[ID: 13 gifs from season 3, episode 22 “explorers” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show benjamin sisko and jake sisko in the replica of an eight hundred-year-old bajoran spaceship benjamin sisko has built.
1st, 2nd gif: benjamin is seated and facing jake, he tells him, “now, remember, jake. i wasn’t much older than you when i left for san francisco to go to starfleet academy.”
3rd gif: the camera cuts to show jake, who is laying down on a hammock with his hands crossed behind his head. he is looking away from his dad as benjamin continues, “for the first few days, i was so homesick,”
4th 5th, 6th gif: benjamin smiles as he recalls the past, “that i’d go back to my house in new orleans every night for dinner. i’d materialize in my living room at 6:30 every night and take my seat at the table, just like i had come downstairs.”
7th gif: jake is slightly swinging in the hammock, he is looking at his dad as he says, “you must have used up a month’s worth of transporter credits.”
8th, 9th gif: benjamin recalls more of the past, “my parents, they never said anything about it. just “how you doing, son? how was school today?” they knew that i would get over being homesick soon enough.”
10th gif: jake is listening attentively to his dad, “well, after about the fifth, sixth day, you couldn’t pry me from that campus.”
11th, 12th gif: “of course now, if you go to pennington, you won’t be able to beam back to the station to have dinner with your old man. after about a week or so, you’ll get over it.” benjamin tells jake and gets up from his seat.
13th gif: the camera cuts back to jake, benjamin touches his face before walking away. jake frowns before he starts to get up in the hammock. /end ID]
