Prophets and the Borg

[Mark]

I had a thought.

It was the debacle at Wolf 359, the loss of his ship and wife that led the Emissary to Bajor. If the Borg never made it to Federation space, the events at DS9 never would have happened as needed.

Do you think the Prophets used the Borg to "guide" Sisko to his destiny? How far do you think they really went to make things happen as they needed them too?

[Mikey]

It could as easily be said that - from the prophets' POV - the plan was already in place and either would use the Borg in the future, or went back to involve Sisko after observing what the Borg did. Remember, the prophets aren't constrained to view (and interact with) time in the one-way, 1-D manner which we are.

[Mark]

True, but without a bit of control to "nudge" Sisko at just the right moments, they would have no way to control his decisions.

[Mikey]

Yes, but what I'm saying is that they didn't necessarily manipulate the Borg into pushing Sisko toward them - they might have chosen Sisko after seeing what the Borg would do to him (on their own) in his future.

[Mark]

Huh, interesting take. So your hypothisising that they saw that he'd end up as the CO of DS9 as a result of the Borg, so they had Sara seduce Joseph to make the man they saw half "prophet".

[Reliant121]

Yes, but what I'm saying is that they didn't necessarily manipulate the Borg into pushing Sisko toward them - they might have chosen Sisko after seeing what the Borg would do to him (on their own) in his future.

From what I remember, The prophets implanted the seed of Sisko in the form of one of them being Jennifer Sisko....I don't really think they needed anyone to push him to them, he was already on borrowed time before he returned.

[Graham Kennedy]

I see no reason to think they had anything to do with it.

There's a million and one things that could have gone a different way and set Sisko down some other path. It gets silly if we assume that the Prophets are behind them all.

[Mark]

But would Sisko have reacted the same way if say a year later the Saratoga was lost to a spatial anomoly? We can't know.