The Starfleet captain of the USS Malinche, given the task of hunting the Maquis leader Michael Eddington after Sisko is taken off the case, only to be lured into an ambush.
Captain Sanders appears in For the Uniform, played by Eric Pierpoint.
In 2373, after Eddington cripples the Defiant with a computer virus, Starfleet Command reassigns the pursuit to Sanders and the Excelsior-class Malinche. Sanders breaks the news to Sisko with tact, acknowledging that the Defiant's captain has been after Eddington for eight months and has earned the right to feel aggrieved.
The Malinche fares no better. Eddington draws it away with a false trail and Maquis raiders leave it disabled, so that the barely repaired Defiant is the only ship in range when the Maquis begin poisoning Cardassian colonies. Sisko, not Sanders, finally forces Eddington to surrender by threatening the Maquis worlds.