Avery Brook's acting?

I think he's fine when he's understated or contemplative. When he's giving orders or being overly emotive, his staccato style speech delivery is often unbearable.

You can't possibly be serious? His acting is actually terrible, it's really terrible, Such ATROCIOUS delivery in most of his lines.

The only exceptional acting is his overly melodramatic (but understandably so) racism episode when he wrote the newspaper.

He's a genuinely terrible actor in this show, but I perservere regardless.

His acting was hammy as shit.

But it worked for the character.

Sisko is the only Star Trek Captain I care about. A lot has to do with his stellar acting.

His best performance in the show was in the episode “Far Beyond the Stars”.

If given the right script, I think he could win an Oscar.

Just look at his performance in “American History X”.

My dad often joked about that. Sometimes it works for him, sometimes it's just really over-the-top. In fact, the actor inspired dad to joke about other actors on Star Trek shows that joined the "Avery Brook's School of Severe Overacting."

Disliked Sisko from the start. His acting turned me off big time. I quit DS9 near the end of S1 and it took me years before I came back. Even then, I never watched the last episodes. I really ended up loving most of the characters (most) but again, I grew too tired of Sisko to stick with it. And I watched all of voyager! That tells you my opinion of Sisko better than anything. I was less put off by Neelix's holographic lungs than by him.

I've heard this before. His acting was perfectly fine. Some people just didn't like his somewhat "Shakespearean" style delivery at times. I don't think the Shatner comparisons are at all fair.

Brooks' performance is far from terrible. However there are moments in DS9 where Sisko absolutely flips out in scenes where there was no need for it...Like some malfunctioning thespian android.

A wonderfully written character nonetheless. A total badass Captain.