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This portion of the script suggests that Sisko did indeed die...
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[Bajoran fire caves]
DUKAT:
Are you still here?
WINN:
Emissary, the book!
(Wraiths surround Winn and she bursts into flames.)
DUKAT:
Farewell, Adami.
(Sisko rugby-tackles Dukat and they both go over into the flames with the book. Sisko pushes Dukat below him, and the Kosst Amojan then Dukat burst into flames.)
[Limbo]
SISKO:
Sarah? Are you here? What happened?
SARAH:
The Emissary has completed his task.
SISKO:
But the Pah wraiths.
SARAH:
You've returned them to their prison within the fire caves.
SISKO:
The book was the key, wasn't it?
SARAH:
To a door that can never be opened again.
SISKO:
And Dukat? Is he dead?
SARAH:
He's where he belongs, with the Pah wraiths. Your time of trial has ended. You need to rest now.
SISKO: I intend to. As soon as I return to Deep Space Nine.
SARAH:
That won't be necessary. You're with us now.
[Wardroom]
EZRI:
We found the Captain's runabout orbiting Bajor.
WORF:
But when we scanned the fire caves, there was no sign of him.
BASHIR:
Tarkalian tea. Soothing.
EZRI:
Better keep it coming.
JAKE:
You're not calling off the search yet, are you?
ODO:
Not until we find your father.
JAKE:
What about the Kendra Province, where he bought that land. Maybe he went there for some reason.
WORF:
Colonel Kira and Chief O'Brien have completed another scan of the planet. As far as they can tell, he is not there.
KASIDY:
Something's happened to Ben. Something bad. I can feel it. The Prophets warned us.
[Limbo]
KASIDY:
Hello? Is anyone here? Ben? Is that you?
SISKO:
Kasidy.
KASIDY:
Oh, Ben! I've been so worried about you. Where are we?
SISKO:
The Celestial Temple.
KASIDY:
This is scaring me. Let's go home.
SISKO:
I can't. Not now.
KASIDY:
Why not? Oh, God. This is it, isn't it? The sorrow that the Prophets warned us about.
SISKO:
It's difficult to explain. It's not linear.
KASIDY:
What isn't?
SISKO:
My life, my destiny. The Prophets saved me, Kasidy. I'm their Emissary and they still have a great deal for me to do. But first, there is much to learn. Things only the Prophets can teach me.
KASIDY:
When will you be back?
SISKO:
It's hard to say. Maybe a year, maybe yesterday. But I will be back.
KASIDY: And I will be waiting.
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Sisko says he will be back. But he is evasive in his answer as to how he will be back. He says he will be back yesterday or a year from now. This suggests that he is going to visit her outside of her corporeal linear existence. Because there was no physical body or remains that was recovered from the fire caves because it was all burned up.
Now, sure. Can the prophets bring forth a miracle and make him flesh again? Yes, maybe they could do that. But we have never known them to do anything like that before, though. In fact, in the episode titled "Reckoning" we get the impression that the Prophets cannot bring someone back from the dead but only inhabit the bodies of others while they are alive.
Even Sarah the Prophet says to Sisko that his time has ended. Meaning that his task in his corporeal form has ended.
In addition, even Kasidy had a feeling that something bad has happened to Sisko, too. Meaning his physical body is now gone.
I mean, if Sisko wasn't dead, then why didn't he come back real quick in physical form to say goodbye to everyone?
The obvious answer is that he died and his spirit body and soul moved on to accomplish tasks that he could only do in spirit form with the Prophets (of which they specifically saved or called him to do so when his physical body was destroyed).
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If I could continue into the TNG era, so much the better.
