What Q could have done...

[Terok Nor]

...if Picard was nicer to him.

Encounter At Farpoint I give Picard a pass for this one because Q was a completely unreasonable dick.

Hide And Q This one is really on Riker. Q gave him power beyond all imagining and the dumb jock threw it back in his face.

Q Who Since Q was so kind to alert Picard to the oncoming Borg attack I think Picard should have offered him a permanent place on the crew in exchange for wiping out the Borg. Countless lives saved in an instant. Picard's biggest mistake by far.

Deja Q Everyone was a jerk to human Q except Data. But the worst offender was Guinan who violently assaulted poor Q. This is where Counselor Troi should have cosied up to Q because when he got his powers back he would happily have got rid of Guinan for her and she could get more screentime in her official role as ship's counselor.

QPid Even though Q was a naughty boy once again he at least got rid of Picard's ex for him. Q is truly a great friend.

True Q I got nothin'.

Tapestry Q proves once again he's Picard's best friend.

All Good Things... Q gets a bad rap. Look at how many times he's helped Picard and humanity itself. I can't help but feel if Picard had openly declared his fondness for Q that he could have maybe convinced him to resurrect Tasha Yar permanently and stop the TNG movies from happening. What could have been...

 

[Kilana2]

What could have been...

A movie featuring Q......??????

 

[Terok Nor]

And lest we forget if captains Sisko and Janeway had been nicer to poor Q then he could have ended the Dominion conflict before it started and brought Voyager home faster than you can say reset button.

 

[at Quark's]

And lest we forget if captains Sisko and Janeway had been nicer to poor Q then he could have ended the Dominion conflict before it started and brought Voyager home faster than you can say reset button.

Yeah, suppose Hide and Q had been a DS9 or VOY script. Sisko would probably have used his power to pacify the dominion, ascending to the prophets after which the question of his Q powers probably would be moot, whereas Janeway probably would have given the power back .... but not before destroying the Borg threat, forcing an apology (at least) from all who dared oppose her in the Delta quadrant and didn't make up afterwards, returning the ship to the alpha quadrant, and start giving lectures at Starfleet academy about interspecies ethics

Somehow it seems humanity evolved beyond belief between our time and early TNG, and then quickly devolved again

 

[Mojochi]

Encounter At Farpoint I give Picard a pass for this one because Q was a completely unreasonable dick.

But this is his introduction, his 1st impression, which he uses to flaunt his magnificence & his contempt for humanity as being a sub-species, worthy of extinction. Kind of hard to develop cordial relations with someone who confesses that you should be eliminated, & it's an attitude Q never really abandons.

Hide And Q This one is really on Riker. Q gave him power beyond all imagining and the dumb jock threw it back in his face.

I think that's why he picked Riker, back in those days when Riker had less humility, before his past came back to haunt him. Q was trying to prove that Humans would become just as corrupted by power as the Q had, & he very nearly did, because instead of choosing Picard, he chose someone more like himself, someone egotistical.

Q Who Since Q was so kind to alert Picard to the oncoming Borg attack I think Picard should have offered him a permanent place on the crew in exchange for wiping out the Borg. Countless lives saved in an instant. Picard's biggest mistake by far.

Q's kindly alert was paid for with the blood of Picard's crew. Hardly a friendly gesture. Kind of like stealing someone's stuff, to remind them that they should lock their doors. Hardly a beneficial public service

Deja Q Everyone was a jerk to human Q except Data. But the worst offender was Guinan who violently assaulted poor Q. This is where Counselor Troi should have cosied up to Q because when he got his powers back he would happily have got rid of Guinan for her and she could get more screentime in her official role as ship's counselor.

why would anyone be nice to him at this point, given the history? At least no one there tried to kill him like the Calamarain. That's about as generous a gesture as he could expect, in this situation.

QPid Even though Q was a naughty boy once again he at least got rid of Picard's ex for him. Q is truly a great friend.

Yes, treating people like toys to play with. Who wouldn't love that happening to them? It's almost like he learned no respect for humans at all, in his short stretch of living as one

True Q I got nothin'.

The Q show their latent fear of humanity (which had been touched on previously) a fear of what a human influence might do to their way of life. They are willing to destroy her because she was instilled with humanity. It's the one real episode where Q is actually a good guy, dickish though he was, & always is, he helped her out there, when they likely would've just ended her like her parents

Tapestry Q proves once again he's Picard's best friend.

Unless he actually saved Picard's life, which seems unlikely, all he really was doing was rubbing his nose in all his life choices. It's actually a preamble to All Good Things... in that Q is playing his game of "What would you do if you were Q?" If you were a master of space & time would you end up making things worse? (In this case, within his own life) and of course the answer is yes, because it's new to Picard.

All Good Things... Q gets a bad rap. Look at how many times he's helped Picard and humanity itself. I can't help but feel if Picard had openly declared his fondness for Q that he could have maybe convinced him to resurrect Tasha Yar permanently and stop the TNG movies from happening. What could have been...

The whole dilemmna is created by geriatric Picard, which moves backwards through time, but Picard only did that because he was tossed unprepared about time BY Q! The whole thing is really Q's fault, because he didn't give Picard notice, like "Hey baldie, game on. I'll be moving you around in time, try not to screw things up"

Again, Picard is a rookie at Q powers, & in these cases, he sometimes doesn't even know he's been given some Q magic until he's already neck deep in making bad decisions

By the accounts of the other Q on TNG, it's clear that Q is something of an advocate for humanity. That is the only way he is a friend. He's possibly the only one left with an interest in humanity enough to not destroy it. Otherwise, he's a self-aggrandizing dick. lol

Kind of hard to be nice to someone who's only friendly quality is that they haven't let their buddies kill you yet, or done it themselves

 

[Melakon]

Yeah, suppose Hide and Q had been a DS9 or VOY script. Sisko would probably have used his power to pacify the dominion, ascending to the prophets after which the question of his Q powers probably would be moot

Q gave the power to an underling, not Picard, so maybe he hoped Riker would kill Picard in a fit of anger.

Imagine a Q-powered Quark.

 

[Kilana2]

Yeah, suppose Hide and Q had been a DS9 or VOY script. Sisko would probably have used his power to pacify the dominion, ascending to the prophets after which the question of his Q powers probably would be moot

Q gave the power to an underling, not Picard, so maybe he hoped Riker would kill Picard in a fit of anger.

Imagine a Q-powered Quark.

He would own all the latinum in the Galaxy and would make the Grand Nagus and his cousin Gaila look poor as dirt

 

[The Old Mixer]

If you think that Q was supposed to be the TNG crew's friendly genie, making their wishes come true, then you don't understand the show or Q's place in it. He was testing humanity. If Picard and company had come to rely on him to solve their problems, he wouldn't have considered them worthy enough of his attention to get involved.

 

[Terok Nor]

Kind of hard to be nice to someone who's only friendly quality is that they haven't let their buddies kill you yet, or done it themselves

It works for the Klingons

 

[Terok Nor]

If you think that Q was supposed to be the TNG crew's friendly genie, making their wishes come true, then you don't understand the show or Q's place in it. He was testing humanity. If Picard and company had come to rely on him to solve their problems, he wouldn't have considered them worthy enough of his attention to get involved.

I was trying to be funny. Clearly it didn't work

 

[Melakon]

Humor. It's a difficult concept.

 

[tharpdevenport]

...if Picard was nicer to him.

Hide and Q This one is really on Riker. Q gave him power beyond all imagining and the dumb jock threw it back in his face.

Say whatever you want, but Riker never asked for nor accepted the power in the first place, it was forced upon him. Further more Riker has never demonstrated a want to be an omnipotent powerful being; of course he turned it down. Q was a dick here.

Q Who[?] Since Q was so kind to alert Picard to the oncoming Borg attack I think Picard should have offered him a permanent place on the crew in exchange for wiping out the Borg. Countless lives saved in an instant. Picard's biggest mistake by far.

Again, Q was a dick, and needlessly so. He was playing with them like some online Troll Kingdom dick. He should be rewarded with a position as an enlighted officer for tossing them into another quadrant, put them face-to-face with an enemy he knew they couldn't defeat, had the ship sliced and people died because of his boredom? For one, you never reward a person for that, and secondly that's not how you get into or promoted in Starfleet. Not every is even accepted at the Academy. Q was an asshole.

Deja Q Everyone was a jerk to human Q except Data. But the worst offender was Guinan who violently assaulted poor Q. This is where Counselor Troi should have cosied up to Q because when he got his powers back he would happily have got rid of Guinan for her and she could get more screentime in her official role as ship's counselor.

Of course they were. He held them on trial for the arbitrary and self-imposed "crime" of being human, violated commander Riker's free will, had members of the crew murdered in an attempt to punish them for not making him a member of the crew, and after all that was still an ominipotent jerkwad about it all. He was not even apologetic.

QPid Even though Q was a naughty boy once again he at least got rid of Picard's ex for him. Q is truly a great friend.

True Q I got nothin'.

It's been too long since I've seen either of these to make comments.

Tapestry Q proves once again he's Picard's best friend.

Ah, so they shoudl be nice to somebody who's done all that I mentioned before because he ... what? Took Picard on a trip down memory lane? Friendship goes both ways, it's not something one person can ordain and thrust upon another because they feel like playing with the other. A "best friend"? I'm reminded of a children who's had a cat for years, a cat that odesn't liek the kid, and a kid that takes the cat and puts it into a pillow case and then swings it around in circles.

All Good Things... Q gets a bad rap. Look at how many times he's helped Picard and humanity itself. I can't help but feel if Picard had openly declared his fondness for Q that he could have maybe convinced him to resurrect Tasha Yar permanently and stop the TNG movies from happening. What could have been...

Oh please, he hasn't helped humanity, that we know of, ever. And don't even cite the Borg -- Starfleet would have known they were coming anyway; we have the outposts and the U.S.S. Raven for advanced notice. Who knows what they could have done in the battle even if they had not had advanced notice (that apparently yeilded nothing more than rotating phaser and shield harmonics). If anything, they were still on a delayed trail for the existance of the human race. Who knows what Q's true intents were here.

If Q wanted to help Picard and huamnity in the arbitrary and silly ways you've suggested above, then why not stop the bad things in advance? Why play with then against their will? And why only focus on them? The Enterprise is jsut one of many ships in the Federation and just one of many planets in the United Federation of Planets.

 

[Terok Nor]

I thought the opening post was clearly tongue in cheek. Obviously not.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

If Picard had done a Sisko and slugged him we could've been saved from Q all this time

 

[Tracy Trek]

I found Janeway's interactions with Q entertaining, but I found Sisko punching Q one of the the truly satisfying moments in all of Trek.

 

[Terok Nor]

I found Janeway's interactions with Q entertaining, but I found Sisko punching Q one of the the truly satisfying moments in all of Trek.

I agree. Being serious for a moment, Q indeed had it coming.

I also liked Q and Janeway together. Again being serious, they did seem to have a genuine fondness for each other.

 

[jim-jean-ben]

meh.....Q didn't need to give a shit. but he gave a shit enough to show humanity how to grow.....and how Picard's youth wasn't misspent. yep, eviiiil i tellz ya!

 

[Granola Gwen]

Can't really be nicer to a being who at an instant second can make your life so much worse. I'm sure there would be some trick Q would have once he was allowed to be apart of their team. The borg would have eventually come to meet them anyway, it just gave them a bit more time to be ready for them. It's hard to see when Q is being sincere for humanity's fate and when he's just messing around with the crew.