A mild-mannered writer at Incredible Tales who suggests framing Benny Russell's story as a dream so it can be published.
Albert Macklin is one of the writers at Incredible Tales in Far Beyond the Stars, the vision of 1953 New York in which Benjamin Sisko lives as Benny Russell. He is played by Colm Meaney, mirroring Miles O'Brien, and he is the quietest of the writers.
When the editor Douglas Pabst refuses Benny's story, Macklin proposes the compromise of presenting it as a dream, which Pabst reluctantly accepts before the publisher pulps the issue anyway.