A Starfleet admiral sent to Deep Space 9 for the signing of Bajor's entry into the Federation, who grows alarmed as Sisko's visions lead him to urge the Bajorans to wait.
Admiral Charlie Whatley appears in Rapture, played by Ernest Perry Jr.
In 2373 he arrives on Deep Space 9 to preside over the ceremony admitting Bajor to the Federation, the goal Sisko was assigned to achieve years earlier. He finds the captain consumed by visions that followed an accident in a holosuite and the discovery of the lost city of B'hala. Whatley is sympathetic but worried, and presses Sisko to accept treatment and to remember that he is a Starfleet officer before he is the Emissary.
Sisko unsettles him by speaking with insight about the admiral's strained relationship with his son Kevin. When Sisko interrupts the signing to warn that Bajor must stand alone, Whatley is left to report the collapse of the admission to Starfleet.