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Warning : spoilers forStar Trek # 20!In a wild lore reveal , Star Trekjust subtly explain the lineage of Angel Falls within its universe . As a dealership , Star Trekis famously atheistic , often interrogate the nature of its various ' Supreme Being ' as simply higher lifeforms with unequaled but very apparent flaw and limit . Currently , IDW’sStar Trekseries is digging deeper into what it signify to be aStar Trekgod , including showing Captain Sisko ’s gang visiting the home of the gods , the Pleroma .
InStar Trek # 20 , Sisko guide the crew of theTheseusto the Pleroma on the asking of T’Lir . T’Lir is a phallus of the Organian species and they have requested Sisko ’s help in providing aid to the realm of the gods . Using apowerful newfangled buckle drive , the gang are able to allow for their normal world , ascending to the kingdom of the gods . However , because this woodworking plane does n’t survive in material space , the gang are transformed by their journeying - each becomes a jellyfish - like creature hang back by their own nervous system , while their ship becomes a suspiciously intimate ball of flecked wings heading toward an energy gate of homocentric rings .
TheTheseus ' appearing in the Pleroma recreate Biblical descriptions of angel . For lesson , Revelationsdescribes the throne of God being surrounded by beasts which"had each of them six wings about him ; and they were full of eyes within,“whileEzekieldescribes a visitation with Cherubim and the mien of multiple wings and bodies stud with eyes and encircled by"wheels " , as well as being with"four face apiece , and every one four wing . “This is similar to how the crew are express to transform during their journey , suggesting that inStar Treklore , these scriptural passages account contact with non - physical organism emerging from the Pleroma .
Star Trek # 20
The Star Trek dealership has been loathe to tackle the takings of organized religion , but IDW ’s Modern series is confront it in a totally unexampled elbow room .
Star Trek Strongly Implies Biblical Angels Are a Misunderstanding of Interdimensional Travel
The Theseus Crew’s Forms Within the Pleroma Show What Physical Beings Become on an Immaterial Plane
In late comics , the Klingon autocrat Kahless kick the bucket to war with the galaxy ’s gods . Using weapons built bythe mysterious Shapers of Sarkadesh , Kahless kill divine beingness including the Crystalline Entities and the ascended mortal Gary Mitchell . While Sisko and Worf were able to stop Kahless , his attack on the cosmic order has badly damaged the structure of the universe and caused major damage to the Pleroma . This land is a plane of existence where non - physical organism including the Q Continuum and Trelane domicile , each seemingly within their own kingdom . While Sisko has been forbidden to enter the Pleroma by the Prophets , T’Lir ’s pleas for aid have won out .
To recruit this plane of existence , Sisko ’s ship and theTheseusitself must assume forms that can exist within the Pleroma . This necessitate an initial state where the crowd are demo with multiple faces and limb , then them becoming the jellyfish - like beings , then theTheseusitself becoming a ball of wings ( covered in what could surely be interpreted as eyes.)The potent proffer of render this process is that this is what divine being go through for manifest on the material planer . Various reports of divine organism would therefore be both exact and a misunderstanding - thesearebeings from a higher level of realness , but their appearances are a result of their actual forms being incompatible with normal physical science . Like the gang , person have witness a warped and discrepant vision of the galaxy ’s ' gods . '
With multiple face , heart - studded wings , and concentrical wheels of light , the crew ’s experience participate the Pleroma seems designed to echo scriptural descriptions of angel , suggest howStar Trek ’s divinity have been misunderstood down the centuries . It ’s absolutely in line of reasoning with Gene Roddenberry ’s science - focused visual sense thatStar Trek ’s angels were never what they seemed . However , the reveal also echoes Sisko ’s conflicted feeling about his godlike masters , showing that they have more in rough-cut with the idea of ' true ' deities than theStar Trekcaptain might like .
Star Trek # 20is uncommitted now from IDW Publishing .
