Can Q be stopped?

[kirkfan]

The Q don't do a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Duke Ellington?

 

[tharpdevenport]

Who knows what forces around their capabilities that have evil intents, the Q are keeping at bay. Who knows what power vacuum will be filled when they are gone.

And for every malevoilent Q, there's probably at least one out there with good intent doing good things.

Actually, it's only the 'rogue' Q we've seen who are actually doing anything at all. Remember Death Wish? Most of the Q are so bored with immortality that they literally don't do anything.

So if the entire Q continuum managed to disappear, there would be no power vacuum left in their wake - only the lack of damage being done by rogues like 'our' Q. The Q, in general, aren't keeping the universe safe - they're just sitting around and doing nothing. Because from their perspective, it's all been done.

The thing is -- we really don't know. We've seen an incredibly small fraction of Q. We know nothing about all of them. Maybe the citizen Q does nothing, but the higher ups? The people who still have to keep the Q safe (if we go with them only having advanced tech', which would still leave them vulnerable to other similarly advanced races)? And so forth. They are perhaps one of the most open-ended races to ever be shown, simply because of what they can do, what they may have done, and what they may do in the future.

Obviously it's not all been done other Lance's Q would not have strayed.

So much to explore, so much simply left by the way side for scenes of him getting slapped by Sisko, and in bed with Janeway. How to Blow Your Load Wastefully 101.

 

[kirkfan]

There is a mystery about how the Q came to be and I believe it is because they want it that way. They don't want the other species to know how far away they are from the power of the Q.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The thing is -- we really don't know. We've seen an incredibly small fraction of Q. We know nothing about all of them.

We also don't know how many there are.

In any case, Quinn was adamant that the entire Q race was like we saw in "Death Wish". If there were any sizable portion of them who weren't, he would have said something about it - and he probably wouldn't have wanted to leave the continuum in the first place.

 

[kirkfan]

The thing is -- we really don't know. We've seen an incredibly small fraction of Q. We know nothing about all of them.

We also don't know how many there are.

In any case, Quinn was adamant that the entire Q race was like we saw in "Death Wish". If there were any sizable portion of them who weren't, he would have said something about it - and he probably wouldn't have wanted to leave the continuum in the first place.

Maybe the Q are like the changelings, most of the time in a pool of goo...

 

[BeatleJWOL]

The Q don't do a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Duke Ellington?

DuQ Ellington. Q took the form of a trombone playing Klingon to screw with Worf and Riker at the same time!

 

[kirkfan]

The Q don't do a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Duke Ellington?

DuQ Ellington. Q took the form of a trombone playing Klingon to screw with Worf and Riker at the same time!

True, Worf hates Jazz, he said so to Riker himself.