Summary

• The author discusses the challenges of writing Sisko's autobiography and the pressure to do justice to the character and the show's legacy.
• The author explains how he channeled Avery Brooks' voice to capture Sisko's distinctive cadence and mannerisms.
• The author discusses the process of incorporating Sisko's dense mythology and exploring his family and past, while also making a commentary about the 24th century and New Orleans.

Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) became one with the Prophets at the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but he returns to recount his own life story in The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko by Derek Tyler Attico.
A science fiction essayist, and photographer, Derek Tyler Attico is a winner of the Excellence in Playwriting Award from the Dramatist Guild of America and a two-time winner of the Star Trek Strange New Worlds short story contest. Attico's work, "The Dreamer and the Dream," based upon the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine classic "Far Beyond the Stars" led to Titan Books choosing him to pen Captain Sisko's autobiography.

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