Jake Sisko - Completely Unlikeable

[spinagogue]

Post-season 3, I found Jake Sisko outstandingly annoying and rather unlikeable as a human being. To the point that it almost defies belief that Captain Sisko, caring as he was, wouldn't have disowned him as a son. (Ok, that's hyperbole.)

Some characters are meant to be unlikeable, of course. But I don't the writers intended Jake to be such a twerp. I hate to say this too, but he couldn't have been so unlikeable without Cirroc Lofton being a bona fide terrible actor too.

I love DS9. Have watched the whole series probably 5 times.

Anyone else despise Jake Sisko? :-)

SPIN

 

[GulBahana]

I thought it was good he had some rebellious qualities like many teens do. He even wanted to stay on the station when the Dominion took over.

 

[Michael]

Always loved Jake.

 

[Danoz]

Post-season 3, I found Jake Sisko outstandingly annoying and rather unlikeable as a human being. To the point that it almost defies belief that Captain Sisko, caring as he was, wouldn't have disowned him as a son. (Ok, that's hyperbole.)

Some characters are meant to be unlikeable, of course. But I don't the writers intended Jake to be such a twerp. I hate to say this too, but he couldn't have been so unlikeable without Cirroc Lofton being a bona fide terrible actor too.

I love DS9. Have watched the whole series probably 5 times.

Anyone else despise Jake Sisko? :-)

SPIN

So I liked him. It would've been easy to write the character as a strong, confident, mini-Sisko ready to walk in Dad's Starfleet Command footsteps.

Instead, he's complex. He makes mistakes. He's smart, and yes -- fairly dramatic and annoying, but he's a real character. And he commands his father's love and respect regardless of his path, which makes the Sisko character better, as a result.

So do I like Jake Sisko? Not particularly. Do I like his character and place in the show? His character development? Definitely.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

He was much less annoying to me than that Crusher kid.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

He was much less annoying to me than that Crusher kid.

He was less annoying than Harry Kim and Tom Paris by a lot.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't see what's so unlikable about Jake. He was genuinely friendly and outgoing, and always meant well.

Unlike Wesley, Jake was not an annoying holier-than-thou arrogant jackass.

 

[DonIago]

If someone didn't like Jake, I can only imagine what they'd think of Wesley...

 

[kkt]

Jake seemed to me like a real teen, with goals of his own that weren't necessarily emulating Dad. He made mistakes, overestimated himself, and learned things.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Jake was a good solid character and a good son.

 

[donners22]

He was absolutely awful in Valiant, but aside from that I never had an issue with him. That was just a horribly-written episode.

 

[Tosk]

I liked him just fine. Some people just don't like some characters, it happens.

 

[Michael]

He was absolutely awful in Valiant, but aside from that I never had an issue with him. That was just a horribly-written episode.

Maybe I'm misremembering the episode, but wasn't Jake the voice of reason in “Valiant” and Nog the one with questionable motives?

 

[Paradise City]

I found him annoying in the first season. I don't mean by that he was badly written or anything, it's just that I usually find kids drama to be annoying.

But the character development was good and he was worthy in his role as war correspondent. I think ultimately though he lost out towards the end of the run because writers had too many loose ends to tidy up. .

 

[tomalak301]

i thought Jake was the most realistic kid character in star trek.

 

[Sakonna]

I'm a Jake fan, I like how he's always a bit of a fuck-up. Even though I wanted to see him slightly more than we did, I thought it helped that they used him REALLY sparingly. Fun Memory Alpha trivia: Jake is only in 71 of 173 DS9 episodes. Morn is in 92 episodes.

Plus two series highlights are Jake episodes: "The Visitor" and "In The Cards."

 

[kkt]

And much, much less annoying than Wesley.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Always loved Jake.

Thank you. One of the best characters on the show.

 

[Iamnotspock]

I'm a Jake fan, I like how he's always a bit of a fuck-up. Even though I wanted to see him slightly more than we did, I thought it helped that they used him REALLY sparingly. Fun Memory Alpha trivia: Jake is only in 71 of 173 DS9 episodes.

On that note, does anyone know why that was? What was the deal with Cirroc Lofton's contract? How was he ostensibly a regular despite appearing in less than half the series?

 

[Paradise City]

He's like Andrew Robinson, not a full on regular. They had a large cast of regular actors and yet they still managed to give even semi-regular actors a presence so powerful, that even today we're amazed that they weren't full time.