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

6. He Has Absolutely Zero Time For Your Bulls**t

Very much in the same vein of Sisko never being too Starfleet, that dedication to reason and duty that defined both Janeway and Picard always came secondary to his emotional drive. In short, he would act decisively without agonizing too much about whether or not it was the "right" thing to do or, to put that in more Star Trek terms, there are no scenes of him staring pensively out of a window.

Where Picard would have become embroiled in some war of words with Q, Sisko just punched him in the face and was never bothered by him again. Where Janeway attempted to integrate the Marquis into her own crew so they could all do things "The Starfleet way", Sisko poisoned their planets to have one of their leader's surrender to him.

Where literally any normal person would have just kept their head down after falling back in time to a series of culturally vital civil rights riots, or told the crazed, hallucinating Cardassian with a gun he wasn't actually responsible for genocide, Sisko reached deep into his pockets and pulled out his own middle finger with the words 'This Is How It Is, Son' tattooed up the middle.

I mean, the man once told Quark if he caught him so much as littering he would personally nail him to a wall, so...

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