Emissary: Commander Sisko and Captain Picard's First Meeting

[AdrianCoyote]

Bitch Sisko didn't even drink Picard's tea....you never deny a frenchman a serving of tea!

[ensbergur99]

Boom! Zinf? Pow!!

[Mack488]

0:24 "Oh shit..."

Most awkward moment in all of Star Trek.

[Renagade2332]

@Mack488 You can tell by Picard's face he's thinking. "Oh here we fucking go again!"

[danielk6761]

Well, his orders were to bring Bajor into the Federation, short of violating the Prime Directive.

As of the series finale, he has not brought Bajor into the Federation. Now his body's dead, and his spirit has ascended like Jesus. Mission failed.

But even though Sisko's mission failed, it failed in order to save Bajor. So Sisko f'ked it up for a good reason.

[scottythegreat1]

The irony about DS9 is that Bajor never joined the Federation even though thats what the series was really about.

[danielk6761]

@scottythegreat1 They almost joined the Federation that one episode. Sisko f'ed it up, of course.

"I've come to know the Bajorans..." - Capt. Picard

"Not as much as me, b**ch" - Capt. Sisko, Season 7.

[Spiderblade]

@danielk6761 Sisko didn't mess it up. He stopped them from joining because of the vision he had of their destruction.

[danielk6761]

@Spiderblade Yeah, I know. He still f*ked up their entrance into the Federation, even if it was a good thing for the Bajorans after all.

[Spiderblade]

@danielk6761 Isn't that a bit of an extreme way to look at this. What he did was more in line with being called a necessary delay. Let's say you were part of starfleet making a similar decision, would you think you f*ked up by saving a planet.

[horaciosi]

(0:24-0:31)......akward

[Roadracer987654321]

I Remember when Deep Space Nine and this Scene Premiered in my area on January 18th, 1993. My Goodness, Was that 19 Years ago ? Where, oh Where has all the Time and teh Adventures Gone ? i Miss all our Old frines on televsion who were New to us back then. They too are as Endearing as the Original Cast.

[ShadowSonic2]

I think folks are kind of missing the point that Sisko's anger was supposed to be irrational, and that by the end of the episode he realized what a jerk he'd been to Picard and that they were both victims of the Borg. Picard certainly didn't hold it against him and likely has run into plenty of folks who are PO'ed at him.

[StargateMunky]

sisko has never been rational he makes basebal jokes during battle

[wildhorse1986]

It was simply a case of irrational anger given the fact he was still going through the grieving. If you were in his position you would have been bitter towards him too.

[KeySomniorum]

The fact that Sisko forgave Picard and confronted his own demons gained my respect. I really love Picard and he didn't deserve Sisko's blame. But Sisko showed that he was a good man capable of forgiveness and an open-mind and one who could acknowledge his mistakes. I think they developed him really well as a character.

[genericusername337]

@KeySomniorum yeah Sisko was great but it was still more than Picard deserved just for the simple fact that he was Picard

[mad4you1000]

picard was merely a vessel sisko!c'mon weren't you briefed on the situation?

[cap7707]

This pilot could not have been better. Sisko having conflict with Picard was a great segue way into creating a new series. Nobody talks to Picard like Sisko does in this scene.

[mad4you1000]

@cap7707 true.even q wouldnt do that,at least in a serious way.

[CptSchmidt]

Ah, classic Sisko... self-serving, immature, and ignorant. The worst captain of all the series.

[maxpower789z]

@CptSchmidt and by that rationale, the most human

[BerlinOHS]

@maxpower789z That's why I like Sisko his growth is much more wide open and also he has a son to protect.

[maxpower789z]

@BerlinOHS indeed...great scene between two great actors

[LamonicBomb]

@CptSchmidt fool. he just met the man who, intentionly or not, helped the borg kill his wife along with thousands more. when YOU have to site across from the table from the man who took the thing you love most from you, and can do it with a smile THEN you can talk, junior. he's angry; and has every damn right to be. plus sisko rocks. who else punched Q in the face and wasn't atomized for it?

[CptSchmidt]

@LamonicBomb Yeah, I don't think so. Nice try, though. Picard didn't do anything to Sisko's wife because he had no control over himself; he was assimilated, smart one. Any mature adult would have realised that and would not have held that against him. And anyway, Sisko realised that he was an idiot and unfair to Picard and made amends by the end of the episode. He's infantile. There's little wonder as to why DS9 did the worst of the series, excluding ENT that is.

[LamonicBomb]

@CptSchmidt spoken like a child who has learned nothing; if someone ACCIDENTLY shot your wife in the head and killed her, you KNOW you would not be like 'oh, well, shit happens'. it's called LIFE, kiddie and i can tell you know nothing about it. and you're wrong; picard may not have been under his own control but that doesnt negate that HE was INSTRUMENTAL in the massacre at Wolf359, no matter how you slice it. yes he was childish. but humans are sometimes. why can't you grasp that?

[CptSchmidt]

@LamonicBomb I don't think you understand what assimilation means. The Borg killed Sisko's wife in the same way that the Borg assimilated thousands with 7 of 9. Neither Picard nor 7 had any control whatsoever over themselves. It was not Picard, it was the Borg using his body and mind - that's it, that's all. A sensible person, i.e. not Sisko, would have known that.

[LamonicBomb]

@CptSchmidt i so totally do. now do you comprehend personall responsibilty? a real person would not hide behind the LAME excuse of 'i was under borg control!' to dodge the guilt of their crime. how utterly silly and purile of you to even attempt to imply such. its not about who controlled whom; its about owning up to your part in a henious act. a sensible and HONEST person would grasp that. i guess that's not a class you are aming. your comments...disgust me. please stop replying. you're sad.

[CptSchmidt]

@LamonicBomb You're still not getting it. Playing fanfare on personal responsibility and shouting and insult won't get your point across, nor does it change what assimilation is. I agree that people are responsible for their actions, but they have no control over themselves... Picard was kidnapped when the Borg cut through the shields,and beamed him to the Cube. The Borg, using Picard, conducted Wolf 359. How can you hold him responsible when, basically, his knowledge was drained and used?

[CptSchmidt]

@LamonicBomb A "sensible" and "honest" person understands that being assimilated means being robbed of who you are. "Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own." They have no choice, no say. Resistance really is futile. Your thoughts become one with the Collective and can be accessed by every single Borg. You can't hold a man responsible for that.

It's not childish at all. Knowledge is power. It's easy to say it was his fault, but it's also naive and ignorant.

[CptSchmidt]

@LamonicBomb And another thing: saying that Picard "accidentally" did what he did is wrong, because accident implies responsibility or that it could have prevented had he done something else. There was no warning when Picard was assimilated - he didn't even have the chance to kill himself.

What's funny is that by the end of Emissary, even Sisko forgave Picard for the reasons I've already told you. Seems like you're the only one stuck in the past.

[AgentStark427]

@LamonicBomb Dear LamonicBomb, your logic is that of the worse kind. You're ideals are incomplete or wrong and you fail to fully understand a situation. You lack cohesion and balance as well as indifference. You are not fit to judge people who are in circumstances beyond their control.

Captain Picard was in a circumstance beyond his control. He lost 1. accountability and 2. the ability to choose. I feel sorry for BOTH Sisko and Picard because they lost things from the Borg.

[CptSchmidt]

@LamonicBomb And who's more childish? The one getting offensive and personal because a total stranger doesn't like a lame fictional character or the one saying he doesn't like a lame fictional character? I know nothing about "life" because I don't like Sisko, or is it because I don't hold people responsible for actions they didn't commit? Really? I pity you.

[LamonicBomb]

@CptSchmidt LOL captain picard didn't commit those actions? so...then you're saying it was another captain of the entreprise who was abducted and assimilated and became locutus of borg? dude possessed or not we are ALWAYS accountable for our actions. i call you a child for not knowing that basic fact of life. pity yourself. because along with a great deal of maturity, you so desperately need it. your 'logic' is just silly. and i didn't diss you; i just called you and your silly comment out. bye.