What would the bajorans think of Q

[Voth commando1]

Okay so in the one Q episode DS9 does Kira states she has never heard of Q.

How though would Bajor's mostly religious population react to the existence and perhaps machinations of a playful trickster god?

Would they call on the prophets to dislodge him? Worship him instead? Or what?

 

[Sophie74656]

I don't know if they would see him as a god or just a more powerful alien being.

 

[USS Firefly]

I think it depends on how Q presents himself

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Prophets would make short work of Q if he tried anything on Bajor.

As for the Bajorans themselves: They'd just think Q is a dick (because he is) and want nothing to do with him. Bajorans don't seem to have much of a sense of humor anyway.

 

[Voth commando1]

The Prophets would make short work of Q if he tried anything on Bajor.

As for the Bajorans themselves: They'd just think Q is a dick (because he is) and want nothing to do with him. Bajorans don't seem to have much of a sense of humor anyway.

How would they make short work of Q? He could snap his fingers and cause them to cease existing.

 

[Paradise City]

Q could snap his fingers and replace the prophets. But he probably wouldn't challenge them on the basis of his appearances alone because the prophets are weaved into bajoran culture for the long haul.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How would they make short work of Q? He could snap his fingers and cause them to cease existing.

Maybe they can do the same to him. We really have no idea how powerful they are.

 

[Voth commando1]

Somehow I doubt it, what if Q wanted to screw with Bajoran religion and society for the fun of it he can be cruel sometimes. How would they respond then?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Q is mischievous, but not overtly cruel or evil. He likes to fixate on one specific person and mess with them (Picard, Janeway, etc.). Not even he would be so heartless as to screw with an entire species.

 

[Paradise City]

Screwing with an entire people is kinda boring. You've seen mass of people riot, you've seen it all. You've seen mass of people worship you, it all just becomes old hat.

Mucking around with an individual is much more fun.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Somehow I doubt it, what if Q wanted to screw with Bajoran religion and society for the fun of it he can be cruel sometimes. How would they respond then?

Q was in an episode. Kira, the most religious person in the franchise, didn't care.

 

[jmiller]

Maybe they can do the same to him. We really have no idea how powerful they are.

Well, we kinda know. They can send people through time, make a fleet of Jem Hadar ships vanish into thin air, etc. I'd say Q is more powerful, but it might be a fair fight for once.

 

[Voth commando1]

Q was in an episode. Kira, the most religious person in the franchise, didn't care.

She didn't really interact with him though and was absent during most of his antics IIRC

 

[Emperor Norton]

Wait a minute...



The audience derides the Vorta for thinking the Founders are gods, when we know they are just aliens with extraordinary abilities. But we go along with the Bajorans thinking the Prophets are gods, even though they are aliens with extraordinary abilities.

 

[Voth commando1]

I'm asking how a religious people with no problem with gods run into another "God" that isn't so opaque and semi benovelent as the prophets are.

 

[Relayer1]

I think the Bajorans would believe any old crap.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I'm asking how a religious people with no problem with gods run into another "God" that isn't so opaque and semi benovelent as the prophets are.

Why not proceed from the information that we know about Bajoran spirituality as presented in the series rather than from preconceived notions about what religion is? The series provides many details to help you along.

 

[Voth commando1]

Why not proceed from the information that we know about Bajoran spirituality as presented in the series rather than from preconceived notions about what religion is? The series provides many details to help you along.

I am proceeding from the series and the way Bajorans are portrayed and I am offended you would accuse me of anti-religious prejudice.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I am proceeding from the series and the way Bajorans are portrayed and I am offended you would accuse me of anti-religious prejudice.

There is an assumptions that underlies your OP: that Bajorans worship all all-powerful, all knowing creator god. Not all humans religions do that; it tends to be a characteristic of "Western" religions. What we see is that Bajorans want entities with whom they have an ancient relationship either (1) give them information about the future (prophecies, backed more or less by the presence of the Orbs) or (2) protection from intrusion (as represented by Winn, Akora, and the Pah Wraiths). In the latter there is an element that has to do with weakness, but there is no indication that they are driven to accord reverence to the most powerful. Moreover, we can surmise that there is some broad knowledge of beings whose abilities are somehow "metaphysical," whether Q or not. There's no indication there beliefs were affected. Now, if it a matter that Q screws with them and shakes their belief system, we have know way of knowing how it would fall it. The Holocaust led some Jews to become more spiritual, but overall there was more of a trend toward secularism. The Bajorans could easily become more secular themselves.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Wait a minute...



The audience derides the Vorta for thinking the Founders are gods, when we know they are just aliens with extraordinary abilities. But we go along with the Bajorans thinking the Prophets are gods, even though they are aliens with extraordinary abilities.

Bajorans possess free will, Vorta were genetically engineered not to.