It would have been pointless for Janeway to ask Q about a quick fix home. He would've pulled out the equivilent of 'Q Prime-directive' card and that they had to find their own way home!
Q and the Gray
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Has that ever stopped anyone from asking? Janeway did ask a few people to break the temporal prime directive, and people often ask Starfleet to break the prime directive. I just asked two lesbians out, that didn't go well either.
Why? Did they beat you up and steal your wallet?
Did Q conjure an image of earth out the window in Deathwish? Or did he pull Earth into the delta quadrant briefly? Did he create a perfect replicate with billions of living breating people living on it who he then murdered seconds later just to piss off Janeayway? Did he put Voyager into earthsape, or did he fold space so that the DQ was Earthspace and not at the same time...
When you atteched strings to a gift, it's almost impossible to belive that they've all been cut... Just yesterday a telemarketer was trying to get me to accept a free quote for drains and spouting repairs.
Free quote my ass.
As long as I don't think about how my house is falling down, it isn't falling down.
They're paying for attention with fear.
Or at least trying to.
When you atteched strings to a gift, it's almost impossible to belive that they've all been cut... Just yesterday a telemarketer was trying to get me to accept a free quote for drains and spouting repairs.
Free quote my ass.
As long as I don't think about how my house is falling down, it isn't falling down.
They're paying for attention with fear.
Or at least trying to.
I'll quote you five thousand dollars for your ass.
Deal.
Now, i have a lengthy list of repairs and maintinence the new landlord is legally bound to remedy..
Now, i have a lengthy list of repairs and maintinence the new landlord is legally bound to remedy..
Damn, I wasn't really in the market for a fix-her-upper.
Still, a deal is a deal. I'll send some guys round to take a peek inside and see what needs doing.
What is flummoxing me about this episode is, if Q's band are the rebels, why are they the ones depicted wearing Union Army uniforms?
You have been programmed well. We all have I suppose.
I'm not insulting you sir, it's just that history is written by the victors, and you read that history.
Slavery and the South was how all of the entirety of America was pre civil war. 100 percent South from tip to toe. Everyone loved the slavery. It was the bees knees.
The North is who was rocking the boat who rebelled and brought in new thinking and new law, which only had the South decide to stop humouring the North into thinking that it had real power or was in charge of the country. Uppity pretentious North bit off more than it could chew thought the South.
It was the North who betrayed an America founded and run on slavery. It was the North that was going to destroy America by first a bloody awful War and second by allowing a plentiful and easily managed herdlike workforce to go to seed. It was likely that without white overmasters to whip the "negros" that they would not remember to eat or clean. Gods, and after all that, there's every chance that in the disarray of the reformation afterwards that Canada and Mexico might have spit-roasted America and taken everything that wasn't nailed down!
The "south" wasn't the south.
The South was America.
The North however was some new bastard child with weird outlandish thoughts that offended the previous generation and should know well better to shut the fuck up and respect their elders as they walked their show slaves out in civil society.
It's totally a question of assimilation.
(Please accept the irony, sarcasm and note of historical context in the body of this post, that there were people who did not know that it was wrong or even evil to think like above, but that is how important and powerful people once thought (minimum wage is slavery.) and that is why 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, not that I believe that most of the hillbillies taking arms on either side (Who could afford to buy a slave like you or I could afford to buy a Lamborghini.) knew what they were fighting for or why, just that land Barron's and Presidents pointed in a direction and told them to kill.)
I'm not insulting you sir, it's just that history is written by the victors, and you read that history.
Slavery and the South was how all of the entirety of America was pre civil war. 100 percent South from tip to toe. Everyone loved the slavery. It was the bees knees.
The North is who was rocking the boat who rebelled and brought in new thinking and new law, which only had the South decide to stop humouring the North into thinking that it had real power or was in charge of the country. Uppity pretentious North bit off more than it could chew thought the South.
It was the North who betrayed an America founded and run on slavery. It was the North that was going to destroy America by first a bloody awful War and second by allowing a plentiful and easily managed herdlike workforce to go to seed. It was likely that without white overmasters to whip the "negros" that they would not remember to eat or clean. Gods, and after all that, there's every chance that in the disarray of the reformation afterwards that Canada and Mexico might have spit-roasted America and taken everything that wasn't nailed down!
The "south" wasn't the south.
The South was America.
The North however was some new bastard child with weird outlandish thoughts that offended the previous generation and should know well better to shut the fuck up and respect their elders as they walked their show slaves out in civil society.
It's totally a question of assimilation.
(Please accept the irony, sarcasm and note of historical context in the body of this post, that there were people who did not know that it was wrong or even evil to think like above, but that is how important and powerful people once thought (minimum wage is slavery.) and that is why 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, not that I believe that most of the hillbillies taking arms on either side (Who could afford to buy a slave like you or I could afford to buy a Lamborghini.) knew what they were fighting for or why, just that land Barron's and Presidents pointed in a direction and told them to kill.)
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ACCK! I meant he was great on TNG! He was awful on Voyager AND DS9! We should have never seen him again after AGT!
Not exclusively though, he was all right on DS9 and the first VOY Q episode was awesome.
Maybe it would have been better if Voyager introduced us to another different Q from the continum instead.
ACCK! I meant he was great on TNG! He was awful on Voyager AND DS9! We should have never seen him again after AGT!
A whole new Q for a new show??
I also think the problem also was Mulgrew & Delancie are friend off camera too. I think unfortunately that chemistry of friendship came though on screen too. So Janeway & Q never truly came across at odds the way Picard/Q or even Sisko/Q did. Janeway was willing to entertain Q's actions while no other captain did.
However, Q was always a sexist pig.
I recall on TNG that he came across thinking less of Crusher & Troi than of their male counterparts. He didn't even take the job Troi did as serious.
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Well, I didn't think being the ships catsuit tester was a very important job either.
I haven't. It was little about slavery, and only partly that the South wasn't amused about tariffs forced upon it by the North. Otto von Bismarck stated
"The division of the United States into two federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the High Financial Power of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economical and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world..."
Also, the Monroe doctrine was in the way.
You sound like Apu in the episode of the Simpsons where he was almost too smart to be allowed Citizenship...
"Well there were many contributing factors that..."
"Just say "slavery"."
"Well there were many contributing factors that..."
"Just say "slavery"."
"Slavery it is, sir!"
Not surprised but having someone who is telepathic/empathic during diplomatic negotiations and/or first contact gives Picard the advantage. She can reads minds or sense emotion which can safe guard against deception. This is why Troi had to have a seat on the bridge and accompanied Picard on away mission negotiations.(I'll bet she was a hell of a poker player too due to this) Janeways biggest mistake was never taking advantage of Kes and her abilities. If she had, Voyager would have been less likely to fall victim to con-artists and thieves.
