The Disco Season 4 trailer said that DSC S4 was coming out in 2021. I got a text from my brother saying LD Season 2 premieres on my birthday. That's in August. So, if I had to guess, it's going to go like this passed year, except in January we'll have another Star Trek series to pick up the slack after Discovery's season ends. So, it'll probably go... August - October 2021: LD Season 2 October 2021 - January 2022: DSC Season 4 January - March 2022: PIC Season 2 April - June 2022 (?): SNW Season 1
I know lot of people say that, that they hate him, and he doesn't feel like he belongs, but the dude was in literally the first and last episodes of TNG along with 6 others, an episode of DS9, multiple episodes of Voyager, an appearance in Lower Decks, and has been brought up in numerous other episodes. Q had more TNG episodes than the Borg. He has been in more episodes than Tribbles and the Gorn combined. And that's not counting the proto-Q characters that kept popping up in TOS. People complaining that he doesn't belong in Trek reminds me of others arguing that Trek can't have funny episodes. Or scary episodes. Or action episodes. Whatever the flavour is. The only "real trek" is a certain narrow type and all the other episodes/movies are wrong. Like it or not, Q is real trek, and an integral part of Picard's story
He was. He didn't automatically have to be. It's not that he is out of place in Trek. Its that he is an insufferable caricature whose obsession with humanity would be laughable if it made sense. Somehow I'm supposed to find investment in it. I do not.
I find Encounter At Farpoint Q to be a different than what came later. More menace than jester. Though we do get hints of menace from time to time.
Perhaps that's the point? He is to Picard what The Joker is to Batman -- pure, unrestrained evil (who just happens to possess godlike powers). He's the living embodiment of Lord Acton's maxim, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Tomato, tomahto. It's a race to the bottom with those two. (Actually, I may dislike Discovery more than Enterprise. On the one hand, Enterprise and Voyager were just deeply boring, safe and dull. At least Discovery is trying and taking chances, even if they fail spectacularly again and again. Hard to say. But I know that Picard is the worst of them all!)
I do think the franchise went to the Q well too often, but I love De Lancie and am excited he’s coming back. It makes sense, I guess, that Q would pop up to question Jean Luc’s humanity after the events of season 1. There’s more potential meat on that bone than many of Q’s appearances, I think.
There are limits even to the Borg's capabilities (Species 8472, anyone?) If the Borg were to assimilate The Continuum, wouldn't that make them gods?
If that's the point then it messes up very badly. It leaves a horrible taste in my mouth, this godlike being serving as a foil to Picard's pomposity. Smugness versus insufferable. That is part of my issue. He starts at highly antagonistic only to became playful imp with a ridiculous over-the-top presentation. Sorry, I don't just find it charming.