Does the Q exist across all multi-verses?

[tim0122]

I don't think this has ever been explained in Trek (maybe there's a suggested answer in Tapestry), but do we think the Q (or beings like them) exist across all multi-verses, or is there a Q for each one? For example, is there DeLancie Q for each alternate reality or would the one DeLancie Q span all realities?

 

[The Wormhole]

Yes

 

[at Quark's]

This is just my opinion and speculation.

I see the Q as existing across parallel universes (i.e. there's one version of 'our' Q that can see all parallel realities).

I've come to understand that there is one story where the Q continuum is aware of an even mightier species, the 'them'. A species that created all these realities and timelines simply to be amused by it, and that may erase those realities the moment they're no longer amused by them.

In other words, us (or pretty much an analogy of us).

In that sense, I think the Q have 'trans-dimensional' awareness (access to the complete set of 'Star Trek' realities), but not 'outside-dimensional' awareness' (access to our universe), the way we do. For them, the original TOS timeline and Kelvin timeline both exist, parallel. They may even know that the Kelvin timeline is a 'child branch' from the TOS timeline because of Nero traveling back in time. But they don't know the TOS timeline is chronologically the original timeline in our universe and came approximately 30 years before the Kelvin timeline as they don't have access to that.

In other words, they are (one of) the highest species inside the system, we are (one of) the lowest species on the meta-level beyond that.

At least, that's my pet theory. Not that it's terribly useful for anything, but e.g. speculating about exact warp speeds isn't, either

 

[BillJ]

Why not?

 

[Ronald Held]

I see Q able to perceive anywhere in the multiverse, as well as go there. The Q continuum could have access to anywhere, as well. Petdee not to speculate on "Them".

 

[locborg]

I don’t think so. Q always presented himself as some kind of extradimensional, almighty being. But in the end, he was probably more of a showman than a truly godlike entity. There were too many instances where he was stripped of his powers—powers that weren’t even clearly defined in the first place.

I see him more as a cosmic scammer, manipulating his subjects with psychological and holographic tricks.

For all we know, he might not have been capable of time travel at all. Maybe he used some big ass ship equipped with advanced holo-projectors and top-of-the-line transporter technology to deceive the crew of the Enterprise—especially Picard—into believing that humanity was on trial (twice). He always came across as a deceiver.

And then there’s the thing that Q never interacted with the Mirror Universe. Plus, no one except Picard had any memory of the events in All Good Things… Kinda suspicious…

 

[The Wormhole]

There were too many instances where he was stripped of his powers

He was stripped of his powers twice. Deja Q, which was because the rest of the Continuum banished him, and season 2 of Picard, which was because he was dying.

 

[fireproof78]

He was stripped of his powers twice. Deja Q, which was because the rest of the Continuum banished him, and season 2 of Picard, which was because he was dying.

Plus the whole Q civil war and Janeway and company fighting Robert Q Lee.

 

[The Wormhole]

Plus the whole Q civil war and Janeway and company fighting Robert Q Lee.

Q wasn't really stripped of his powers there, he was just fighting someone equally as powerful as him and therefore on an even platform.

 

[fireproof78]

Q wasn't really stripped of his powers there, he was just fighting someone equally as powerful as him and therefore on an even platform.

Right but experienced by multiple people so definitely not a massive trick by Q.

Sorry, should have been clearer.

 

[Qonundrum]

If a being exists in multiple universes, why not others? There's nothing that says "Bring in a character into another universe and every universe instantly shatters as a result."

 

[fireproof78]

If a being exists in multiple universes, why not others? There's nothing that says "Bring in a character into another universe and every universe instantly shatters as a result."

Except Lazarus.

 

[Qonundrum]

Except Lazarus.

LOL, good point! (It's such a messy little story, though.)

 

[The Wormhole]

Except Lazarus.

What of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?

 

[Toril Toran]

It’s just my opinion but I think there is only one Q Continuum.
Can you imagine the chaos Q could cause if he were in every dimension/timeline?

Would the Continuum even allow that?
If there were a Continuum in every dimension, wouldn’t they inevitably try to destroy each other until there was only one Continuum?

It makes more sense to me that there is only one Continuum, perhaps in a dimension of its’ own.
These Q have the ability to go anywhere in time and space; even visit other dimensions, perhaps even other timelines within other dimensions.

Okay. Now my head is starting to hurt…

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It’s just my opinion but I think there is only one Q Continuum.
Can you imagine the chaos Q could cause if he were in every dimension/timeline?

Would the Continuum even allow that?
If there were a Continuum in every dimension, wouldn’t they inevitably try to destroy each other until there was only one Continuum?

It makes more sense to me that there is only one Continuum, perhaps in a dimension of its’ own.
These Q have the ability to go anywhere in time and space; even visit other dimensions, perhaps even other timelines within other dimensions.

Okay. Now my head is starting to hurt…

It's in the name IMO.

It's the "Q Continuum."

There isn't multiple Q factions across Timelines / Parallel Universes IMO / Dimensions.

It's one set of Q, that can view ALL Timelines / Parallel Universe / Dimensions / Universes / etc.



Remember, even Q told Picard that "It matters to me. Q : You matter to me. Even gods have favorites, Jean-Luc. And you've always been one of mine."

Q could've picked ANY JLP from any Parallel Universe / Timeline, but he picked the one we've been watching.

Even across bodies when he jumped from his original Biological body to his new "Synth Golem" Body.

Even Q recogized it as JLP.

That means, IMO, that he can recognize the soul and individual identity of a person, regardless of which Quantum Reality that they come from.

Q's are able to distinguish a person down to the individual level, even across Alternate Dimensions / Parallel Universes.

Edit #1)

Spoiler: ST:PIC S2 Spoilers

Q told Picard in ST:PIC S2 that "But Tallinn always dies in every timeline. This is the only one where she meets Renee"
That's pretty much enough evidence/proof that there is only one set of Q who is basically All Knowing/Seeing

 

[Kor]

Agreed that reality itself would probably be pretty chaotic if there were multiple Q Continuums (Continua?)

I thought the Q Continuum was in its very own reality or "plane of existence," separate from other universes/quantum realities/whatever you want to call them.

Now, did the Q evolve from a less-advanced species? Q (the one we usually see) did say in VOY The Q and the Grey, "The Q didn't come into existence. The Q have always existed." But I thought there was dialog in some other episodes indicating that they developed into their current state over a really long time period. If that's the case, which universe did they start in? And if it's possible for one corporeal species to evolve into the Q, then that also raises the possibility of the same thing happening to multiple species in multiple universes. I'll just go with Q's statement that they've always existed.

Kor

 

[Frontis]

Well, it's not a secret that I don't like Q.
In Picard he said, he's gonna die and even that was lie...
I don't trust him but probably he exists in all universes.
He is a tricky and mighty alien but I don't think he is some god though.

 

[Ovation]

Q is, ultimately, Trek’s version of Loki (or any other trickster god in various mythologies). So who’s to say whether he is in all multiverses? Certainly not him. Far too unreliable a narrator.

 

[at Quark's]

Petdee not to speculate on "Them".

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I don’t think so. Q always presented himself as some kind of extradimensional, almighty being. But in the end, he was probably more of a showman than a truly godlike entity. There were too many instances where he was stripped of his powers—powers that weren’t even clearly defined in the first place.

I see him more as a cosmic scammer, manipulating his subjects with psychological and holographic tricks.

For all we know, he might not have been capable of time travel at all. Maybe he used some big ass ship equipped with advanced holo-projectors and top-of-the-line transporter technology to deceive the crew of the Enterprise—especially Picard—into believing that humanity was on trial (twice). He always came across as a deceiver.

And then there’s the thing that Q never interacted with the Mirror Universe. Plus, no one except Picard had any memory of the events in All Good Things… Kinda suspicious…

I sure agree that he does have this 'showman' vibe, but my headcanon is that Q is part of a relatively 'young' 'higher species', trying to amuse himself outside of the continuum, where ennui has set in (despite some of their own claims of having always existed, they also have references to a 'new era' that presumably began slightly over 10 millennia ago). Other 'higher species' members give off a much 'older' vibe such as the Organians or perhaps even the Traveler.