O "Deus" de Edo na verdade parece ser um navio ou um navio (descrito por Maurice Hurley nas Viagens Não Autorizadas Viagens Não Autorizadas a> como um deus-máquina ") que contém vários seres transdimensionais, uma raça cuja própria dimensão se intromete dentro de um aglomerado de estrelas que por acaso contém o Edo mundo .
Dentro do episódio, Data nos oferece algumas idéias bem conclusivas sobre a natureza da divindade do Edo:
DATA : But when they were probing my thoughts, Captain, I could feel that whatever they are now, they once existed in this dimension, just as we do. Perhaps also in the same kind of "flesh and blood" form. Since then, however, they have evolved considerably further. Their present existence in mixed dimensions no doubt has advantages we do not understand...
PICARD : Then, in their earlier flesh and blood existence they could have once shared our kind of values.
DATA : The Edo share them, sir.
PICARD : Why would advanced things like that feel obliged to protect the Edo?
DATA : Perhaps because the Edo are a child-race by comparison. Possibly a race which the life forms over there "planted" here much as we now plant human colonies on Class-M planets.
Supondo que ele esteja certo, isso certamente explicaria a natureza parental do relacionamento do Edo com seu deus.