Was Q secretly in cahoots with the Bajoran prophets?

[Deimos Anomaly]

Q tossed the E-D into the path of the Borg.

This gave the Borg knowledge of the UFP. The Borg later ran a couple of attacks on the UFP, trying to assimilate Earth. If not for Q's fooling around, they would not have known of the UFP, and even if they had, they probably wouldn't have considered them a priority target.

The Borg's attack on earth which was met by a UFP fleet at Wolf 359 directly led to Benjamin Sisko being assigned to Terok Nor, the newly rechristened Deep Space 9. Which posting led to his "destiny" and stuff with Bajor and the prophets.

Thoughts?

 

[Deks]

I would say that the Continuum is not on too good terms with entities that exhibited similar powers as them.

Sisko to my understanding was transferred to Ds9 not on his own request and if you saw the first 2 episodes, he was seriously thinking about leaving the station as soon as possible until he met the wormhole aliens who showed him visions and helped move past his wife's death.
Had his wife not died in the Wolf 359 battle, it's quite possible he would still be transferred to DS9 but possibly not so eager to leave as was portrayed in the show.

Borg attacking Wolf 359 was not the main reason Sisko was transferred to Ds9, or at least nothing of the sort was ever presented in the shows, nor did I get an impression it was something like that.

 

[Newt]

I'm sure the borg knew about the Federation before Q introduced them to each other. The Borg were responsible for the attacks on several outposts around the Neutral Zone, at the end of TNG's first season.
Q just gave the Federation a head start.

 

[JD]

That seems kinda unlikely to me. I just really don't think that the Q would have worked with anyone who wasn't part of the Continuum. Other than Q, they don't really seem to care about anybody or anything that doesn't directly affect them. Although from what I've about the TNG book Q&A it sounds like everything Q did was still just a way for the Continuum to save their own asses.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Q used the Borg to plague humanity for his amusement, but I suspect that since it was the Prophets intention all along that Sisko become their Emissary, he would have come to DS9 regardless of the situation at Wolf 359. The loss of his wife meant they had to do some damage control to return him to a healthy frame of mind to accept the position.

 

[HRHTheKING]

Was Q secretly in cahoots with the Bajoran prophets?

No, there was absolutely no connection whatsoever.

 

[Matt]

The Prophets are Q's parents.

P-rophets. P comes before Q.

It all makes sense!

 

[gastrof]

Deimos Anomaly said:
Q tossed the E-D into the path of the Borg.

This gave the Borg knowledge of the UFP. The Borg later ran a couple of attacks on the UFP, trying to assimilate Earth. If not for Q's fooling around, they would not have known of the UFP, and even if they had, they probably wouldn't have considered them a priority target.

The Borg's attack on earth which was met by a UFP fleet at Wolf 359 directly led to Benjamin Sisko being assigned to Terok Nor, the newly rechristened Deep Space 9. Which posting led to his "destiny" and stuff with Bajor and the prophets.

Thoughts?

My thoughts are that you're forgetting something.

When Q sent Picard and company across the galaxy to have their first encounter with the Borg, the Borg had already been visiting both Federation and Romulan space. Several outposts and/or colonies had already been destroyed.

If memory serves, the end of the episode said that the Borg were already coming. If anything, they may have come a little sooner than originally intended, but on the other hand, if the Enterprise hadn't first encountered them, the Federation might not have known they were coming at all.

Even in GENERATIONS' and VOYAGER's ret-cons (SOME people in the Federation knew about the Borg very early on), apparently nobody knew they were coming...until the Enterprise was sent to meet them.

By Q.

 

[Broccoli]

gastrof said:
Even in GENERATIONS' and VOYAGER's ret-cons (SOME people in the Federation knew about the Borg very early on), apparently nobody knew they were coming...until the Enterprise was sent to meet them.

By Q.

Yeah...the Borg knew of Earth since Archer's time (well...they sent the message then, but it didn't get there until 200 years later). It has been implied that the Borg were hush-hush in the Federation. Only certain higher ups knew about them, but nothing was known to the average citizen (kinda like how conspiracy theorists talk about the government and UFOs).

Q just gave Federation the ability to open up with that information.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^Forced them, more accurately...
Boy, this opens up a whole new world in fan fiction...

 

[Starbreaker]

A bigger world than that that Picard / Bashir stuff I saw last year?

 

[Broccoli]

Peach Wookiee said:
^Forced them, more accurately...

Thanks...that's a better way to put it. The Feds really had no choice at that point.

 

[Venardhi]

I think it is more likely that the Prophets (knowing past, present and future) had no need of Q for help and simply looked at all possibilities when they were creating their emissary and chose the right moment/person so he would end up there eventually.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Newt said:
I'm sure the borg knew about the Federation before Q introduced them to each other.

Correct to a certain extent. If you cast your mind back to the ST:Enterprise episode 'Regeneration' where they found those bodies of the Borg drones at the north pole which were left there from what happened in ST:First Contact the Borg drones stole an Earth ship and set course for the Delta Quadrant, the Enterprise managed to destroy them but not before the Borg assimilted ship sent a message to the Borg indicating the co-ordintes of where Earth is, T'Pol noted it would take something like over 2 hundred years to reach its destination (cant really remeber how long she says) but that Cube that Q hurled the Ent-D at was probably already on its way to Earth, so Q actually did Earth a favour by giving the Federation time to mount a defence and give them extra time to come up with a solution to defeating the cube.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

No...I don't think Q was in 'cahoots' with anyone. Not even the rest of the Q Continuum.