Gary Mitchell = Q?
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No, thank you.
Gary Mitchell was a regular human, a member of the Enterprise crew, and a student of Kirk's in their Academy days. Nothing to do with the Q, unless they were somehow responsible for giving him superhuman powers. However, fans have retconned Trelane, the Squire of Gothos, into a member of the Q.
Actually, the only credible explanation for the "energy barrier" surrounding the galaxy is that it's an artifact created by a godlike race. There's no way it could be a natural phenomenon, even in the context of Trek's wonky science.
Besides, the very idea of a definite "edge" to the galaxy is, as David Gerrold put it, "like trying to bisect a sneeze."
Actually, the only credible explanation for the "energy barrier" surrounding the galaxy is that it's an artifact created by a godlike race. There's no way it could be a natural phenomenon, even in the context of Trek's wonky science.
Besides, the very idea of a definite "edge" to the galaxy is, as David Gerrold put it, "like trying to bisect a sneeze."
Well nothing that came close to making him a Q at the time Kirk stopped him, remember his powers were still growing we don't know how powerful he would have ended up being.
Even if that origin for the Barrier were true outside of a book, how would that logically follow? If a chunk of the Great Wall of China hits you on the head, does that make you Chinese? Being influenced by a construct of a group doesn't make you a member of that group.
If I recall correctly, the barrier was erected to keep out a powerful entity called 0 (as in Zero) in the Greg Cox novel trilogy "The Q Continuum". An attempt to release 0 upon the galaxy was devised by a team-up of the God Entity (ST V), the energy being known as (*) (from "The Day of the Dove) and the Gorgon ("And the Children Shall Lead"). They were thwarted by Q and Picard.
about that energy barrier around the galaxy...
i also read the claims that such a thing was nonsense, and then my mind was blown when i read some news about it being discovered!
this was maybe about four years ago, i read it in some space news website. i don't have the text or links handy, you can google the news.
and maybe it was more akin to the heliosphere of our sun than an energy barrier. but still... wow, a halo structure surrounding the milky way, and recently discovered. who knows in ten more years, what with all the dark matter and dark energy? we may indeed find something else. energy barrier indeed.
He had developed extraordinary powers and was continually getting stronger, but was he a "Q"? Absolutely not. Would he have become one? No one can know for certain. Not even worth debating really. There was just not enough information, so all that would result is the debate of one wild speculation being pitted against another. Time would be better spent on a mindless video game.
