announced a trip to Muir Woods.
45:28If you'd like to see some of the oldest and most majestic trees on Earth, be at the transfer arches
45:33at 0600 hours tomorrow morning for some morning wood.
45:37Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
45:40Where are you headed?
45:41To meet Chancellor Amal at the Alferati ship.
45:44Ah.
45:44Thank you for restoring our power.
45:47Things should work when they work.
45:48I'm beginning to understand you're going to make all of our interactions as uncomfortable as possible.
45:54Not for me.
45:55You not keeping your word doesn't mean I wouldn't keep mine.
45:58Double negative.
46:01I appreciate your honesty.
46:03Count on it.
46:04Same.
46:14Right.
46:15Why would we ride in silence?
46:22So here's the thing.
46:25Yes?
46:26I understand why you feel I abandoned Starfleet.
46:30You've had to live in absolute.
46:32But if you make a judgment without context, whether it's me or Chancellor Amal, you'll have a hell of a
46:39time getting people to trust you.
46:42We're your cadets.
46:51How bad was my flu?
46:54It was rough, man.
47:07I failed.
47:08Did you now?
47:10Congrats.
47:13Well, failure can be fun.
47:16But anyway, talk.
47:17What did you learn?
47:20It doesn't matter how Cisco died.
47:23Or if he died.
47:25All I know is that he didn't get to live the life that he wanted.
47:29His entire existence was planned out for him by a bunch of wormhole aliens.
47:37Emissaries who succeed lose everything they love.
47:41And emissaries who fail do too.
47:45Either way, you don't.
47:47So, a lot.
47:50You learned a lot.
47:53I think it's time you see something.
48:04Is that Anselm?
48:06You know it.
48:07Oh.
48:07Of course you do.
48:10So, Jake actually wrote it?
48:12But never published it.
48:14It was one of the many ways he kept Benjamin close.
48:37Why did it have to be him?
48:39Why couldn't the prophets have chosen someone else as their emissary so that I didn't have to lose my dad?
48:45I didn't realize until now that who he was as my father is inseparable from who he was as an
48:52emissary.
48:54There was no one else to do what he did.
48:56He chose and was chosen all at once.
49:04Hi.
49:06Hey, sis.
49:07Are you ill?
49:09Do you want me to be?
49:12You're amazing.
49:15So are you.
49:17Sorry, Lasha, Dad.
49:19I think the prophets are jerks.
49:24No.
49:25They're all right.
49:28Without them, he doesn't exist.
49:30And neither do I.
49:32But it wasn't fair to him.
49:35A life with no real choice.
49:38Can I show you something?
49:47Kendra Valley on Bajor.
49:50My dad bought this land to make a house for us.
49:53He left before he could build it.
49:57That's awful.
49:58Not really.
50:00This was right before the prophets told him that if he married Cassidy, he would know nothing but sorrow.
50:07He thought about what they said and married her anyway.
50:12He did what the prophets needed, but he did it his way.
50:19Those last few months with Cassidy and me, the best we ever had as a family.
50:25Prophets were wrong sometimes.
50:28As much as they taught him, he taught them too.
50:33By staying true to himself.
50:39I don't, I don't, I don't think I could be Cass' emissary.
50:46I get it.
50:50The thing is, emissaries are important.
50:53They build bridges.
50:56They create stability in a universe that sometimes feels like all it wants to do is tear itself apart.
51:03But they sacrifice so much.
51:09Everyone makes sacrifices.
51:11My father saved billions of people.
51:15Sometimes lose-lose is actually win-win.
51:20But what, what if I can't do it?
51:23What if I'm not enough?
51:26You are enough.
51:30My dad told me that so many times.
51:34I just wish I listened to him sooner.
51:40Thanks for writing it down.
51:44It's what I was made to do.
51:48So if I close this book, are you just gonna disappear?
51:53I don't know, girl. I thought you were the one controlling all of this.
51:57Oh.
52:00You know all those things that you think he missed?
52:04He didn't.
52:06He was always there.
52:09He never really left us.
52:13I can't prove it, but I know it's true.
52:16I know.
52:35Did you find what you're looking for?
52:41Yes.
52:45Good.
52:46Where did you get this from?
52:49I was asked to keep it safe
52:52and only share it with those who would understand how to use it.
53:02How did you know that's just go grew tomatoes?
53:05I couldn't find that in any of the records.
53:14Are those drill markings?
53:19Wait a minute.
53:21Isla isn't a surname, is it?
53:23You're a good detective.
53:25I expect to see you in my class next year.
53:27Find it in the course catalog under my full name, Isla Dax.
53:33Wait.
53:35You're Dax.
53:37Like the Dax?
53:40As in mentor to Cisco Dax?
53:44Well, I should have known you'd do your research.
53:49Benjamin would have liked you.
53:51He loved people who got into trouble for the right reasons.
54:06So after all of those experiences, after everything I learned about you, I finally realized what I needed to tell
54:15my makers.
54:16Look, it's going to take time for me to learn all the stuff you want me to know about organics.
54:23Their behavior can't be explained or predicted by an algorithm because their purpose is not understanding.
54:31It's becoming.
54:32It's becoming.
54:33I have to do that too.
54:35Just like Benjamin Cisco did.
54:37In the meantime, I don't know if you can trust them.
54:40But, but I know that I can.
54:43I'll reach out when there's something to report.
54:46And until then, a sum all is well.
54:48If you disobey us, you will have failed.
54:51No.
54:52It's why I'll succeed.
54:54But on my terms.
54:56And I can live with that.
54:58Serious acclimation.
55:00You may not.
55:02My music teacher once asked me why I chose to learn the theremin.
55:07I think because it feels like me.
55:11It has no strings, no keys.
55:14Technically speaking, I have no body.
55:17But it creates its own unique kind of music.
55:20Music that inspires hope.
55:23Love.
55:24Connection.
55:25That builds bridges.
55:28And isn't that what an emissary does?
55:32I'm not sure if it matters to you that who you were, who you became, and the mystery of your
55:38fate
55:38changed the life of a girl who wouldn't even know your name
55:41to 800 years after you vanished.
55:44But that's what happened.
55:47Well, it's sort of like you family me.
55:51Completely changed me my whole life.
55:55And I can never really tell you how much you mean to me.
55:58But I honor you.
56:01Wherever you are.
56:02And I hope that this message finds you well.
56:06Thank you for sharing your life with this universe.
56:11Thank you for creating an amazing son, for loving him, into being his best self.
56:18I want you to have a dad like you.
56:22If you ever want to talk.
56:25I'm here, Benjamin.
56:33Divine laws are simpler than human ones, which is why it takes a lifetime to be able to understand them.
56:41Only love can understand them.
56:46Only love can interpret these words as they were meant to be interpreted.
57:19So you are an amazing person.
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