10 Reasons Benjamin Sisko Is Star Trek's Greatest Ever Captain

10. He's Human

Before we get into the many heroic endeavors or nuanced character beats that make Benjamin Sisko Starfleet's finest commanding officer, let's take a quick look at the background of the man. As it's that, more than anything seen on the show itself, that sets him apart from his many peers.

James Kirk was a prodigy who achieved the rank of Captain quicker than anyone in the history of the Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard came from the supreme stock of Nobel Prize winners and explorers, Katherine Janeway the daughter of a Starfleet Admiral. In contrast to that, Benjamin Sisko arrived on Deep Space Nine the son of a chef, feeling at odds with Starfleet's objectives, a single father, and a still-grieving widow.

He carries trauma, he carries pain, he makes mistakes, he has regrets, he loses his cool, he is stubborn, he is, by the standards of a Starfleet C/O, astonishingly imperfect and endearingly human.