> Perhaps I have selective memory, but I
>don't think that black/white stuff was really on people's
>minds at all in Star Trek that far in the future.
>

It's Star Trek, my dude. Everyone in the Star Trek universe has perfect knowledge of 20th/21st century Earth history.

>And that's super wack of Sisko to pull that out as a Star
>Fleet commander.

Eh, he didn't want to help a holodeck program. The whole station banding together over it was crazy to me to begin with.