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@RickiTarr
I've been saying it's the best Star Trek since it aired. Vindication!
Also, also! Sisko is the best captain because he was the worst. The rest were morally-pure custodians of enlightenment, educating the races with weird foreheads. Sisko started with prejudices about the Farengi, then questioned them, and learned real lessons from them. He tackled nasty questions about war and genocide.
@malin @RickiTarr I'm not sure I'd call any of the captains morally pure. Kirk was judgemental and prone to solving things with violence, Janeway was an authoritarian despot with a coffee addiction, and Picard... wasn't good with children? Okay, yeah, Picard may have been a bit too perfect.
I'd say the big difference between the other starship captains and Sisko is that his character begins as a damaged person who's placed in a very tenuous position and develops from there. It's a lot easier to be the high-minded diplomat when it's from a comfy chair in the ready room of one of the best-equipped ships in the fleet than it is from a clapped-out Cardassian space hulk full of people who want to worship you, manipulate you, or murder you depending on the exact political situation that morning.
@Vordus @RickiTarr
We know Kirk's violent, but at the time, he was cowboys in space, being a real man, doing what he knew was right.
Sisko didn't know if he should send his partner to prison, or let his son be an idiot, or kill that diplomat. Still, he's forced to choose, and then to smile diplomatically at Dukat.