M’Benga describes the Kherkovians as inscrutable, interdimensional beings that don’t experience space and time the way we do. They sound more and more like they could be related to the Prophets.
They sure had a concept of time on shutting out feedback about mistakes in their remedy.
who notes that the complaint is lodged out of the response period.
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I mean it has to be. Once you have factual evidence of a super-powerful species with great technology, doesn't that have to cross your mind as to the order of things around you? I have to hope some group in the Federation has to have theories about what the Q could be doing to account for behaviors in the universe. Who knows what the Q does that has an unknown side-effect to humanity. Clearly the Bajorans considered the side-effects of their eternal beings next door, at least mystically.