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** Odo lampshades this in the episode 'The Reckoning', pointing out that Bajoran prophecies have a way of coming true, even it is not in the way people expected (case in point, the episode 'Destiny' from the third season).
** On the flip side, the Bajorans, particularly Kira, often talk about how they have "faith" and wonder how the humans live without it (humans in the Star Trek future generally not being very religious). However, when your "gods" live in a wormhole you can drive ships through, regularly send you accurate prophecies, and even destroy entire fleets of enemy ships to protect your planet, you're not really practicing faith - their deity is practically a scientific law, which calls into question the soundness of the logic underlying Kira's lectures on the subject.
*** Although this is covered somewhat in the episode about the controversy surrounding the school on Deep Space 9. Some of the Bajorans want the Wormhole and its inhabitants referred to only as the "Celestial Temple" and "the Prophets", while Keiko just as stubbornly insists on calling it "the Wormhole" and "the Wormhole aliens". While the Wormhole's inhabitants are factually known to exist, the Bajorans have faith that they're ''divine'', as opposed to merely being an alien species.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Q invokes this trope when talking about how drearily dull Earth has become lately.
{{quote| '''Q:''' Oh don't get me wrong, a thousand years ago it had character. [[Rule of Three|Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Watergate...]]}}
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