Nintendo seems to have some sense of quality standards, their licensed LEGO sets have an unusually high amount of prints.

This is not common. Hell, LEGO even put dozens of stickers in the 1000$ death star. If the marketing picture has stickers, the set will have stickers. The only question is: how many?

LEGO is notorious for leaving out or relegating (or rather: paywalling) minifigures to GWPs. So no surprise there.

Maybe he’ll be part of a similarly overpriced DS9 set in the future.

That’s the LEGO way to do things - overpriced and underwhelming.

REWRITE HISTORY - first thing I’d do is eject Harry Kim right into space

Do you mean the one that is mentioned and linked in the article?