A resident of San Francisco's Sanctuary District A in 2024 who helps Benjamin Sisko keep order during the Bell Riots and is killed when troops retake the district.
Michael Webb is played by Bill Smitrovich in the two-part Deep Space Nine episode Past Tense. He lives in the walled district with his wife and his son Danny, one of the many jobless but law-abiding people the residents call gimmes.
Sisko and Bashir, stranded in the past, first meet him while looking for somewhere to sleep. After the real Gabriel Bell dies and Sisko takes his name to preserve history, he turns to Webb as a steady and respected figure who can rally other residents, guard the hostages in the processing centre and counter the volatile B.C.
Webb helps to put the residents' stories and demands before the public over the net. When the governor orders the district stormed, he is shot dead outside the centre, one of hundreds killed that night.