a darker and more serious show than the other star treks
what I love so much about Deep Space Nine is that when it took the piss out of itself, it pulled out all the stops. The team’s name is embroidered on their uniforms in the font used for the show’s opening titles and logo.
And the baseball the team give Sisko at the end, that they’ve all signed? The cast all did sign that and created in-character signatures. Worf’s is just ‘WORF’ and Quark draws ears on his initial Q (although he does not make it into a little cat like Ramona Quimby).