Starfleet Academy's Deep Space Nine Homage Returns Series to Paramount+ Top Ten
Starfleet Academy’s episode "Series Acclimation Mil" leans into classic Deep Space Nine elements, earning strong reviews and pushing the series back into Paramount+’s streaming top ten. New episodes premiere weekly every Thursday. The story follows Series Acclimation Mil, or Sam (Kerrice Brooks), the Academy’s only holographic student, as she tries to learn what happened to Ben Sisko (Avery Brooks) after Deep Space Nine ended.
Set centuries later with few living witnesses, Sam is encouraged by her professor Illa (Tawny Newsome), who co-wrote the episode with Trek veteran Kirsten Beyer, and eventually finds help from the memory of Sisko’s son Jake (Cirroc Lofton, reprising his role) and a surprising voice from the past.
Sisko’s history informs the episode: a Starfleet veteran of the Battle of Wolf 359 who lost his wife Jennifer to the Borg led by an assimilated Jean-Luc Picard, he relocated to Deep Space Nine with his son.