Pranks you could pull if you were a Q

[Gingerbread Demon]

Time to get naughty folks...

If you were a Q or had Q like power what kind of pranks would you pull on the world and not remove them?

Me: Oh hell yes I have a doozy....


I would moderate the atmosphere of Venus into something more like Earth and just sit back amused as I watch everyone scrambling to work out what the heck is going on. I would not revert it back, but let it keep changing.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I’d make every single weapon, from bayonets to rifles to tanks, planes and nukes, vanish from the Russian arsenal and watch Putin try to conduct his war without them.

 

[at Quark's]

Not a prank as such, but still:

Create a baby universe in which 17 is not a prime number, and watch how that affects mathematics, then physics and ultimately reality as that baby universe develops.

 

[StarMan]

Swap the sounds chickens and cows make.

Then, I rest.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I’d make every single weapon, from bayonets to rifles to tanks, planes and nukes, vanish from the Russian arsenal and watch Putin try to conduct his war without them.

He'd go crazier

 

[at Quark's]

I’d make every single weapon, from bayonets to rifles to tanks, planes and nukes, vanish from the Russian arsenal and watch Putin try to conduct his war without them.

Better than Q2, who ignited a war just to amuse himself.

 

[Gul Sengosts]

I'd do the water bucket above the door on Picard or Worf. They have sliding doors but now I can make buckets float, heh heh.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Speaking of that I was surprised they could not have shoved in Amanda Q on Picard she was kind of a good Q

 

[at Quark's]

I might have some juvenile fun by resizing everyone's wardrobe and watching the societal chaos that ensues.

Or I might mess with some scholarly heads by creating a primitive species (and making humans discover them) that never has had contact with any extraterrestrials, yet has the exact same religion as some obscure Earth sect, but absolutely no clues as to the possible cause of this.

To attempt a slightly more serious answer, I wonder how long it would be fun. I guess pranks would tire pretty quickly when you're omnipotent (or close to that).

Compare it to those 'god simulator' type of computer games that let you have great powers to wreak havoc as some invisible entity to some imaginary world. Doing the most outrageous stuff can be fun for perhaps a few hours, but usually it doesn't last long and the real game only begins when you begin playing towards some (usually constructive) purpose.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I might have some juvenile fun by resizing everyone's wardrobe and watching the societal chaos that ensues.

Or I might mess with some scholarly heads by creating a primitive species (and making humans discover them) that never has had contact with any extraterrestrials, yet has the exact same religion as some obscure Earth sect, but absolutely no clues as to the possible cause of this.

To attempt a slightly more serious answer, I wonder how long it would be fun. I guess pranks would tire pretty quickly when you're omnipotent (or close to that).

Compare it to those 'god simulator' type of computer games that let you have great powers to wreak havoc as some invisible entity to some imaginary world. Doing the most outrageous stuff can be fun for perhaps a few hours, but usually it doesn't last long and the real game only begins when you begin playing towards some (usually constructive) purpose.

Well yes of course but hey pranks are fun......

I guess once I have had my fill of fun I would do something more constructive such as reshaping humanity to go in a much more positive direction, or do my very best to try.

I'd still however kick start Venus on becoming more like Earth and marvel at how people react. It would trigger a new space race and that has to be good

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I might have some juvenile fun by resizing everyone's wardrobe and watching the societal chaos that ensues.

I'd leave the wardrobes alone......but I'd seriously mess with their heads, by switching them. Picard's head is now attached to Troi's neck, Troi's head to Worf's body, Worf's to Wesley's, Wesley to Crusher, Crusher to Data, Data to Yar, Yar to Riker, Riker to Geordi, and Geordi to Picard. Either that or just change them all into guinea pigs. One could surrender 15 minutes into the episode, and another would get repeatedly flipped.

 

[fireproof78]

Everything gets made out of Lego.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Everything gets made out of Lego.

What if you turned 45 into lego?

 

[Nerys Myk]

What if you turned 45 into lego?

The number?

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I'd make it so that for 24 hours, politicians all over the world couldn't lie to the public, no matter what questions were asked.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The number?

Trump I meant him. For 48 hours he would be made of Legos

I'd make it so that for 24 hours, politicians all over the world couldn't lie to the public, no matter what questions were asked.

Oh imagine the chaos that would bring. The movie Martians Go Home did that only it was every single person on Earth that could not lie for 24 hours.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Trump I meant him. For 48 hours he would be made of Legos

Go to town

 

[Qonundrum]

I'd turn the Enterprise crew into ants and dangle them in front of an aardvark sanctuary for a cheap thrill. Not sure why but it's better than turning them into a tree ornament...

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Dang, the bunny rabbit and the elephant really got hopping one day...

 

[Nerys Myk]

Make everyone into actors on a TV show.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Make everyone into actors on a TV show.

This has already happened. You just haven’t wised up yet.