A racist plain-clothes police detective in Benny Russell's New York, who with his partner harasses Benny in the street and later beats him savagely after shooting a young man dead.
Burt Ryan appears in Far Beyond the Stars, played by Marc Alaimo, who usually plays Gul Dukat.
In the vision that Benjamin Sisko experiences in 2374, he lives as Benny Russell, a science fiction writer in the New York of 1953. Ryan and his partner Kevin Mulkahey first stop Benny as he picks up a drawing blown from his hand, treating a well-dressed black man near a magazine office as an obvious suspect.
Later the two detectives shoot Jimmy, a young hustler Benny knows, claiming he was breaking into a car. When Benny protests, Ryan and Mulkahey beat him so badly that he needs weeks to recover. The pair embody the casual violence that stands between Benny and the future he has imagined in his story of Deep Space Nine.