10 Times Star Trek Foretold The Apocalypse
6. Wrap The Rapture; Wreck The Reckoning
Prophets and a Celestial Temple, it's all a little pagh'tem'far-out! 'Foretelling' of any sort wasn't exactly in the wheelhouse of the atemporal wormhole aliens either, especially 'before' the Emissary stepped in to explain linearity. Nonetheless, the Prophets never held back on their prophecies, which presumably they did all at once.
In Rapture, one Bantaca spire and some dodgy electricals caused the Sisko to have visions every which way from a 26-hour Sunday. He found B'hala, but he also spotted those much talked about locusts from other works. Bajor would be destroyed unless it 'stood alone'. With Deep Space Nine the new master of serialisation, Star Trek was now foreseeing itself. As Robert Hewitt Wolfe noted in Cinefantastique, vol. 29, no. 6/7, by that point, the writers already knew what the swarm heading towards Cardassia was all about.
And now for Shabren's Fifth Prophecy! This one's your classic good versus evil, Prophet versus Pah-wraith with the future of Bajor hanging in the balance — a reckoning, if you will. There will be "a thousand years of peace" if the former wins. If the latter wins, not even the gods only know. Also, someone interrupted the battle with chronitons. Ada-mi? I never! The apocalypse will have to wait!