Q

somuj · 20-04-2023 8:02pm #1

The Q are human.

Or what humans become. Human evolution turns us into them.

The obsession with picard was the first stage of Q-ness.

Time is relative to Q

AMKC · 21-04-2023 5:29pm

The same was said of the Borg and now they are

No more

Bobtheman · 21-04-2023 6:08pm

Is Q dead?

TheValeyard · 22-04-2023 12:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120504645#Comment_120504645

Death is a matter of perspective.

Mav11 · 22-04-2023 12:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120507151#Comment_120507151

True. Data was dead and now is not.

somuj · 22-04-2023 3:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120504645#Comment_120504645

Your thinking is linear.

Mav11 · 22-04-2023 3:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120504645#Comment_120504645

No. Z is dead, as in Zed’s dead baby.

Bobtheman · 01-03-2024 2:04pm

He deserved his own mini series. Q

John de lancie should have been a major star but never quite made it to the A league.

Bobtheman · 01-03-2024 2:08pm

I loved when he kissed Patrick Stewart on the head in Picard and said "Even the God's have their favourite John Luc"

TheValeyard · 01-03-2024 7:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837146#Comment_121837146

A whole series of just Q. John de Lancie plays all the roles. Excluding one role played by Jeffery Combs

JayRoc · 02-03-2024 10:40am

Back in the early 90s, I was part of a group of fans who brought John De Lancie over to Ireland to appear at a small convention we were running in Dublin City.

He was a ridiculously nice man in person, even to 14-year old me. Definitely one of the good guys.

McFly85 · 02-03-2024 11:07am

Q is one of the all time great characters, love his TNG episodes!

I would’ve really liked to have some episodes where we could have seen the more malevolent Q that the rest of the solar system despises though. Would have been a perfect fit for Voyager, him toying with Janeway, dangling a quick trip home in front of her.

whomitconcerns · 02-03-2024 11:20am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121840877#Comment_121840877

But q was in voyager?

McFly85 · 02-03-2024 11:34am

Oh yeah I know, I just thought the Q episodes in Voyager were terrible - sort of felt like rejected TNG episodes that were repurposed for Voyager. The first one wasn’t the worst attempt at bringing him back but the second was dreadful, and there really was no reason why they shouldn’t have been sent home immediately after the end of it!

Think it would have been better to see a Q that saw voyager as an opportunity for his unique brand of torment instead of getting some episodes where the Q can’t manage without some help from humans.

JayRoc · 02-03-2024 2:04pm

Q Who was the closest I can think of to that kind of malevolence .

He essentially murdered a number of the Enterprise D's crew (by bringing them into contact with the Borg for no reason other than mickey-measuring with Picard) and also led to, what, tens of thousands of deaths at Wolf 359 ?

It was hard for me to view the character in the same light hearted way after that

TheValeyard · 02-03-2024 2:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121841370#Comment_121841370

I thought Q was actually warning them. Wasnt that cube or another already on its way to Earth?

JayRoc · 02-03-2024 2:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121841493#Comment_121841493

As far as I remember it was a case of "you probably would have run into them sooner or later, but..."

AMKC · 02-03-2024 3:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121841493#Comment_121841493

Yes he was and yes it was as far as I know.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121841370#Comment_121841370

"He essentially murdered a number of the Enterprise D's crew (by bringing them into contact with the Borg for no reason other than mickey-measuring with Picard) and also led to, what, tens of thousands of deaths at Wolf 359 ?"

It was bad strategy and arrogants that got all them killed not Q. It would have been a lot more had Q not warned Humanity.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121840877#Comment_121840877

"Would have been a perfect fit for Voyager, him toying with Janeway, dangling a quick trip home in front of her."

He did dangle a quick trip home for Voyager in front of Janeway do.

McFly85 · 02-03-2024 3:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121841594#Comment_121841594

In the first episode, yeah. The second episode, where voyager literally saves the collective and Janeway becomes Qs sons godmother, he doesn’t bother to send them home as a thank you. Ridiculous!