This is something that I was going to put into the "Terminus of Bajoran Wormhole" thread but decided not to.
My question is: why is the Celestial Temple a wormhole at all?
The Prophets are the gods of Bajor, so why create a wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant out of their temple? Theres no need. All they need is a location in space for it, to send out the Orbs. It doesn't have to be a wormhole. Of course this drives the Ds9 story, but in-universe wise, it doesn't make sense.
I think a wonderful DS9 story would have explained this, by having the Prophets be the gods of another world on the Gamma Quadrant end.
The Prophets goal was for the two peoples to eventually meet up. But something happened and the Gamma Quadrant civilisation was wiped out (a religious civil war maybe?) and so the Bajoran's would have to learn from their "brothers" fate and not repeat their mistakes. It would have explained the idea of a temple/wormhole perfectly. Pretty good episode too.
My question is: why is the Celestial Temple a wormhole at all?
The Prophets are the gods of Bajor, so why create a wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant out of their temple? Theres no need. All they need is a location in space for it, to send out the Orbs. It doesn't have to be a wormhole. Of course this drives the Ds9 story, but in-universe wise, it doesn't make sense.
I think a wonderful DS9 story would have explained this, by having the Prophets be the gods of another world on the Gamma Quadrant end.
The Prophets goal was for the two peoples to eventually meet up. But something happened and the Gamma Quadrant civilisation was wiped out (a religious civil war maybe?) and so the Bajoran's would have to learn from their "brothers" fate and not repeat their mistakes. It would have explained the idea of a temple/wormhole perfectly. Pretty good episode too.