Just finished the book, and I wanted to call out one decision that struck me as peculiar. In "Emissary," the scene of Ben meeting Jennifer is present-day Ben finding himself shocked at being back in time (apparently), and then just going with the flow and bluffing his way past his initial confusion so he could enjoy reliving the experience. The autobiography shows that as being what actually happened, except for one line where Sisko explicitly says "I have returned to an earlier moment in my life, every detail is exactly as it was, and I am overcome by this." It's a very strange read on the scene, and I'd almost wonder if it was some kind of late-stage note from Paramount that the scene had to match the one we saw in the show, if it weren't for the amount of set-up that went into creating a character called George, who threw a party, and setting up a near-miss so Ben could know Jennifer's name without actually meeting her. Plus, I feel like this concept robs the episode of some of its pathos, with Ben's lines about being sure Jen's mother will love him, and that he'd never before and would never again say a woman he just met was the person he was going to marry being recontextualized into smitten, cocksure flirting and not future-Ben already knowing that they're going to hit it off and being so happy at seeing his wife again he's not able to contain himself.
