No my argument is that since in "The Visitor" there was no war with the Dominion and the second time around when Sisko was rescued there was a war then Sisko must have played a decisive role in starting that war. It's not clear what role he's played, and it could simply be something close to the butterfly effect, but it was determining.
What would Q say about the Dominion War?
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No my argument is that since in "The Visitor" there was no war with the Dominion and the second time around when Sisko was rescued there was a war then Sisko must have played a decisive role in starting that war. It's not clear what role he's played, and it could simply be something close to the butterfly effect, but it was determining.
No I was just playing around with the idea that we can insert Q anywhere and say he did anything, because he can do anything. I don't actually credit any of that!
Klingons could have mined the wormhole sooner. Or collapsed the entrance at some point then the Prophets reopened it. Or the Prophets could have just stopped the Dominion from going through in that timeline to make sure Sisko could be rescued.
The more I think about it the less it makes sense that ceding the station to Klingons would prevent the war, especially considering that would place Changeling Martok in control. Unless they still revealed Martok then the Klingons immediately collapsed the entrance.
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But if we follow that reasoning then it is also obvious that in the Visitor's timeline there were no Pah Wraiths rescued from the fire caves (otherwise we would have heard about it since Dukat said that they were going to set the entire quadrant on fire!) and therefore the Prophets were safe. In that case the Prophets would have selected a timeline where their worst enemies who are just as powerful as they are, had a chance to succeed. That would be rather stupid of them, don't you think?
Prophets are nonlinear. The pah'wraiths would not have been rescued in the next few years, that does not mean they would not have been rescued. Just maybe it would happen a millennium later, with no Sisko to stop them.
Or as Sisko would say, the year before.
The Q Continuum really lost the right to comment after fighting their own civil war in The Q and the Grey on VOY. At least the Dominion War just triggered the odd solar flare, rather than blowing up multiple suns.
What would Q say? "Let the games begin' Or 'The ants are fighting again'
A bit off-topic, but now I'm picturing an awesome party where the Q and the Prophets hang out...
I'm seeing a dinner party with the Prophets taking on the guises of different beings Q's annoyed over the eons. There are beings of different humanoid forms but also others, some microscopic and others the size of mountains. Yet others are whole star-systems and galaxies, uber-beings, and dimensions of the universe itself. He keeps getting more Q-ish as the night wears on and he gets drunker. But it's not just epic snark and zaniness...there's exquisitely sinister moments, some strangely opaque alien stuff, supreme kindness, and sublime wit. And then Sisko shows up.
That would be hilarious!
[gowron] That would be war! [/gowron]
Wait did that really happen?
Nah, that was me. Maybe I shoulda been a writer?
That would be good! Expand into a novela, or a series of short stories, with scenes before, during, and after the war?
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