not a new thought c.f. the Eddington post and the Gul Duqat Work post but it’s so incredible that all through ds9 villains and baddies of various sorts long to be Sisko’s nemesis and he resists completely and is like “I don’t think about you at all” and then the VERY LAST SEASON we find out that he’s still hung up on his rivalry with some Vulcan he went to college with and once had a drunken and wildly unmatched wrestling match with. I love him so much