"Death Wish" Line-by-Line

[JanewayRulz!]

QUINN: I never yielded that obligation to the Continuum. If the path I choose leads to death, what right have they to interfere?

 

[hux]

Q: He's putting his selfish wishes above the welfare of everyone else.

 

[LeadHead]

Quinn: And if I don't agree with the majority, I'm to be locked up for eternity.

 

[Catarina]

Q: You would not be confined if you were not intent on harming yourself. With your permission, Captain, I would like to call an expert on the Continuum to discuss the implications of the decision to be made.

 

[Leandar]

Janeway: Proceed.

 

[LeadHead]

Q: I call myself to the stand.

Q snaps his fingers and a second Q, exactly the same as Q appears in the witness chair.

 

[hux]

Is Q talking to himself not technically the same person talking?

Q2: Ta-da!

 

[Athena28]

Q: Thank you for coming. It's a rare honor to have someone of your reputation and accomplishment with us today.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Q2: Thank you.

 

[LeadHead]

Q: Tell me, what would be the impact of a Q suicide?

 

[Athena28]

Q2: Oh, it would be an interruption to the Continuum. It would change the very nature of Q.

 

[Catarina]

JANEWAY: Can you be more specific?

 

[Leandar]

Q2: No, because we're not even sure what the end result would be. His suicide could have all sorts of unknown consequences to the Continuum.

 

[hux]

QUINN: Precisely! It would force the Q to deal with the unknown for the first time since the New Era began. They're afraid of me because they're afraid of the unknown.

 

[Catarina]

Q: How would you characterise his remarks?

 

[JanewayRulz!]

Q2: No Q has ever tried to commit suicide. Immortality is one of the defining qualities of being a Q. By every measure of the Continuum, his remarks would have to be considered as mentally unbalanced.

 

[hux]

Q: Mentally unbalanced. And no civilised people in the universe, including the primitive Federation societies, would condone the suicide of a mentally unbalanced person.

 

[Catarina]

TUVOK: Tell me Q, can you offer any other evidence of mental instability on the part of my client?

 

[LeadHead]

Q2: What more do you need? He wants to kill himself.

 

[hux]

TUVOK: In fact, until this issue arose, he was known in the Continuum as one of your great philosophers. Is that not true?