The Wormhole wrote:
... one man who commits criminal acts in the belief he's defending the Federation seems to spend an unusual time fixated on a space station located outside the Federation, following its commanding officer and security officer, infecting the security officer with a genocidal disease, trying to recruit its medical officer, and blackmailing the flag officer that the station's captain reports to....
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One man acting at the focal point of conflict is far easier to believe than a criminal conspiracy spread throughout the Federation. Remember what Ben Franklin said -
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Benjamin Franklin wrote:
Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.
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How does one keep a cabal larger than three secret for centuries? It's not possible.
Besides, Sloan fixating on DS9 is no harder to believe nor any more uncommon than a nigh-omnipotent being fixating on the senior staff of a
Galaxy-class ship until dropping them for the captain of an
Intrepid-class ship a few years later. For some reason, the crews that get TV shows end up attracting villains; I can't imagine
why....