Spoilers Is it possible that there never really was a Q Continuum but only Q

Just a single Q who impersonated all the others for some reasons he kept for himself?

Could possibly explain why he never mentioned his spouse and his son in Season 2 and talked about dying alone

 

So basically the entire continuum is Michael Keaton in Multiplicity?

 

My theory is that Quinn committing suicide set off a chain of events that led to the deaths of all Q, with Q being the last to die. So by the time of S2 of Picard he was the last one left.

 

I just assumed they'd had enough of him

 

It definitely had an impact, we saw that in Voyager with their civil war.

We never really saw that Jr's birth fixed anything.

I don't think Q was alone. But it's entirely possible the continuum is extinct by Discos time considering Vance said there'd been no contact for 600 years.

 

That's possible and it took Q 100 years to die. If we go by what was said in Discovery. So maybe he had 1 or 2 more appearances before that..

 

Explain. Give more context to your question, were there evidence to indicate he was impersonating all the others???

 

I've had that theory a very long time and think it makes sense.

Every time Q is talking to other Q he's either testing humanity or talking to himself.

Oddly enough, the reverse was meant to be canon. "ENCOUNTER AT FARPOINT" was meant to be dozens of Q with one form.

 

So when DeLancie Q was talking to Corbin Bernsen Q and the shadow Q (and in both instances DeLancie Q was alone), he was actually talking to himself?

 

His spouse was out of the picture as of Q2, his son was rebellious and Q himself was ostracised from the Continuum on multiple occasions. It is hardly a surprise that he found himself on his own in the end.

 

Yep.

Mind you, this is not a canon idea from what we've seen but the idea that Q can create doppelgangers to discuss concepts is something he's shown the ability to do so.

 

So Q lost his powers on purpose and had to ask himself to have them back? I’m pretty sure Gene Roddenberry didn’t envision Q as a schizophrenic.

 

That would be have multiple personalities, not schizophrenic.

And it was certainly educational for Q.

 

Isn't there a crack theory that every single person in the entire universe is just the same time-traveling soul reincarnated with their memories wiped clean over and over, experiencing countless lifetimes that sometimes overlap?

 

That's a short story called "The Egg" by Andy Weir, the guy who wrote The Martian.

 

Sorry, not really buying this theory. First of all, why would Q even feel the need to lie about there being more Q than just him? It’s not like anyone would care about that.

 

You're so linear.

 

I'd rather not create a convoluted theory to fill in the gaps created by the writers.

Also, re: The Q extinct in the 32nd Century: if The Continuum was no more, it would be gone / inaccessible at every point in our spacetime Continuum.

 

It's also possible there's no contact because our Q was the only one interested in humanity.

 

One of DC's insane first Next Gen miniseries has the Enterprise invaded by the Continuum... which all look like John De Lancie.