Missing Tears of the Prophets

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2003-11-27 12:13am

During the occupation of Bajor the Cardassians stole 9 Orbs.

Later in the DS9 series some of the Orbs were returned.

Are all Orbs now accounted for?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-11-27 04:44am

I don't think so, I think they ditched most of the Orb stuff when they realised stories about the Prophets weren't the thrillers they thought.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2003-11-27 05:11am

Some of the Bajoran episodes were good, like the 3-parter at the beginning of season 2. That had one orb reference, and it must have lasted a minute (and the end result was seeing Kira partially naked

). If all "orb" episodes had Kira taking her clothes off, I'm sure they would have thrilled the audience. Too bad that's the only good orb and bajoran episode(s) I can think of.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-11-27 06:09pm

AFAIR The Bjorans have had all the Orbs returned to them. The last was purchased by the Grand Negus and from them to the Bjornans. Though this all happened in on of the books, it was a good book. We got to see the Ferengi Fleet in action, kinda.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-11-27 07:27pm

Negative, as of the Avatar books(presuming we accept those) only four orbs are possessed by Bajor, the Orb of Prophecy, Time, one that I can't remember, and Memory(memory being recovered during the course of Avatar's two books

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-11-27 11:23pm

I believe the books are non-canon. If we go by books there are 3 red ones that when brought together in Quarks Bar they open a red wormhole which destroys the station and later merges with the regular one, thus destroying the universe.

That's just one facet of the utterly bizarre DS9 Millenium series.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2003-11-28 12:49am

Which one did Sisko go recover to re-open the wormhole after Dukat closed it?

Agent R · Post by **Agent R** » 2003-11-28 12:52am

That was the Orb of the Emissary, buried in a desert on Tyree.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-11-28 12:10pm

I'm inclined to accept the Avatar series conditionally, as its not like there's going to be any additional material from DS9 episodes to draw upon, and there is actual consistency between that duology and the Section 31 book that followed.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2003-11-28 01:05pm

Gandalf wrote:I believe the books are non-canon. If we go by books there are 3 red ones that when brought together in Quarks Bar they open a red wormhole which destroys the station and later merges with the regular one, thus destroying the universe.

That's just one facet of the utterly bizarre DS9 Millenium series.

The first book was great, the second moreso but the third was just fucked IMHO.