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Very good questions, all. Unfortunately, the answer to the question is that, in the beginning of the series, TPTB were leaning towards the "they're just a bunch of aliens that the Bajorans worship and the Federation will have to be respectful" explanation. So none of those questions were probably even asked let alone alone answered.
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"Which raises the question: why is the other end where it is, far away from stars? Is it just the necessary yet embarrassing other end of a Prophet digestive system? Is there some crucial function to the Temple having two doors? Is somebody in Gamma important to the Prophets?"
Could be a good lead in question to a follow up DS9 story (not that we'll likely ever see something official).
Why did the Prophet's allow the war to happen? Couldn't they have simply closed the other end, or moved it away from the Dominion? If Sisko were to come back he might have some explaining to do along those lines. Perhaps they thought it was important for Bajor to face the lessons of the war....
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Without the wormhole, how much attention would Bajor have attracted?
Also consider that, as a result of contact and war with the Dominion, Bajor is now one of the more important worlds in the quadrant, and her greatest enemy has been vanquished, perhaps forever.
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Yes, Ensign Ro, was the first Bajoran seen on Trek...
I wondered that too, a long time ago - especially in Season 2, with the Skreeans... why Bajor? Why Idran? Again, this could be explained by Sisko actually being the first to introduce linear time to them.
So as was mentioned above, everytime they stuck their hand out they didn't know when and where it would happen, to us it would look like centuries had passed...
So the two ends of the wormhole could have been anchored BECAUSE Sisko, introduced them to linear time... BECAUSE then they would need a connection between these two quadrants for Odo to pass through, for the ensuing war - but again here comes all the messy temporal stuff - these things... the wormhole actually being anchored in those two systems it being there AT ALL was a result of Sisko... and linear time.
My head hurts...
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Of course, when Ro was introduced, they were the "Bajora", not the "Bajorans."
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