Sisko leaving...what BS.

[Therin of Andor]

(Although I agree he should have had a moment with Jake...)

And yet that scene of Kira and Jake, in the spot where Jake and Nog used to hang out as kids, was also just as powerful.

 

[InklingStar]

(Although I agree he should have had a moment with Jake...)

And yet that scene of Kira and Jake, in the spot where Jake and Nog used to hang out as kids, was also just as powerful.

I definitely agree. I also like how it mirrors a similar shot from The Visitor, where Kira comforts Jake after his dad's disappearance there.

 

[Phily B]

I thought it was silly, and doubly so because of the non-linear nature of the temple. He could've returned a day later.

 

[Mr. Scott]

I hated the Sisko ending also, because he had a new wife and a baby.

The Prophets were annoying. "You are the Sisko." "You are from Bajor." "He is caporeal" and all the other goofy things that they said, without revealing themselves and really not making a whole lot of sense. I would not leave my wife and children to be with those cornball aliens. However, the Prophets did save Sisko's life and the life of the Federation, so there is some gratitude coming.

Rom being the Grand Nagus was another epic fail. When the writers end a Trek series, they pound the glasses down and smoke of all smells are thick in the air with occasional telepathic communication with Gene Roddenberry. Then they write the script by a ouija board and automatic handwriting.

 

[Navaros]

When he argues with the Prophets in Sacrifice of Angels, he wins - they destroy the Dominion fleet - but it comes at a price, a penance must be exacted.

The show does not make the link between the Sisko's penance as described in Season 6, and him joining the Prophets. Rather, the show leaves the penance angle as a plothole which gets dropped like a hot potato in the first third of Season 6, never to be picked up again in the series, and never to receive closure.

As the show is presented, the Sisko joins and stays with the Prophets for no narratively-motivated reason whatsoever.

Moses could not enter the Promised Land because he died. That makes logical sense. The Sisko did not die, so he does not stay on DS9, why, exactly? He's free to go back, so why doesn't he? There is no answer that make sense, because any answer that a fan comes up with is not presented within the narrative content of the show.

She had no qualms leaving him for weeks at a time, even when her life was in danger. Their relationship survived her time in jail.

Just because you're a family doesn't mean that you're there every second, and that would be the case without this since they both had jobs on ships that took them away a lot.

True, families are not always together, but that is because they have good reasons for being apart. The difference of your example, and the Sisko abandoning his family, is that the Sisko has no reason to abandon his family, much less a good reason.