Did Opaka know?

[RobertScorpio]

Did Opaka know, in the first episode, Emissary, that Sisko was really of Bajor? And if so, why not just tell him. Wouldn't it had made Sisko take his role as emissary a little more seriously earlier on? Or did she realize he had to grow into it, in essence, find him self before really setting out on his path as Emissary?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Michael]

I don't think she knew. But maybe she believed.

 

[ZMistress]

I would guess that there was at least one prophecy about the Emissary being "of Bajor" as Sisko says in "Destiny" that there were quite a few about the Emissary. But seeing how much trouble Sisko has for years with accepting any of these prophecies I doubt it would have made him believe in him being the Emissary or taking the role more seriously.

Sisko was deeply troubled when he first met Opaka and I think she knew there was nothing to gain with pushing him too much.

 

[erastus25]

I would guess that there was at least one prophecy about the Emissary being "of Bajor" as Sisko says in "Destiny" that there were quite a few about the Emissary. But seeing how much trouble Sisko has for years with accepting any of these prophecies I doubt it would have made him believe in him being the Emissary or taking the role more seriously.

Sisko was deeply troubled when he first met Opaka and I think she knew there was nothing to gain with pushing him too much.

She also probably didn't see it as her place to inform him. Opaka was wise enough to know that Sisko's spiritual journey would be much more moving if he realized himself that he was of Bajor, and wasn't told by a random religious figure he had just met.

 

[shatastrophic]

I like to think she knew everything.

 

[psikeyhackr]

This entire religious business makes DS9 more interesting than the Dominion war in my opinion. That comment Opaka made about, "He who is to be the Emissary does not want to be among us." It is like she already knew he would be the Emissary but she didn't know that he didn't want to be there until she felt his Pa.

But then things get really tricky when we learn that Sisko's mother had been possessed by a "prophet". So we have to wonder what the Prophets showed Opaka when she had orb experiences because it looks like Sisko was predestined. But it also looks like the "worm hole aliens" were jiving Sisko in the first episode. How could they not know about linear time and yet do all they did.

We need to write a Book of Revelations of DS9.

psik

 

[Jono]

But it also looks like the "worm hole aliens" were jiving Sisko in the first episode. How could they not know about linear time and yet do all they did.

They do it after they learn about linear time

 

[Anwar]

Remember, the Prophets are non-linear and can enter and exit time as they wish. They may have actually sent the Prophet who conceived Sisko back AFTER they met him to connect him deeper to them.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Remember, the Prophets are non-linear and can enter and exit time as they wish. They may have actually sent the Prophet who conceived Sisko back AFTER they met him to connect him deeper to them.

So how was there a stone tablet in B'hala saying "Welcome Emissary" that was buried for 20,000 years containing a pah-wraith involved in the prophecy of a battle on the gateway to the temple. Since the station was the gateway which hadn't been built and B'hala hadn't been discovered to find the stone.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Reckoning

No they have to lay the groundwork in linear time so they had to understand it. Their pawns in that linear time may need to be kept in the dark.

psik

 

[Damask]

Remember, the Prophets are non-linear and can enter and exit time as they wish. They may have actually sent the Prophet who conceived Sisko back AFTER they met him to connect him deeper to them.

So how was there a stone tablet in B'hala saying "Welcome Emissary" that was buried for 20,000 years containing a pah-wraith involved in the prophecy of a battle on the gateway to the temple. Since the station was the gateway which hadn't been built and B'hala hadn't been discovered to find the stone.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Reckoning

No they have to lay the groundwork in linear time so they had to understand it. Their pawns in that linear time may need to be kept in the dark.

psik

Or when the station was built and the Prophets knew who their Emissary was they created a tablet and put it back in the past. Like they did with Fake-Emissary.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Or when the station was built and the Prophets knew who their Emissary was they created a tablet and put it back in the past. Like they did with Fake-Emissary.

Using Occam's Razor, which is simpler. All of that or that they were handing Sisko a load of bull? Considering what they did to his father and mother they don't have any problem with using people. But it is fiction it is just a question of how absurd a fictional universe the writers wrote.

I rather dislike time travel stories. Every atom in your body is millions of years old. How could you go into the past 100 years without those atoms going back to where they were at the time?

psik

 

[Anwar]

It's easy if you exist in time and not space. The Prophets exist pretty much perpendicular to our existence. Whereas we exist in space, they exist in time and are not subject to our laws of existence.

 

[Kira Nerys]

Maybe she did know but Sisko would not have believed her so she let go on a journey of self discovery.

 

[Chuckling]

Maybe she did know but Sisko would not have believed her so she let go on a journey of self discovery.

What she said.


Chuckling