George Sanders

George Sanders (aka Harlan Sanders) was a Federation Starfleet officer introduced in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode For the Uniform. He was portrayed by , who also portrayed George Francisco in Alien Nation. 
By 2363 Sanders was Captain of the Excelsior-class USS Malinche. In that year Sanders and his ship participated in a task force under the command of Jean-Luc Picard to prevent the Manraloth from gaining access to an ancient database that was stored in the event horizon of a nearby black hole. 
In 2373 he helped the crew of the USS Defiant test the new holo-communication system, and remarked to Captain Benjamin Sisko that he wasn't used to strangers appearing on his bridge as the hologram of Sisko appeared to be sitting on the Malinche's bridge. The two ships were also pursuing a Maquis raider commanded by the renegade officer Michael Eddington. When the Defiant cornered Eddington's raider, Eddington transmitted a virus that disabled the Defiant's computer systems. Both Sanders and Sisko had no choice but to break off the pursuit as the Malinche had to tow the Defiant back to Deep Space Nine. 
After that Starfleet Command felt Sisko had become too personally involved in chasing down Eddington and tasked Sanders with bringing the renegade Starfleet officer in. While looking for Eddington the Malinche answered a distress call from a Cardassian ship but when they lowered their shields to assist the ship the Maquis attacked, disabled Sanders' ship.
Captain Sisko soon arrived in the Defiant to provide emergency assistance. Once the Malinche was able to get underway under her own power, Sisko went to continue the hunt for Eddington. Sanders asked Sisko to save him a seat at Eddington's court martial then wished him good hunting. Sisko was able to capture Eddington, who was transported back to Earth along with several other Maquis prisoners on the Malinche. 
==First Splinter Timeline==
In the timeline created by the Borg when they fired a temporal beam at the Enterprise-E as she returned to the 24th century, Sanders continued as Captain of the Malinche. In the Borg invasion of 2381, Sanders and his crew were killed when the Malinche was destroyed in a battle with several Borg cubes.
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