Spoilers Is Q stuck in 2024?

[Skyshadow]

As we have seen in episodes 4 and 5, his powers do not seem to be working. I am speculating that they may actually be in decline as he hit Picard in episode 2 and we have not actually seen a lot beyond him vanishing and appearing and the last few episodes do not even show him doing this.

He is still able to infiltrate lots of locations, build medicines and do a lot of interfering, but his comments about time abandoning him make me wonder if he is stuck in 2024 now.

If this is the case is this a crucial part of the plot or is it a bi-product? Is it related to the timeline being changed or is this why he tried to change it in the first place?

So many questions that seem like they have been added in for a reason, but I am uncertain what purpose seeing Q without his powers serves. The only connections I can see are that he had his powers taken away the episode after introducing the Federation to The Borg, he interferes again with The Borg and similarly seems to have a reduction in his powers and I am curious if this is related.

If so what does the future hold for Q now being stuck in 2024, will he need to return to the present with Picard, perhaps performing the calculations instead of the Borg Queen and live his life as a mortal or will he be left in 2024?

 

[NCC-73515]

The change in the timeline affects the Q as well, which is why Q is very invested in correcting it. He hit Picard like Will Smith would because he himself is threatened and he lost his patience with Picard who didn't understand. My wild theory is that humanity needs to be good, they need to evolve positively, so that they can become the Q, and if humanity goes down the confederation path, they won't evolve, and the Q will vanish

 

[Timofnine]

Q is not stuck in 2024… we are all now stuck with Q in the Q continuum in the far future, well beyond the 24th century of Picard or even the far future of Discovery. Humanity has gone beyond All Good Things…

Maybe the latest series of Picard is a representation of the far future of the Star Trek universe where humanity has transcended/evolved in to the Q continuum.

Star Trek Picard is now the Q and the Grey rebooted?

Weapons kill, hurt and are oh so very real in the Q continuum.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

For whatever it’s worth, it was either Sir Patrick or John de Lancie (sorry my memory is a bit shaky here) who said that this is the last time Jean-Luc encounters Q. This could mean many things, of course.

 

[gweeps]

I think it's telling that we learn in Discovery's 4th season that the Federation has had no contact with the Q Continuum in 600 years - which does give a leeway of about 100 years, but still this info is probably significant, especially if the Q we know best ceases to interact with humanity for whatever reason.

 

[Timofnine]

I think it's telling that we learn in Discovery's 4th season that the Federation has had no contact with the Q Continuum in 600 years - which does give a leeway of about 100 years, but still this info is probably significant, especially if the Q we know best ceases to interact with humanity for whatever reason.

Maybe the Watcher’s told them to go away?

 

[gweeps]

Maybe the Watcher’s told them to go away?

You mean the aliens behind the Supervisors.

 

[Timofnine]

You mean the aliens behind the Supervisors.

Are they aliens?

 

[Alexander Corrino]

I think the answer to “who hired The Watcher” is the answer to not only one but several plot points.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Are they aliens?

Probably.

 

[Timofnine]

Probably.

It’s just that they could be an omnipotence, species, intelligence or sentience from an inter dimensional realm outside of our perceived reality, living side by side us in another layer of our onion skin like universe/multiverse, living in a frequency wavelength just outside of the spectrum that human’s and other species can’t sense or perceive. This would have meant that technically they are native to our world too and not alien, kinda, but we just can’t see them… like ghosts. Or maybe they live in the mycelial network and travel around the universe that way with spore drives instead of feet? Subspace dwellers perhaps? Maybe they are actually Tardegrades who obviously are a hyper intelligent microscopic collective consciousness in my head canon. Maybe Geordie Laforge could help? He could fine tune his visor (sorry, he has the new eye’s now, but looked cooler in the visor) to the Watchers frequency just like he has done in the past to help him see things out of our visual range. He also helped to do something similar in a different way in Times Arrow with those tripod things that are normally used as transporter pattern enhancer’s on away missions when there is stormy weather or atmospheric anomalies so that we could see those nasty glowing aliens?

it’s a shame that Picard didn’t take Geordie Laforge along on this mission as part of his motley crew, I think that he would have been a great help. Speaking of which, Diana Troi could have helped with sensing the aliens presence and she would have been able to tell if the alien/intelligence was lying or not, probably….

 

[Llywela]

it’s a shame that Picard didn’t take Geordie Laforge along on this mission as part of his motley crew, I think that he would have been a great help. Speaking of which, Diana Troi could have helped with sensing the aliens presence and she would have been able to tell if the alien/intelligence was lying or not, probably….

Picard didn't get to choose the team for this mission at all. There were a bunch of ships ranged around the Borg anomaly when Stargazer self-destructed, and when Q extracted Picard from that moment, he also pulled out anyone aboard those ships with whom Picard had some kind of relationship, which is why Picard ended up with the particular team he got. Neither Geordi nor Deanna was there to be sent along for the ride.

 

[Timofnine]

Picard didn't get to choose the team for this mission at all. There were a bunch of ships ranged around the Borg anomaly when Stargazer self-destructed, and when Q extracted Picard from that moment, he also pulled out anyone aboard those ships with whom Picard had some kind of relationship, which is why Picard ended up with the particular team he got. Neither Geordi nor Deanna was there to be sent along for the ride.

Sorry, my mistake. I need to try to learn to follow the story a bit better and remember things like this so I don’t go off on a tangent. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Finn]

Picard didn't get to choose the team for this mission at all. There were a bunch of ships ranged around the Borg anomaly when Stargazer self-destructed, and when Q extracted Picard from that moment, he also pulled out anyone aboard those ships with whom Picard had some kind of relationship, which is why Picard ended up with the particular team he got. Neither Geordi nor Deanna was there to be sent along for the ride.

What if Worf was with them...or Deanna? The Confederation Picard would have seen them as Savages.

 

[Llywela]

What if Worf was with them...or Deanna? The Confederation Picard would have seen them as Savages.

I mean, we've never met Confederation Picard, our Picard took his place, so that wouldn't have been a problem. At least, not the problem. Deanna could pass as human anyway, she'd just have to restrain herself from mentioning her empathic powers or Betazed origins. Worf would have been in much the same predicament as Elnor, in danger from everyone who wasn't just dropped into the alternate timeline. But it's a moot point, since neither of them was there to make the switch.