The Prophets and Bajoran religion and culture are clearly DS9's greatest and glaring flaw.
Sure, at first the idea of super-aliens who live in the wormhole and are worshipped on the nearby planet as gods was a decent one. But it quickly derailed into silliness, with Sisko having visions, all too convenient interventions, and of course, prophecies, the shame of any plot that respects itself.
So here an old stone contains a prophecy about the Emissary (unsuprisingly, all the rest has little to do with him) and after some whining by Kai Winn, in the end one of the prophets possesses Kira, an evil ghost possesses Jake, and they go all Harry Potter, until Kai Winn interrupts the fight by releasing a mcguffin.
The whole affair is bad enough, with the continuous (and failing) effort to show the Bajoran religion and culture as admirable when it is simply (very) annoying being especially disappointing for a franchise which stands directly opposed to such primitiveness.
So here an old stone contains a prophecy about the Emissary (unsuprisingly, all the rest has little to do with him) and after some whining by Kai Winn, in the end one of the prophets possesses Kira, an evil ghost possesses Jake, and they go all Harry Potter, until Kai Winn interrupts the fight by releasing a mcguffin.
The whole affair is bad enough, with the continuous (and failing) effort to show the Bajoran religion and culture as admirable when it is simply (very) annoying being especially disappointing for a franchise which stands directly opposed to such primitiveness.