Yeah, early Sisko and especially Kira didn't worked well for me. Kira felt quite misinterpret and I personally had been ok with her getting cut out. But I guess this is also related to the decision of Michelle Forbes not to continue her Ro Laren character at DS9 and the producers had to adopt their ideas to the new character. The pilot was already written at the time Forbes declined, so the decision was really late in the process. That's likely why Kira felt so much off, as her character arc was just made up later as the others. Luckily they got a fantastic actress with Nana Visitor.
Sisko was also feeling off. I didn't like the arc of the single dad, but I really think what was off, was that Avery Brooks couldn't play Sisko as he would have liked to play him. This was most visible by him having short hair and no beard, a style Brooks feels definitely most good in it as he barely changed that look since the 80s - except he was forced to it. But the producers didn't want a Hawk (from his earlier show Spenser) in Space and told him to have this hair style like this. Imo you can notice quite a difference in his acting after he finally convinced them to do the change of style.
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