Q: Best Lines

[Iamnotspock]

PICARD: "I can't live out my days as that person. That man is bereft of passion and imagination. That is not who I am."
Q: "Au contraire, he's the person you wanted to be. One who was less arrogant, and undisciplined as a youth. One who was less like me. The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be, the one who did not fight the Nausicaan, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is or how important each moment must be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted for much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never lead the away team on Milika Three to save the ambassador, or take charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its Captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone."

- "Tapestry"

 

[Whizkid]

PICARD: "I can't live out my days as that person. That man is bereft of passion and imagination. That is not who I am."
Q: "Au contraire, he's the person you wanted to be. One who was less arrogant, and undisciplined as a youth. One who was less like me. The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be, the one who did not fight the Nausicaan, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is or how important each moment must be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted for much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never lead the away team on Milika Three to save the ambassador, or take charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its Captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone."

- "Tapestry"

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Oh. Lovely .

 

[Whizkid]

This segues so well into "All Good Things."

 

[Kraig]

Star Trek, Voyager, The Q and the Grey
I know that you're probably asking yourself, "Why would a brilliant, handsome, dashingly omnipotent being like Q want to mate with a scrawny little bipedal specimen like me?"

 

[Oddish]

JANEWAY: "Let me guess. No one else in the universe will have you."
The captain gave as good as she got.

 

[Whizkid]

Redux (from TNG Tapestry):

Q: "Oh, you mortals, you're so obtuse! Why do you persist in believing that life and death are such static and rigid concepts?!"

Every Q statement is gold. What writing!

 

[Whizkid]

Just like Spock could call Kirk, Jim, so could Q call Picard, Johnny!

Outstanding.

 

[Whizkid]

Thanks to Quonundrum, 1001101 whatever, IamnotSpock, Kraig, and especially the Pumpkin-mon King. Lovely.

It delights me that you're still engaging. Because I was just trying to understand this whole business you know? I would expect nothing less than ST. Not Battlestar Galactica. Not Babylon 5. DS9 rules!

 

[trekshark]

Always liked this from Deja Q. Shows Q has some level of humility and caring.
There are creatures in the universe who would consider you the ultimate achievement, android. No feelings, no emotions, no pain. And yet you covet those qualities of humanity. Believe me, you're missing nothing. But if it means anything to you, you're a better human than I.

 

[Qonundrum]

Star Trek, Voyager, The Q and the Grey
I know that you're probably asking yourself, "Why would a brilliant, handsome, dashingly omnipotent being like Q want to mate with a scrawny little bipedal specimen like me?"

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[Qonundrum]

Maybe Q’s best line is the one we don't hear --at the end of "All Good Things" when Picard asks, what are you trying to tell me? Q starts to whisper in Picard’s ear and withdraws. Then he says, “you’ll find out...in any case, I’ll be watching.” [the ever- critical viewer]

(...emphasis added for more than a cheap thrill...)

Not since "2001: A Space Odyssey" has there been a poignant and piquant allegory of the ever-critical viewer, for the obelisk in that movie is the fourth wall, shaped in what looks like a 2.35:1 aspect ratio but turned 90 degrees to make it less of a proverbial glove-slap. (What's creepy is that HAL's cameras also share the same rectangular visage, only to scale... even the placard with the reference to the Zero-G bathroom and yet it's not Dave Lister reading it -- it's the same motif yet again, but the use of "sono" as segue to "sonic" or audio frequency vibration to do the so-called dirty work was rather clever as well... Less importantly, whether it's a sly dig at the more pedantic of the audience or an early example of "dignified potty humor" is still up for debate, of course...)


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Thanks to Quonundrum, 1001101 whatever, IamnotSpock, Kraig, and especially the Pumpkin-mon King. Lovely.

It delights me that you're still engaging. Because I was just trying to understand this whole business you know? I would expect nothing less than ST. Not Battlestar Galactica. Not Babylon 5. DS9 rules!

Thanks, glad to be of service! And, yep, DS9 rules. I like B5 and am waiting anxiously for a blu-ray release, but until then it's DS9 all the way.

 

[Oddish]

Thanks to Quonundrum, 1001101 whatever, IamnotSpock, Kraig, and especially the Pumpkin-mon King. Lovely

Though Halloween is over and I have reverted from monarch to lowly weed Pokémon, I remain happy to be of service. Especially when it comes to channeling Trek's snarkiest immortal.

 

[Trekker09]

A couple more....

Q to Vash: When I look at a gas nebula, all I see is a cloud of dust, but seeing the universe through your eyes I was able to experience--wonder…I’m going to miss that. --“Q-Less”

Q to Picard: Jean Luc, sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours. –“True Q”

 

[Richard Baker]

In 'Hide and Q' he first appears as a glowing orb with three snakes surrounded by sparkling lights, a wonderful alien concept worthy of Jack L Chalker's Well World.

PICARD: You're no Starfleet Admiral, Q.
Q: Neither am I an Aldebaran serpent, Captain, but you accepted me as such.
RIKER: He's got us there, Captain.

One thing of note, when we see Q for the first time he uses an energy wall to both stop the Enterprise and block a turbolift door, in this episode he uses it again to stop the ship. Why? We know Q is powerful enough to simply pull the ship out and stick it into a pocket universe. Maybe it is to make his abilities more relatable to humans or perhaps as they used the character more writers wanted to ramp up his powers to 12. I was watching these early shows and his powers were fairly different than what he was doing later on. He snapped the Enterprise spinning into Borg space, the crew hanging on as the ship whirled end over end, but on Voyager Janeway just looked the window and the ship was in Earth orbit.

 

[at Quark's]

^I always assumed he merely showed her an image of Earth in that instance, just as a reminder of what he could do for them, not that he'd actually transported them back home for a moment.

 

[Tuesday]

In 'Hide and Q' he first appears as a glowing orb with three snakes surrounded by sparkling lights, a wonderful alien concept worthy of Jack L Chalker's Well World.

PICARD: You're no Starfleet Admiral, Q.
Q: Neither am I an Aldebaran serpent, Captain, but you accepted me as such.
RIKER: He's got us there, Captain.

One thing of note, when we see Q for the first time he uses an energy wall to both stop the Enterprise and block a turbolift door, in this episode he uses it again to stop the ship. Why? We know Q is powerful enough to simply pull the ship out and stick it into a pocket universe. Maybe it is to make his abilities more relatable to humans or perhaps as they used the character more writers wanted to ramp up his powers to 12. I was watching these early shows and his powers were fairly different than what he was doing later on. He snapped the Enterprise spinning into Borg space, the crew hanging on as the ship whirled end over end, but on Voyager Janeway just looked the window and the ship was in Earth orbit.

^I always assumed he merely showed her an image of Earth in that instance, just as a reminder of what he could do for them, not that he'd actually transported them back home for a moment.

Maybe if there no limit to his power he just does different things to keep from getting bored...he did say the the first episode that he did things then to let them better understand in terms they understood...so maybe he thought they'd better cope with physical barriers and being flung across the galaxy compared to just transported in blink of eye...then sometimes he just does things in blink of eye just to change things up...

 

[Tuesday]

Redux (from TNG Tapestry):

Q: "Oh, you mortals, you're so obtuse! Why do you persist in believing that life and death are such static and rigid concepts?!"

Every Q statement is gold. What writing!

Writing is good but I thought they found the perfect actor too do A as well...I really can't imagine anyone else doing it as well...just like I can't imagine Picard being played by anyone else...and goes for all the TNG characters actually I'm pretty biased haha...TOS too actually and that's probably why I never watched the reboots...

 

[Tuesday]

PICARD: "I can't live out my days as that person. That man is bereft of passion and imagination. That is not who I am."
Q: "Au contraire, he's the person you wanted to be. One who was less arrogant, and undisciplined as a youth. One who was less like me. The Jean-Luc Picard you wanted to be, the one who did not fight the Nausicaan, had quite a different career from the one you remember. That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realized how fragile life is or how important each moment must be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted for much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never lead the away team on Milika Three to save the ambassador, or take charge of the Stargazer's bridge when its Captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone."

- "Tapestry"

Episodes like this is what really does it TNG...

 

[Richard Baker]

Writing is good but I thought they found the perfect actor too do A as well...I really can't imagine anyone else doing it as well...just like I can't imagine Picard being played by anyone else...and goes for all the TNG characters actually I'm pretty biased haha...TOS too actually and that's probably why I never watched the reboots...

I think Bruce Campbell could pull it off if he worked on his gravitas some. The role needs someone who thinks and performs outside the box, one who goes unexpectedly sideways in mid conversation.