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And, don't even get me started on the series before that, Deep Space 9, with its "angry pissed-off black man in space"

Damn! You sound like you think every "black man" on TV is angry and POed.

In fact you sound like some black guys who think every white guy is out to get them.

Oh, and currently Enterprise is the worst Star Trek of the five. It's stories are too drab and unexciting (might change though).
DS9 is the best. IMHO

Actually, I'm just having fun with Sisko. I thought it was funny when he got angry in various episodes, and funny having it as part of his personality. Then I read an interview with the actor somewhere where he expressed a lot of alienation from Star Trek, American society, etc., which made me emotionally distance myself from him. Therefore, since then, I've just thought of him in shorthand as "angry pissed-off black man in space" with a ship that doesn't go anywhere.

Oh, and currently Enterprise is the worst Star Trek of the five. It's stories are too drab and unexciting (might change though). DS9 is the best. IMHO

I tend to concur, overall it was the best of the group so far. Although I have to agree that Sisko did go "ABM" a lot......with Eddington, e.g., and in the reality-warp back to the Golden Age of Sci-Fi, when the ensemble appeared without their latex, and we got to see what Marc Alaimo and Armin Shimerman looked like without all the Michael Westmore physiognomic magic. That whole episode was full of grace touches -- I even liked the hat-tip to the screenwriters: "Commander Sisko sat at his desk and looked out the window...." Plus, the final episode was just great -- and everyone went to the wrap party in costume, which was filmed and rolled into the story line. I kept that one.

But the best episode of them all, bar none (IMHO) is from TNG: it's the time-loop conundrum, in which Kelsey Grammer guests in a cameo.