I agree. I've been an Avery Brooks fan since "Spenser For Hire."
I liked DS9. There were some corny episodes but I loved the Ferengi and ... the baseball episode was great, I think I still have it on tape and there was an episode about war that was very moving.
DS9 had the virtues of a grimy, lived in look, with moral equivocations and many episodes leading to messy conclusions. Kinda like the Clinton era that the show originally ran in and like most of our futures.