Jennifer Sisko Jennifer Sisko was the first wife of Starfleet Captain Benjamin Sisko . History . Jennifer met Ben on Gilgo Beach in 2354 , the day after attending a party at her friend ' s place . They were married soon after . Later that year , Jennifer and Benjamin attended the Mazurka Festival on New Berlin with Cal and Gretchen Hudson . ( ) Jennifer and Benjamin planned to have a child and their son Jake was born in 2355 . ( ) Prior to 2367 , the Sisko family made a camping trip to Itamish III , where Jake learned water skiing . While on a camping trip on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant in 2370 , Jake recalled this vacation as the happiest time he and his parents had had together . ( ) Jennifer and Jake accompanied Ben on his assignment to the , where she was killed when that ship was destroyed by the Borg at the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367 . Jennifer ' s death devastated Ben and it was years before he began to move on emotionally . In fact , his bitterness and anger over her death , specifically toward Captain Jean - Luc Picard , whom the Borg assimilated and forced to lead their invasion of Earth as Locutus , almost led him to resign his Starfleet commission , before he accepted that he was trying to escape his memories of Jennifer ' s death rather than Starfleet itself . ( ) Jennifer ' s image was later used in a vision projected to Ben by the Prophet s in 2369 . ( ) Jake mentioned the death of his mother when he and Nog talked to the Bajoran Varis Sul . ( ) Jennifer ' s death haunted Ben for years . He had trouble sleeping around the fourth anniversary of her death . Shortly after , he met Fenna , who he told Jadzia Dax was the first person he ' d " felt really drawn to " since Jennifer ' s death . ( ) When Ben began dating Kasidy Yates he was initially uncomfortable being with her , as it was his job that got Jennifer killed and he did not want the same to happen to her . ( ) One of the ideas Jake had for " Anslem " was to make it semi - autobiographical , with the main character ' s mother dying . ( ) " In an alternate timeline in which Benjamin Sisko suffered temporal displacement , Melanie read an autobiography of Jake that mentioned his mother ' s death . " ( ) Appendices . Background information . Jennifer Sisko was played by actress Felecia M . Bell . According to the and , Jennifer Sisko was a Federation scientist . In the of " Emissary " , Jennifer Sisko was a member of Starfleet with the rank of Lieutenant , a fact that was never established in the series . In " Voyages of Imagination " , Robert Simpson notes that he and Marco Palmieri pitched a story to the DS9 writers that featured the return of Jennifer Sisko . Their idea was to have it revealed Jennifer was taken from the " Saratoga " by the Borg and assimilated . Benjamin Sisko would then encounter her . The pitch never sold , although Simpson later used the idea in the novel " Lesser Evil " for the wife of DS9 ' s new XO Elias Vaughn . Apocrypha . The " " novel " The Good That Men Do " states that Jennifer Sisko became the namesake for Jake Sisko ' s first child with his Bajoran wife Azeni Korena . The novel " The Needs of the Many " gave her the middle name " Felecia " .