Nu-Q: Recast the Omnipotent!
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Milla Jovovich
(Hey, I hate Q, so I'm going forinstead of "right-for-the-part".)
Even as a joke, at least you could come up with a hot actress who is at least somewhat talented (so, no to Milla)
I don't have to do any such thing. What part of "I'm not going for 'right-for-the-part'" did you not understand?
My criteria goes as follows:
1) I hate Q, an overused, overrated, Mr. Mxyzptlk character that is one reason the TNG era of Trek fails to impress me.
2) As such, I couldn't give a flying shit who plays him.
3) Yet, if forced to choose a portrayer, I would make him a woman and cast someone I think is hot. I think Milla Jovovich is hot. I never spent a huge amount of time worrying about her acting ability.
I hope my choice is clearer this time.
Q once made the remark to Picard that if he had known he could get so worked up by women that he would have appeared in the form of a woman. Maybe with that in mind he would appear to Nu-Kirk in female form...Who has a reputation for being a ladies' man, anyway. That could offer some fun dynamics.
Q is a Human from a future in which Humanity destroyed itself and Earth due to it's alternate reality God like powers that went uncontrolled. Only Q knows what gave us the powers we weren't ready for and he is to see we avoid that and don't make the same mistakes twice. Spock and John Delancie or whoever together. If I think about it some more I can make it alot more complex.
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totally. i love simon in the guardian and the mentalist. he can be witty and wry in a seriuos situation and pull it off, and he plays a serious character well. certainly he could put them together.
damian lewis could do it too. he can play a quirky-yet-serious guy.
Agreed, I was going to propose his name. I know we've seen too much of him as Doctor Who (well I say too much, I mean, barely enough. Well I say barely enough, ...) but I'm sure he can handle the sinister part just as well.
See the end of Family of Blood. He can definitely pull off the "I'm an infinitely powerful god, and you really don't want to get on my bad side" part of Q.
Seconded. Thirded. One of them.
Yes, Tennant could pull off a Q no problem. Y'know, acting wise, I don't mean round the back of a pub for a tenner.
Absolutely agreed, good shout on that episode too.
I suppose many ways, the Time Lords are the Whoniverse equivalent of the Q continuum.
None of the people mentioned come across as 'superior'. The Q is superior. OK, he torments, but he wants us to learn, rather like a twenty-year-old brother would torment a teenage sibling who is struggling with adolesence. OK, he shouldn't torment with it, but he's a little bored.
None of them sum it up, or fit the part, as well as John De Lancie.
None of them sum it up, or fit the part, as well as John De Lancie.
I disagree. Tennant can and has pulled that off effortlessly as The Doctor.
Yes, but in a 'jokey', childish way. John De Lancie is an ADULT. We're just teenagers, or children, in his portrayal.
Funny... To me, Q always seemed like a teenager. Or, to be precise, a spoiled brat with powers. Not all that different from Trelane.
Yeah, he does treat humans as children, but that's it... he's like a spoiled 16-year old brat who mocks younger kids and thinks he's incredibly wise and important because hes 'all grown up'.
"How could Jean-Luc have evolved from that?" The Q Continuum doesn't experience time the same way we do.
Squire of Gothos, Day of the Dove, Arena, Spectre of the Gun could arguably be considered precursors or prototypes for Q stories.
As for Q affecting the tone of the story, people remember him as a Mister Mxyzptlk type trickster, but he had his Prophetic moments, and a character like that would work well for an exploration story, as evidenced in Q-Who. He knows whats out there, and that it's "not for the timid."
If not Q himself, they can have a new character for this film series that serves a similar purpose (ENT tried to do that with Agent Daniels, but Daniels came across as an idiot who constantly needed Archer's help to maintain the timeline). Perhaps he (or she) could a Black Racer type "death metaphor" character, since Kirk is all about "cheating death."
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Funny... To me, Q always seemed like a teenager. Or, to be precise, a spoiled brat with powers. Not all that different from Trelane.
Yeah, he does treat humans as children, but that's it... he's like a spoiled 16-year old brat who mocks younger kids and thinks he's incredibly wise and important because hes 'all grown up'.
'But you don't deny that you are a dangerous,savage,child race?' ???
'At which time you slaughtered millions in 'silly little' arguments about how to divide the resources of your little world!' ???
The Q is more mature than us, I would say, going on what he has said. He doesn't exibit capriciousness or spite, like Trelane. He doesn't react with anger, when he is proven wrong about humans, he accepts it and acknowledges the fact that we have proven ourselves.
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