A street preacher who addresses Benny Russell as a prophet and urges him to write the words that will lead his people, in Sisko's vision of 1953 New York.
The Preacher appears in the Deep Space Nine episode Far Beyond the Stars. He stands on the pavements of Harlem calling passers-by to follow the Prophets, and he has the face of Sisko's father, Joseph.
Each time Benny Russell meets him, the Preacher speaks as though he knows what Benny is writing. He tells him to walk with the Prophets and to write the words, and treats the story of Captain Sisko as something that has been given to Benny rather than invented.
He is there again at the end, in the ambulance carrying Benny away after his breakdown, telling him that he is both the dreamer and the dream. His presence is the clearest sign that the Bajoran Prophets are behind the vision.