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The inversion causes a malfunction in the Defiant 's warp drive a bolt of energy strikes Benjamin, causing him to vanish into subspace. When Jake was eighteen, his father Captain Benjamin Sisko took him on the USS Defiant to observe an inversion of the Bajoran Wormhole. Jake tells her his story, revealed as flashbacks in the episode. The elderly Jake Sisko ( Tony Todd) is visited by Melanie (Rachel Robinson), an aspiring writer, who is curious to learn why Jake gave up writing. It consistently ranks in polls as one of the most popular episodes of the entire series, often vying for first place with " In the Pale Moonlight" and " Trials and Tribble-ations", with one critic writing that the episode "sums up everything that made DS9 so unforgettable." The episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1996, but lost to Babylon 5 's " The Coming of Shadows". In this episode, an accident leaves Captain Benjamin Sisko frozen in time, leaving his son Jake with a lifelong obsession with rescuing his father, having his resolve tested when they briefly reunite every few decades.
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Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The episode was written by Michael Taylor and directed by David Livingston. " The Visitor" is the 75th episode of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the second episode of the fourth season. 2nd episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine " The Visitor"