Hes a spook.
He had too many spook markers on him aka lucky coincidences.The only other even more famous venetian jew is Napoleon ofcourse.
I guess Marco Polo stories was a project to popularize/increase international maritime trading which Columbus was the biggest proper kickstart of them all.
Since Polo was a jew i guess we can indirectly see their influence and power in that period of time in the places where he "travelled".

At wiki we have: ‘During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames upon the Jews, by which they are identifiable today: Ai (艾), Shi (石), Gao (高), Gan (甘), Jin (金), Li (李), Zhang (張), and Zhao (趙). Two of these, Jin and Shi, are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Gold and Stone.’

And another paste: https://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-travels-of-marco-polo-and-jews-of.html

One of the odd things about 'The Travels of Marco Polo' is that it is one of the first mentions we have of jews being resident in China and more specifically of the jewish community at Kaifeng, which had been the capital of the Song dynasty before it was moved to Hangzhou and then, with the Mongol conquest, to Beijing.

The jewish community in China probably descends from the jewish 'Radhanite' merchants of the silk road; (1) who were incidentally a big part of the early White slave trade (2) as recorded by Ibn-Kordadhbeh among others. (3) The first known synagogue in China was built circa 1163 AD, (4) but it is likely this is just the first place of worship we know about rather than the first one actually built.

It is worth noting that, as early as the ninth century, there were sizable jewish communities in the cities of Beijing, Canton, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kaifeng and Ningbo. (5) The commonality between these cities is that they are either important port cities (Canton, Guangzhou and Ningbo) or capital cities (Kaifeng [early Song Dynasty], Hangzhou [later Song Dynasty] and Beijing [Yuan Dynasty (the Mongols)]), which suggests that jews were engaging in the infiltration of governmental power structures that has so marked them out historically (6) and was achieved to a significant extent by the time of the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth century. (7)

So with all of that spoken, it kind of makes you think about the name LEE(and most probably Liu,Lie,Li,Leigh).Considering how many times it has popped up in anglo world, it makes you think that its just a transformation of the name Levi.I might be stretching it at this point but take it as a food for thought.

On July 30, 1976, the LR returned its initial results from Mars. Amazingly, they were positive. As the experiment progressed, a total of four positive results, supported by five varied controls, streamed down from the twin Viking spacecraft landed some 4,000 miles apart. The data curves signaled the detection of microbial respiration on the Red Planet. The curves from Mars were similar to those produced by LR tests of soils on Earth. It seemed we had answered that ultimate question.
When the Viking Molecular Analysis Experiment failed to detect organic matter, the essence of life, however, NASA concluded that the LR had found a substance mimicking life, but not life. Inexplicably, over the 43 years since Viking, none of NASA’s subsequent Mars landers has carried a life detection instrument to follow up on these exciting results. Instead the agency launched a series of missions to Mars to determine whether there was ever a habitat suitable for life and, if so, eventually to bring samples to Earth for biological examination.

The Viking LR sought to detect and monitor ongoing metabolism, a very simple and fail-proof indicator of living microorganisms. Several thousand runs were made, both before and after Viking, with terrestrial soils and microbial cultures, both in the laboratory and in extreme natural environments. No false positive or false negative result was ever obtained. This strongly supports the reliability of the LR Mars data, even though their interpretation is debated.

In summary, we have: positive results from a widely-used microbiological test; supportive responses from strong and varied controls; duplication of the LR results at each of the two Viking sites; replication of the experiment at the two sites; and the failure over 43 years of any experiment or theory to provide a definitive nonbiological explanation of the Viking LR results.

About the author:

Gilbert V. Levin is an engineer and inventor; he was the principal investigator Labeled Release experiment on NASA Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/

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Nog and jake are awesome. They start poorly - as typical "good boye kid and meme kid". Then, when you follow how they become more adult, you expect them end like weasley but they are not - they pure opposite. One seriosly think what he want from life in reality, and ended being a wrighter. Episode where Sisko ended in different phase and appear only once in 10 years making life of Jake suffering probably one of the most powerfull emotionally episodes, because you get invested into jake character very deep.
Nog from just ferengi boy starting to understand life on example of his father and uncle. He get dissapointed by whole fereny values because how it made his realtives kind of loozers, when they also have opportunities to be much more sucsesfull. His decidion to go into startfleet instead one of other most awesome and memorable scenes
https://youtu.be/Fuzh6RT0wx8 - you never expected something like this from this character at this point, however you absoluetly belive him and fully understand situation. This is moment where you start look and Nog seriously. But more than that - he continue to elvolve, grow up even after this. Like episodes how he learn to be true officier, or episode where he suffers leg damage and need to fight his weakness to belive in himself again. Brilliant episodes.

>Bajor politics/spiritual stuff

This is probably my favorite part of the series. Star Trek kind of touched this concept already - you remember that episode where unknow force with ultra powers care about primitive planet in form of "god". But there it expanded a lot, creating one big complex plot across whole series based on idea, how religion can exist, when you actually have proofs of existeng gods - or at least entities that possess full power you belive in. How whole series presented concept of non-linear time as basis, how described bajorian culture and traditions and history. This is what star trek really needed - not another 9000 random races, but more background and lore about concretic ones, and DS9 did it exelent.
I also want to add that Wynn is awesoem character - it goes in question, what if you have faith, if you have need for gods, but they answer anyone BUT you. And you turn agains them. And then you relise, that it was all your trial, and you failed it.

>especially the Keiko/O'Brien

i like their relationships as contrast to all wierdness happens arond on station. They kind of example of typical humans - core of actual federation, witch is kind of island of normality in this space station of total wierdos. Also their relationships works kind of examples for Worf and Dax, and whole plotline with Kira have thier kid is kind of funny for me