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"We are of Bajor"

Camren

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That's what the Prophets claim. But what does that mean? Did they originate from Bajor as corporeal beings and evolve into the "Wormhole Aliens"? Was this ever explained?
 
I agree. Now, how they evolved into wormhole aliens who have no temporal frame of reference must be a fascinating tale.
 
unfortunatley it's pretty borning.. turns out they were just screwing with a new type of bread toasting and jam spreading technology that had the side effect of hyperevolving them into beings of non-liner energy over a mater of a generation... :)... well it COULD be true.. you don'y know
 
Maybe they're Bajorans, from over let's say millions of years in the future. They evolved into the First-One like state and one of the points of the process might have been transition into higher dimension, where there is no perception of time. Who knows...too much B5 on my hands recently :D
 
Didn't they, at one point, say "The Sisko is of Bajor, but he will find no rest there"? Sisko was not from there, but that's where his heart is.

I always just took "we are of Bajor" to simply mean their primary interest was in that planet and those people, sort of like pets. Why this was the case was simply never explained.

They could, of course, be from Bajor millions of years ago, but not necessarily.
 
And they went from "What the f*#k are you? How did you get here? You are bad." In The Emissary to "Yeah, well we planned this whole thing out and even created your mom so you would be born" towards the end of the series.
 
Well it was confirmed that Bajorans were not originally from Bajor but settled there 1000 years back or something. The wormhole aliens were probably the true species of bajor and evolved into the beings they are now still wanting to keep an eye on the homestead.
 
shatastrophic said:
Well it was confirmed that Bajorans were not originally from Bajor but settled there 1000 years back or something. The wormhole aliens were probably the true species of bajor and evolved into the beings they are now still wanting to keep an eye on the homestead.


yeah that was my thought exactly.
 
shatastrophic said:
Well it was confirmed that Bajorans were not originally from Bajor but settled there 1000 years back or something.
Really? I find that unlikely. Throughout the series it's been mentioned how ancient Bajoran culture is, surely that culture stretches back further than just a thousand years?
 
Yeah, I thought they could trace their history on Bajor back at least 10,000 years.

Where was it mentioned that they came from somewhere else?
 
shatastrophic said:
Well it was confirmed that Bajorans were not originally from Bajor but settled there 1000 years back or something.
Utter nonsense. No such thing was ever confirmed or even hinted at.

Kirby said:
And they went from "What the f*#k are you? How did you get here? You are bad." In The Emissary to "Yeah, well we planned this whole thing out and even created your mom so you would be born" towards the end of the series.
You're thinking linearly. They didn't know him in "Emissary" because that was the first point in their existence at which he entered their realm. But when they figured out that they would need him to save them from the Pagh-wraiths, they went back in time (which is just as easy as walking to the next room for them) and interfered in his birth to make sure he would have the correct psychic bond to them to help them.

That made it look from our linear point of view like a change of backstory, but from the Prophets' point of view it makes perfect sense. And we already knew from "Accession" that changes the Prophets make in the timeline don't necessarily rewrite all of history, just the tiny little thing they need to change - in that case, Akorem's poem; in this case, Sisko's parentage.
 
Hey.. Magister I grew up in Waco... good to see it's still on the map :)

I just got the impression that they were some of the origional inhabitants of that planet (not saying they evolved there) who, upon "ascending" decided to watch over those who came after..
 
shatastrophic said:
Well it was confirmed that Bajorans were not originally from Bajor but settled there 1000 years back or something.
lvsxy808 said:
Utter nonsense. No such thing was ever confirmed or even hinted at.



Do you know what is utter nonsense, YOU. You call yourself a fan, why don't you get the hell outta here and go to a babylon5 area or something. Here's your proof. Straight from StarTrek.com Episode 24 from season 6 called Time's Orphan. O'Brien is reunited with his wife, Keiko, and their two children. But during a celebratory picnic on a nearby planet, eight-year-old Molly falls into a vortex of swirling energy. When the rest of the crew arrives to help, they determine Molly slipped through a time portal that sent her back 300 years, to a time when the planet of Bajor was uninhabited. They reactivate the portal and transport her out, but their calculations are off by a decade. When Molly materializes on the transporter pad, she is an 18-year-old woman.

Did you notice that 300 years earlier the planet was uninhabited? Sorry i said 1000 years ago but i figured some fan might correct me in an appropriate fashion not be a dick about it. Sincerely Shatastophic.
 
Perhaps the prophets relationship to Bajor is analagous to the EDO's relationship to their God.Sorry if someone has said this before but I'm a newbie.
(mutter,mutter damn newbie).
 
shatastrophic said:
shatastrophic said:
Well it was confirmed that Bajorans were not originally from Bajor but settled there 1000 years back or something.
lvsxy808 said:
Utter nonsense. No such thing was ever confirmed or even hinted at.



Do you know what is utter nonsense, YOU. You call yourself a fan, why don't you get the hell outta here and go to a babylon5 area or something. Here's your proof. Straight from StarTrek.com Episode 24 from season 6 called Time's Orphan. O'Brien is reunited with his wife, Keiko, and their two children. But during a celebratory picnic on a nearby planet, eight-year-old Molly falls into a vortex of swirling energy. When the rest of the crew arrives to help, they determine Molly slipped through a time portal that sent her back 300 years, to a time when the planet of Bajor was uninhabited. They reactivate the portal and transport her out, but their calculations are off by a decade. When Molly materializes on the transporter pad, she is an 18-year-old woman.

Did you notice that 300 years earlier the planet was uninhabited? Sorry i said 1000 years ago but i figured some fan might correct me in an appropriate fashion not be a dick about it. Sincerely Shatastophic.
I'm afraid you're wrong on this one. The events of "Time's Orphan" took place on the Bajoran colony of Golana, not the planet of Bajor.
There is nothing to suggest that Bajorans did not originate from Bajor, and by all accounts have existed on Bajor for thousands of years (the ancient city of B'hala itself is over 20,000 years old).
 
You seriously think that was me being unpleasant? You're gonna have a rough life if you're that oversensitive.
 
If my memory is correct, in "The Reckoning" the guy who found the tablet that had something about the Emissary on it said it was 30,000 years old.

Robert
 
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