Star Trek: The Next Generation
Summary
senior pilot Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) may be theStar Trekcharacter most relate with baseball , but aStar Trek : The Next Generationguest star share his love of baseball game first . Although Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) prefer fencing , TNGintroduced several imagined futurist game , such as Parrises Squares . Despite this , many classical play of today also remained popular in the 24th century , including tennis , racquetball , and various forms of martial Arts . baseball game , in particular , has a substantial connecter toStar Trek , largely because ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine’sCaptain Sisko .
InStar Trek ’s timeline , baseball game began worsen in popularity until the final World Series was played in 2042 , and the sport was moot somewhat obscure by the twenty-fourth C . Still , baseball had its fans . InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 3 , episode 1 , " Evolution,“an astrophysicist appoint Dr. Paul Stubbs ( Ken Jenkins ) visit the USS Enterprise - D to conduct an experimentation involving a starring explosion . Stubbs see something of himself in Ensign Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) , and the two have a conversation where Stubbs brings up his love of baseball game , come to to it as"the beloved internal interest of the Americas . "
" Evolution " was the firstStar Trekepisode written by Michael Piller , who would later serve as showrunner for bothTNGandDS9.It was Piller who was responsible for for get both Dr. Stubbs and Captain Sisko baseball sports fan .
TNG ’s holographic Professor James Moriarty foil Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s first ever baseball game instalment , but it was for the best that he did .
A Star Trek TNG Guest Star Loved Baseball Before Captain Sisko
“Once, centuries ago, it was the beloved national pastime of the Americas.”
ThroughoutStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 3 , episode 1 , the USS Enterprise - D begins experience organization failure that eventually causeCaptain Jean - Luc Picardto put a pause on Stubbs ' experimentation . Considering the astral blowup Stubbs wishes to canvas only occurs once every 196 yr , he will not have another chance to conduct the experimentation during his lifespan . Stubbs has placed all of his self - worth in this experiment , and Wesley Crusher tries to inspire him up when it looks like the experimentation wo n’t happen . William Stubbs laments that he will miss his"one chance at bat,“before he turns to Wesley to ask if the young Ensign eff about baseball .
Wesley replies that his father taught it to him and expect whether Stubbs recreates iconic baseball game game on the holodeck . Stubbs says that he has statistics from legion game memorized and that he replay them in his head . by and by , in his quarter , Stubbs mentally reconstructs the terminal secret plan of the 1951 National League link - breaker serial between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants . His imaginings are disrupt when he is attacked by the nanites that have been causing the Enterprise to malfunction . He ’s not the most appealing of part , butStubbs ' love of baseball install an enduring connection betweenStar Trekand the dear American athletics .
Captain Sisko’s Love Of Baseball Became An Important Element Of His Character
“Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game.”
Captain Benjamin Sisko ’s making love of baseball game is established in the series premier ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . Not only can his Logos , Jake ( Cirroc Lofton ) , be seen wearing a baseball game glove , butSisko also use the sport as a metaphor to explicate linear time to the Bajoran Prophets . Sisko explains that the baseball game"wouldn’t be deserving playing"if he already bang the outcome , just as humankind spend their lives search and searching without knowing their future . Sisko always keep a baseball on his desk on DS9 , which became an important symbol when the Dominion temporarily gained control of the station .
Captain Sisko famously kept a baseball game in his office on Deep Space Nine .
InDS9season 7 , instalment 4 , " Take Me Out to the Holosuite , " Captain Sisko and his DS9 crew are challenged to a baseball game by the Vulcan gang of the T’Kumbra . Although the Vulcan Logicians beat Sisko ’s Niners by nine runs , Sisko and his squad observe their teamwork and their one footrace . DS9 ’s lightsome baseball outing offer a nice severance from the darkerDominion War storylineand highlights the camaraderie and decision of the characters . Sisko ’s love of baseball led to some sincerely great moments onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , but it may not have happened without Dr. Stubbs ' shoutout to the sport onStar Trek : The Next Generation .
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