Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review Kasida Yates-Sisko, a recurring character from the latter few seasons of Deep Space 9.
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Kasidy Yates is initially introduced to Commander Ben Sisko by his son Jake, as Jake thought his dad needed romantic companionship. The romance heated up quickly, with Kasidy sharing Ben's love of baseball and moving her freighter captain role to work for the Bajorans so that she could stay close to Ben permanently. As an independent civilian and freighter captain, she's a highly motivated and confident character that makes for a perfect foil to the likes of Commander Sisko.
The romance has a hiccup caused by the episode For The Cause, where Kasidy is hoodwinked into smuggling multiple loads of cargo to the Maquis. She takes full responsibility for the actions of her crew, who rejoin the Maquis while she goes off to a prison sentence. But that prison sentence ends a year later, and Ben Sisko clearly doesn't mind what happened or the brief interruption as shown by their warm greeting in her initial return in the episode Rapture.
Yates then temporarily serves as a convoy liaison officer aboard the Defiant, but she's not a big fan of all the Starfleet paperwork. Some of the dialogue from this episode, The Sound of Her Voice, shows how close Sisko and Yates had become, as they know each other like a married couple.
QUOTE (from The Sound of Her Voice):
Kasidy Yates: [about Bashir, who is sparing with words] There was a time when you couldn't get him to shut up.
Captain Sisko: I think I like him better this way.
Kasidy Yates: That's mean.
Captain Sisko: I was just kidding.
Kasidy Yates: No - you weren't.
In the final few episodes of the show, when character development and relationships raced ahead as fast as the Dominion War conclusions, Sisko proposes to Yates and they get married. They end up getting pregnant a few episodes later, as Sisko apparently forgot to renew his contraception injection on time...yes folks, the pill is a guy thing in the 2300's. The future of Yates and her unborn child is left as a loose end in the finale, with Sisko joining the Prophets in the Celestial Temple and vowing to return someday.
Kasidy Yates-Sisko was played by Penny Johnson, who has had many major roles on TV series of the last 25 years, including on Castle, the Larry Sanders Show, and 24. (Insert 24 noise) She is also now back in the sci fi mainstream as Dr. Claire Finn on The Orville, which would basically be the closest thing to Star Trek if we didn't also have Discovery.
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