3 Qs about Q.

[2takesfrakes]

John de Lancey is brilliant, as Q. Just a very classy actor. I like him, alot. He's fun to watch! Q, I like alot. I just didn't like his being the totality of quasi-deities in The Next Generation. There should've been more of them. Oh, there was that one who wiped out the Husnok, whom I believe was very clear about his race - he wasn't a Q. But outside of that, I can't think of anyone else and it was very noticeable. Like the deity all religions really worshipped was actually Q ...

 

[Drone]

The talk of exceptionalism leads me to suggest that that appellation should apply to De Lancie's Q in contrast with most of the rest of the members of the Continuum. Is it inaccurate to say that our sense of them generally, not just in their representation on the series but also in books, is of a conservative if not reactionary lot, satisfied in a staid, hidebound existence, rising to a vociferous, if not fervid, level of action only when the status quo is threatened?

With few exceptions, it would seem that Q was portrayed as the species' outlier, roused to real engagement with the wider universe by whatever the nature of his true inner motivations or promptings.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

LIONS. Not loins. No-one has ever been killed by loins, though they have occasionally had difficulty walking afterward.

Have you never heard of the popular execution method 'Death by snoo-snoo?'

 

[Vandervecken]

John de Lancey is brilliant, as Q. Just a very classy actor. I like him, alot. He's fun to watch! Q, I like alot. I just didn't like his being the totality of quasi-deities in The Next Generation. There should've been more of them. Oh, there was that one who wiped out the Husnok, whom I believe was very clear about his race - he wasn't a Q. But outside of that, I can't think of anyone else and it was very noticeable. Like the deity all religions really worshipped was actually Q ...

Nagilum seemed to be pretty powerful.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

I think everything the Q ever tell someone about their true nature or motivations - and especially the extent or source of their abilities - is either an outright lie or a clever misdirection designed to test human reactions to a certain scenario.

 

[Melakon]

I think everything the Q ever tell someone about their true nature or motivations - and especially the extent or source of their abilities - is either an outright lie or a clever misdirection designed to test human reactions to a certain scenario.

I'm not so sure, especially in the case of Amanda Rogers of TNG: True Q.

She is unaware that she is the child of two Qs, and is able to cause things to happen just by thinking it, even causing Riker to be in love with her. There's more going on than simple misdirection.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Mental tricks, then.

 

[Melakon]

^ Mental tricks, then.

Well, for Riker to fall in love with her, she just needs to be female. But not necessarily all the time. She might be able to do it by being genderless.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

Oh, I didn't mean their powers are all based on misdirection. They clearly have some kind of reality warping abilities and an impressive command over matter and energy. It's just when they're explaining themselves and giving us information about what they really want and the limitations (or lack thereof) of their powers that I don't trust them.