We are of Bajor...

[Nerroth]

Hi.


I was thinking about the Prophets - who, despite not having a particular reason (one might think) to declare themselves so, make a point of saying 'we are of Bajor'.


Though the details may be up for debate, there must be something that causes them to be here, and not at Andor or Cardassia Prime or the Omarion Nebula or elsewhere.


What if the Prophets are ascended Bajorans?


Even if such ascension happens a million or more years from now, they would still be going to a plane of existence that is outside of normal time - and thus be in a position to interact with any point along that timeline.

Indeed, it might not just be Bajorans. Maybe members of other species residing on Bajor at the time could join the Bajorans in ascending - perhaps by following some Orb-related revelation, or for whatever other reason.

(The Pah-wraiths could be rival ascendants - similar to the split between the Alterans and Ori in Stargate: SG-1.)


And in terms of their relation to Bajor, it's worth noting that we may have descended from amphibious evolutionary ancestors, but we don't have a racial memory of knowing what it's like to have gills. Perhaps the step taken to complete the ascension causes such a break so as to require the Prophets to have to 'learn' about linear time all over again?


Perhaps the one over-riding memory they may bring with them to the other side is precisely that which ties them to the B'hava'el system...

...the memory that we are of Bajor.

 

[Thestral]

I think that's as good a theory as any. I rather like the mysterious nature of the Prophets, that we never truly know who they are or what they're about, other than caring a great deal about Sisko and being tied to Bajor. TrekLit may be going in the direction of explaining things more (I'm slightly behind in the Relaunch), but it's a comfort to know that there are some things that never were fully explored.

 

[Captrek]

EDIT: Where the heck is the delete button?

 

[Michael]

I think that's as good a theory as any. I rather like the mysterious nature of the Prophets, that we never truly know who they are or what they're about, other than caring a great deal about Sisko and being tied to Bajor. TrekLit may be going in the direction of explaining things more (I'm slightly behind in the Relaunch), but it's a comfort to know that there are some things that never were fully explored.

I completely agree. It's fun to hypothesize about such things, but I love the fact that these kind of aspects are left mysterious. It would take away a lot of the Prophet's charm if we knew all about them, methinks.

 

[Damask]

I completely agree. It's fun to hypothesize about such things, but I love the fact that these kind of aspects are left mysterious. It would take away a lot of the Prophet's charm if we knew all about them, methinks.

Indeed. By the end of the series there is still so much that could be explored but it's better that it wasn't.

Overexposure didn't help the Borg or the Q (to a lesser extent) .

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I completely agree. It's fun to hypothesize about such things, but I love the fact that these kind of aspects are left mysterious. It would take away a lot of the Prophet's charm if we knew all about them, methinks.

Indeed. By the end of the series there is still so much that could be explored but it's better that it wasn't.

Overexposure didn't help the Borg or the Q (to a lesser extent) .

I completely agree with this, though I found the information about the Borg (don't want to say more than that) in the Destiny trilogy unusually excellent, LOL.

However we always knew the Borg were some race that started assimilating other races. The Prophets were always much more a mystery and they stayed that way.

I like the OP's theory. It's interesting that the Prophets are powerful and yet limited by not understanding linear time.

 

[PTRACER]

Well they're "wormhole aliens" with some connection to Bajor. I suppose hypothetically speaking, because they exist outside linear time, they would have seen "the future" and seen that the exit to "their" wormhole is very close to the planet of Bajor and that's why there's a connection between them and the Bajoran people.

Would the Prophets actually see themselves as Gods though? Or just wormhole aliens who adopted the Bajorans...

 

[Thestral]

What are gods but powerful beings who watch over and care about their children, whether real or adopted?

 

[Captrek]

What are gods but powerful beings who watch over and care about their children, whether real or adopted?

w00t! I’m a god!

(“Powerful being”? Yes, compared to my cats, I am.)

 

[PorthosShadow]

"We are of Bajor" has always been an interesting line to me and not just the words but how they were delivered. The tone that the line was delivered in seemed to be like "You know what we mean, right?" Anyway I have to agree with the theory that the prophits are ascended Bajorans, nothing seems to indicate otherwise.

Also, I liked that they were kept mysterious and never quiete explained. Over explaining something only seemed to hurt the Borg as time went on.