The Delta Flyers now covering DS9

[Bad Thoughts]

Armin would have spent 40 minutes complaining that both Bashir and Kira should never, ever have left the station at all, let alone for over a week's time.

Thinking about it, Bashir was implicitly there to be a health official for the sector, not just the station's doctor. In the very first episode, he quips about frontier medicine or his research on Bajoran health issues.