? omg! Not only have you pointed out possible happenings, but!!! You’ve hit onto something I hadn’t even considered ? the worm hole aliens (prophets) have NO structured linear paradigm, so since his father was married to Sisko’s worm hole mother (? that just sounds wrong ? ?) couldn’t they have just manipulated him to be back into THAT time construct? Cuz I’m still confused with first episode and they act like they are 100% JUST finding out about Sisko and linear time frames, yet~ later on we find out they knew his mother and manipulated him into his eventual role as (???

yikes! Can’t remember Sisko’s title) what he became. So, with this, we’d have to assume that they initially learned about everything from Sisko, then traveled back in time to make sure his mother had him. Bootstrap temporal mechanics makes eyeball swirls ??