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
The same was said of the Borg and now they are
No more
Is Q dead?
Death is a matter of perspective.
True. Data was dead and now is not.
Your thinking is linear.
No. Z is dead, as in Zed’s dead baby.
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.
I loved when he kissed Patrick Stewart on the head in Picard and said "Even the God's have their favourite John Luc"
A whole series of just Q. John de Lancie plays all the roles. Excluding one role played by Jeffery Combs
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.
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.
But q was in voyager?
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.
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
I thought Q was actually warning them. Wasnt that cube or another already on its way to Earth?
As far as I remember it was a case of "you probably would have run into them sooner or later, but..."
Yes he was and yes it was as far as I know.
"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.
"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.
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!
It was not on the way to earth.
Voyager ruined anything TNG related that it touched (except maybe Barkley)
Think it was.
Responding to the signal sent by the First Contact Borg from Archers Enterprise timeline.
Always loved Q and John De Lanci.
Oh if I had Qs powers the fun I could have and things I would do.
Love John di Lanci in anything he does.
Hate the entire concept of Q. To borrow a line by Kirk in The Final Frontier, what does a God need with a human starfleet captain, be it Picard or Janeway?
With regard to "warning" humanity about the Borg, he could have just snapped his fingers and sent the Borg back to the Delta quadrant.
Q strikes me as a real TOS remnant...one of those weird omnipotent beings that Kirk and co used to encounter. The concept isn't a fantastic fit in the later on more fleshed out universe. They made the best of it though, was rarely overused, and John did a great job as always.
Re his fascination with humanity, I think it was a case he was bound by certain rules of non interference, but often skirted these rules. At times too he'd give us a "bloody nose" at the expense of a more valuable lesson.
There were quite a few beings in TNG episodes with huge fantasy levels of power…
Where Silence Has Lease
The Douwd in Survivors
Whatever was going on in The Royale
Thats a really good description of him. A remnant from TOS.
Maybe he was made to be a bit too omnipotent? As Arthur C Clarke's Third Law states: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Instead of being a God-like being, he maybe should have been a highly advanced being?
Also an entire series where they're a pretty key concept
If you meet a Q it seems the best course of action is just to tell them to fcuk off.
Human beings evolved to wreck out planet. Why would people think further evolution to God like status would be benign.
The old testament was probably spot on. A vengeful God rocks!
