The Q or the Prophets?

[Kai Winn]

well, no. when quinn took voyager back to before the big bang, and q followed, they evidently didn't pass trough the bottle neck of the big bang itself. would have been quite an experience, and a fatal one. in some way, they must have bypassed the space-time continuum. if you can go to a point were there was no time, it must be meaningless for you.

 

[MDMart]

I gotta put my vote on Q.
For the prophets to do anything to you, you need to be in their world/inside the wormhole. While Q could simply just make the prophets disappear, nomatter where in time or spacer he may be.
However if inside the wormhole, I think it would be the fastest-on-the-tricker concept, that would decide who'd win.
I've always wondered what would happen if one Q made another Q disappear forever. Would that other Q instantly counteract the attack, or would he just disappear!? I mean, the Q seen in Voyager, who wanted to kill himself, was "imprisoned" by the other Qs, however could not kill himself nomatter what he tried, and it seems that it takes the Continuum to make a Q mortal... Though in TNG in one episode, Q gives Riker the power of Q (he makes him a Q), but then takes the powers away again, when Riker refuses to keep them.
... sorry, this has become an intirely other disgussion, however still somewhat relevant to the subject, if you ask me

 

[nahuatl]

Bingo Nightdiamond, the prophets are constantly altering/updating reality. They didn't know about linear time/existence before Sisko came to them, but afterward they updated reality so that they always knew about linear time. This was mentioned in a star trek blog I read a while ago, which had the best theory on the prophets I've ever read.

http://siskoid.blogspot.com/2009/09/on-nature-of-prophets.html

 

[Nightdiamond]

I've noticed a few interesting things about Q and their powers;

In one TNG episode, Q is on the ship, and meets Guinan.

He seems disturbed by her, almost as if threatened, and when he insinuates to Picard that he will do something to her, she raises her hands in some protective gesture, as if that would prevent him from doing it.

As far as I know Guinan is a humanoid (mortal) - if a physical humanoid can threaten Q like that, it may - may move Q a step down?

I've been trying to see if the Prophets have done anything "powerful" outside the wormhole they live in.

I haven't, except for their orbs - at least two of their orbs have done something.

One, the orb of time, transported an the entire Defiant into the past, and it was pretty far from the wormhole.

The other, was supposed to be a piece of an orb a village priest had. He used it to create a monster literally out of the villager's imaginations, storms and everything.

What made it really "supernatural" was that the tricorders couldn't register anything, yet the effects were real.

Since the orbs were basically tools the the Prophets used, it seems to suggest the Prophets themselves could do much more.