Founders & Faces

[Anwar]

Eh, I just go for the theory that they were one of the first races to evolve from the Progenitor seeding. Otherwise they'd be far more advanced by the time of DS9 if they were billions of years old by then.

Advanced? Dudes can violate conservation of matter and energy with their bodies.

Come now, we all know that if you've been around for a few billion years you turn into glowy light! That's how Trek evolution works!

 

[Triskelion]

And after that, salamanders, apparently.

 

[Captain Fine]

And after that, salamanders, apparently.

I reject that from my personal canon

 

[Anwar]

So did Braga. Though to be fair he actually seemed to understand the basics of evolution better than "turn into a ball of light".