Did Sisko create himself, Bajoran religion and maybe the entire prime universe?

[dub]

All of this has happened before and will happen again.

 

[UnknownSample]

I think you're giving the Trek brain trust (Piller & Berman) and the scriptwriters far too much credit. It's a great tv show but still "just" a tv show.

I'd be very surprised if anyone commenting on this thread thinks any of the speculations here were in Berman etc's heads. These are fan ideas mostly.
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I like this thread. The Prophets may experience time non-linearly, but time somehow still has a bearing on them. In some sense they are still passing through time. Their actions have an impact on the galaxy at specific points in time, some earlier, some later, for us, even if it doesn't see linear to them.
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So, about their not being powerful enough to change all these things, there is all the time in the world for them to develop such powers. Billions of years from now, they could reach that power level, and then reach back into the 24th century to play match maker for Joe Sisko.

 

[Prax]

If they exist outside of time, they don't develop. They just are.

 

[Ketrick]

If they knew about the future though and knew that SIsko would someday find the wormhole just by creating him, then how come they didn't seem to comprehend the concept of linear time in the pilot?
Also what would even motivate them to send orbs or arrange for SIsko to be born because if all they understand is non liner time how would they even know that there is something beyond the Celestial Temple. Something from outside must have made them become aware of a bigger universe but it would also have to be something that makes them take intrest in the Bajoran people. For whatever reason they care about the Bajorans and seem to be pretty indifferent to all the other stuff in the Alpha Quadrant.

Jason

My thought is that as far as "Emissary" goes, the Prophets in fact understood linear existence and thinking and only let on otherwise to get Ben Sisko's guard down enough for him to face that he was emotionally and mentally stuck at the moment Jennifer died.

 

[The Original Series]

I was thinking about the pilot. When Sisko meets the Prophets they don't know about him or humans or about linear time. This is because they are basically the concept of infinity with consciousness. Sisko teaches them about these things. When we see the Prophets in later seasons not only do they seem to be more aware of the universe we find out that they do care about the Bajorans and they even arranged for Sisko's birth.

I got a theory is once they learned about these things that means they did become more linear and they used the knowledge they gained from Sisko at a early time in their exsitence to create him so he can come someday and meet them to teach him about these things.It goes beyond just making sure he is born. It means having to shape the entire universe in away to make sure he someday will get to that wormhole in season 1.
It's basically a never ending loop in that they create him so he can influence them so they will create him. It's also possible that the Prime universe was at one point different but when they altered it everything changed. Maybe Benny Russell was Sisko in the original timeline which would make it both real but also no longer real anymore.

Jason

Sisko is a New Orleans Chrome-Dome. Voodoo is bunk.