The new secretary in the offices of Incredible Tales in 1953, and one of the first admirers of Benny Russell's story about a space station, in Sisko's vision of Far Beyond the Stars.
Darlene Kursky appears in the Deep Space Nine episode Far Beyond the Stars, in which Captain Sisko experiences life as Benny Russell, a black science fiction writer in 1950s New York. She has just started work as secretary to the editor Douglas Pabst, and she has the face of Jadzia Dax.
Darlene is cheerful, gum-chewing and easily underestimated by the writers around her. When Benny's story Deep Space Nine is passed round the office she reads it too, and is openly delighted by it, in particular by a woman with a worm in her belly.
She cannot change Pabst's refusal to print a story with a black captain, but she stands with those in the office who think it deserves to be read.