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They knew going in that this was almost certainly their last season, though, and probably figured that it didn't make sense to create a completely new character whom the audience might see as stealing screen time from the 23 established regular/recurring characters that they already cared about...

I think it shows just how good Ira Behr & company were, and how details really do matter. I remember a bit when TNG was starting, Roddenberry was being interviewed about the new villains, and his description was "we want motivated heavies. The Ferengi do what they do because they're extremely...

That only applies if the next film would be taking up the DS9 plot threads. If it's just setting things fifty years (or whatever) later, I don't think there's any real benefit to that.

The really ironic thing is that if you read the press when DS9 first started, Berman and Piller were talking about how they intended to give it and TNG separate identities - with TNG being the more cerebral show, and DS9 being the action-oriented one. "If Star Trek was a 'Wagon Train to the...