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Isn't it pretty early on though when he's getting visions or whatever from the wormhole? Like i never got that far in DS9 because I don't like space station star trek but i'm pretty sure i saw that
It's set up from the very first episode. Personally I like it and I always thought the prophet scenes were done really well, with them talking to him through his memories. Gave me chills sometimes
From what I remember, it starts out with him becoming the emissary by coincidence. He just happens to find the wormhole, the prophets in the wormhole decide that he is not a threat and he is chosen by the Bajorans as their prophet for this reason.
At the last season, they change Sisko from this everyman to actually he is the chosen one that we raised from birth for this very purpose. Suddenly he is the chosen son of one of the wormhole aliens, and I get so mad at chosen one narratives, find them so lazy and all too common.
Coincidence is a twisty thing when it comes to the wormhole aliens
Fair enough. They are certainly set up as just another life form the Federation encounters in the pilot, and I think they could have been handled better, if at all. The show especially got off the rails for me with the introduction of the pah wraiths.
I liked the pah-wraiths for how they allowed Kai Winn to complete her villain arc. She's the best villain in Trek imo.
Kai Winn is such a believable, realistic villain. We all know real Kai Winns in our personal lives at one point or another. That's what makes her so scary.
i hate her so much. they did a great job
Yeah, that was... some disappointing writing. If I had to punch it up a bit, maybe Sisko was always just a guy, but then timeline shenanigans erase him from existence and the Prophets are like, "Hey, that was the one guy who explained this linear shit in a way we actually understood, bring him back!" and they end up grafting him onto every timeline. Like, Sisko retroactivly becomes the only fixed point in the whole Star Trek timeline
You already outdid the ds9 writers here.
thank you