A Starfleet admiral who tells Benjamin Sisko in the second-season episode The Circle that the Prime Directive requires Starfleet to withdraw from Deep Space 9 during Bajor's internal coup.
Admiral Chekote is a Starfleet flag officer seen in the second-season episode The Circle, the middle part of the three-episode story that opens that season. A Bajoran extremist movement backed by Minister Jaro Essa is moving to seize power and expel all outsiders, and its forces are approaching the station.
Benjamin Sisko reports to Chekote that the Circle is being supplied with arms by the Cardassians, though the Bajorans involved do not know it. The admiral replies that this is still an internal Bajoran matter and that the Prime Directive applies. He orders Sisko to evacuate.
Sisko chooses to interpret the order loosely, remarking that removing everything will take some time, and stays with a volunteer crew through the events of The Siege. An Admiral Chekote also appears in The Next Generation episode Gambit.