Who is the Emissary?

[AntonyF]

Really thinking about it and how it would affect the character, my choice would be Data. Being exposed to spirituality on that level would help in his development towards humanity and would be interesting to watch how technology and spirituality interacted.

That's quite wild to me.

Imagining Data who flits form high functioning intelligence and understanding of humanoid behaviours, to the next second "The cat jumped over the lazy dog? Spot?" dropped amongst religion and some religious nut jobs... well it may be a learning experience for Data but chaos for the Bajoran people.

Particularly when he tells them "As an android, I am unable to accept that which cannot be proven through rational means."

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Picard, but he has enough in his resume: Locutus, the Klingon Arbiter of Succession, et. Al.

Picard? He would riot if the Bajorans so much as suggested to make him a religious icon.

Pike would work though.
The way he struggles with his impending doom of the beep beep chair.

 

[Uxi]

He'd find it illogical.

Before V'ger anyway.

 

[Poltargyst]

Not as a religion icon. Hell, he'd find "wormhole aliens" imprecise.

How does Spock talk about katras then?

 

[Finn]

He might not see it as a religious thing..

The point is I don't see Spock being more comfortable about being a religious icon compared to Sisko, especially when he'd just see the wormholes aliens...as some kind of non-corporeal beings that seem to exist outside time and somehow interacted with the Bajoran people throughout the ages.

He probably would insult the Bajorans who come up to him and ask him to bless their upcoming nuptials.

 

[Frontis]

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