As Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) was one of Star Trek's most complex Captains, he has numerous best DS9 episodes to choose from. Sisko was a single father to Jake (Cirroc Lofton), a widower, a Starfleet officer, and a religious figure and many of his episodes centered around the clash between these aspects of his character. As DS9's Dominion War arc gathered steam, Sisko demonstrated the ways in which he was a very different Star Trek Captain from his predecessors.
Like Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Sisko was a maverick who would bend the rules to save lives. On occasion, Sisko would go much further than merely bending the rules, but he was always able to justify his actions in the context of the greater good. Sisko's flexible approach to Star Trek's Prime Directive emphasized his differences from Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Picard and Sisko never resolved their differences, but Sisko went on to prove that Picard's rigid adherence to the Prime Directive was not always in the best interests of the Federation. Here are 10 of the best Captain Sisko episodes across the seven seasons of DS9.
