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[Andrew MacLean]

"The Prophets" seemed to lack an understanding of linear time, but they do both believe in and promote the conditions for change. The only way in which you can talk sensibly about change is in some sort of framework of time. Indeed it seemed in later episodes that the Prophets used their "state of being" as a way to challenge Sisco's slavish dependence on a rather awkward and outmoded (even in our age) understanding of time.

That they lived in a "wormhole" is interesting. A number of Science fiction writers have played with this theoretical anomaly in space and time. Wormholes were posited by Einstein as potential short cuts from one point of folded space to a remote point, enabling the traveler to make the journey faster than light could travel, without any of the distortions of their time lines.

It is partly to test this theory that the particle accelerator in Switzerland has been constructed and sub atomic particles will be driven into each other at closing speeds of the order of the speed of light.

More than that the Bajorans have a strong sense of history. Again, history depends upon an awareness of time.

The great 20th century contribution to philosophy was the emergence of an understanding of time as a variable and not a constant.

John, I am not sure about Romulan Ale, but I do think that there is a brewery close to where I live that makes rather nice Scottish Ale.

[Lynn White]

Well talking about the Prophets, it did rather strange to me that such an advanced race could not actually understand the concept of linear time. After all, we can postulate what it would be like to live in one or two dimensions.

ST writers seemed to want it both ways. They liked the idea of a race that could not understand linear time but never did the prophets once spoil the plot line by telling Sisco and others what was going to happen!

And of course, time is variable. Einstein only had to wait for a No4 bus in the freezing rain on a dark and stormy night to understand the strange effects of the time space continuum!

Does anyone know what Romulan ale tastes like?

Lynn

[John Smith]

Green. That's good enough, isn't it?

Andrew, hope the Scottish Ale isn't green. More of a golden colour, I suspect.

[Andrew MacLean]

John! You have been and sampled the brew!

Yes golden, tending to brown. Unlike the Scandanavians, however, they hve managed to resist the temptation to put Rapsberries in it.

We have benefited greatly from the "Real Ale" movement that started in england and has influenced the development of new brewries north of the border.

I have a friend who is a Roman Catholic Priest in the order of preachers (Dominican) who has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Scotland by its specialist brewries and their product. he is now working on distillaries!

Andrew

[Lynn White]

Ahhh but does he expect junior priests to jump through holes in the ice to rescue bottles of beer, that is the question? (I love that advert, though actually I can never remember the make of beer, which is a tad counter productive I would think hehe!)

Romulan Ale is BLUE, John.... have you had your colour vision tested lately?

[Andrew MacLean]

The Dominicans are always characatured as the Inquisitors, so he might!

By the way I am colour blind, but then one man in four is, while only one woman in twenty. That blessed X chromosone again!

Andrew

[John Smith]

Romulan Ale is BLUE, John.... have you had your colour vision tested lately?

Oops!

I couldn't remember seeing it as green or blue. My visual memory told me it was blue, but I'm sure I distinctly remember a conversation... "but it's GREEN!".

Maybe that's because it was supposed to be blue!

[Andrew MacLean]

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[John Smith]

[Lynn White]

Bah!!

Now Cardassian Kanard... thats a REAL drink!