#sisko is maybe The Most Competent leader in all of star trek

[fabiansociety]

the quark/sisko relationship is underappreciated in ds9, because sisko clearly finds quark deeply, personally annoying, and quark finds sisko mildly intimidating, but neither of them really disrespects or dislikes the other, they just absolutely do not gel

and then every so often they'll get stuck together on a camping trip or something and sisko will start quoting the ferengi rules of acquisition and you'll remember that, oh, yeah, sisko is in fact Really Extremely Good At His Job and quark just gets even more spooked and it's a delight