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Like the fact that he's a chaos spreading Draconequus.
Why was Q scared of Guinan?
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I read somewhere once (maybe the TNG Companion?) that the plan for Guinan was originally to reveal that she too was a being of immense power. Then someone realised she'd have to leave immediately after being discovered since it'd completely ruin the show otherwise, and the idea was dropped.
Just a very naughty boy.
This is great. Any cartoonists here? Seems a perfect companion to the excellent Chief O'Brien at Work strip...
Q: Make me dinner, sweetie.
Guinan: Snap your own damn fingers.
Well, that's silly. What would Wesley and Kes even have to talk about?
While I always went with the idea that it was really something brought up and then soon dropped by the writers and producers, I like to think that it was because Guinan knew many secrets about the Q, including their actual weaknesses. Guinan holding up her hands when she squared off against Q was just an El-Aurian defensive reflex, even if it was a futile one, IMO (some people will still fight when hopelessly outmatched, even if they know they don't stand a snowball's chance in hell).
I kinda like the idea that Guinan was Q's last Vash. Picard can't be the first humanoid Q took an interest in. Guinan also seemed to have an idea what Q had in mind in that episode, maybe the Q previously "Tested" the El-Aurians as they were developing their extrasensory abilities, took a fancy to Guinan, and exposed them to the Borg.
Now I really want that novel to exist. Has there ever been a novel that covered the Borg destruction of the El-Aurians?
Now I really want that novel to exist. Has there ever been a novel that covered the Borg destruction of the El-Aurians?
"So they half-heartedly turned you into a superbeing because they weren't sure where your storyline was going, too?"
"Yep."
Well that book I mentioned earlier, Vendetta by Peter David, explored this - at least at some level. It's been sooooo long since I read it, I can't recall the specifics. But Picard, Guinan, and the Borg were the main players.
I had thought that the echo of Gunman had accumulated s lot of information on the Q continuum, which Q would not want any mortal to know.
This would have been a great plot twist.
Ah... So she was his ex knew it.Nah. The hand gestures Guinan and Q made were just alien equivalents of flipping the bird.
It's also possible that Guinan was Q's last Picard-like fascination and he constantly messed with her, but then at some point Guinan successfully went over his head and got the other Q to intervene and that made Q hate her forever.
Or, building off that idea, perhaps Guinan had some sort of strong relationship with a different Q, who liked her so much s/he granted Guinan some sort of defense against the more naughty Q.
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