List of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters

This is a list of characters from the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Only characters who played a significant major role in the series are listed. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was a science fiction television show of the Star Trek franchise that aired between 1993 and 1999. Many of the characters appear in other programs and films comprising the wider Star Trek science fiction universe. Main characters Benjamin Sisko Benjamin Sisko (played by Avery Brooks) is the Starfleet officer placed in charge of Deep Space Nine, a formerly Cardassian space station orbiting Bajor. The Bajorans, having liberated themselves from a long, brutal Cardassian occupation of their planet, invite the Federation to jointly administer the station. Sisko and Jadzia Dax accidentally discover nearby the first known stable wormhole, which not only provides two-way quick access to the previously distant, unexplored Gamma Quadrant, but is also considered by the Bajorans to be the home of their gods, the Prophets ("Emissary"). These two factors greatly magnify the station's importance. The Bajorans consider him the most recent Emissary of the Prophets, which gives him enormous prestig