We never find out exactly what happens to Benny Russell beyond this point, as after the breakdown occurs, Captain Sisko wakes up. Back on Deep Space 9, it seems as if his experiences as Benny Russell were all just a fantasy.
Yes, we do. He ends up in an asylum. He is shown briefly while Sisko approaches the Orb of the Emissary.
Clearly if the architects had seen [any] [sci-fi] [ever] they would have come up with the idea to shunt that excess energy into ad-hoc shields for poor Ensign Redshirt.
Okay, I didn’t expect all of the examples to be from Stargate. But they certainly like that trope.
In a world of “humanoid/android/AI/chair/lawnmower explores what it means to be human” it was very refreshing to see “human raised as not-human explores what it means to be human.”
