Hey, the only thing DS9 showed me that a black man has no place in this mans Federation since the best he can hope for is becomming administrator of some far-flung outpost and captain of a ship which appears to be the spacefaring equivalent of a Vietnam era PBR patrol boat compared to the Enterprise or Voyager.
Been brooding on this for awhile?
If you think DS9 is some unimportant backwater assignment and that the Defiant is a PT Boat(?!) then you have obviously didn’t watch or rather, pay attention to, the show often, if at all.