"we are the borg. We hope you find assimilation to be a pleasant experience. Resistance would not be advised, we are only here to help. Please refer any complaints about your assimilation process to our Borg customer service division. We have prepared a thorough "welcome to the collective" seminar to ease your way into your new and exciting lifestyle as a member of the Borg community."
What would you do, with the power the of Q?
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"we are the borg. We hope you find assimilation to be a pleasant experience. Resistance would not be advised, we are only here to help. Please refer any complaints about your assimilation process to our Borg customer service division. We have prepared a thorough "welcome to the collective" seminar to ease your way into your new and exciting lifestyle as a member of the Borg community."
I preferred the borg as a cold, mysterious race. Less personable would be the preference for me.
I would do unspeakable things.
And erase 'Threshold' from history.
And erase 'Threshold' from history.
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- Improve my own self confidence and personability
- Make all western women as hot and thin as Asian girls without taking the baggage of traditional culture and asian mothers
- Help different cultures and countries to understand each other and remove the threat of war
- Remove the evil, regressive and primitive sides of human beings
That said however, I agree with Riker's decision to reject those powers. To do so would be to take 'the quick and easy way' and would lead to his character becoming corrupted. Probably to an eventual loss of his human morality, given how small they would seem to a Q.
- Make all western women as hot and thin as Asian girls without taking the baggage of traditional culture and asian mothers
- Help different cultures and countries to understand each other and remove the threat of war
- Remove the evil, regressive and primitive sides of human beings
That said however, I agree with Riker's decision to reject those powers. To do so would be to take 'the quick and easy way' and would lead to his character becoming corrupted. Probably to an eventual loss of his human morality, given how small they would seem to a Q.
Chick_McGeester
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Id make my wang smaller. Cause it scares alot of women away...
i'd go back in time to check out the whole jesus thing. and then i'd tell muhammad to write down somewhere that the infidels and jews are cool, and blowing them up will get you an eternity of being raped by a pig.
get a hummer from marylin monroe
see who killed kennedy
oh, and finally figure out a question that has been really bugging me: If our ancestors first appeared in africa, then why the hell is it the poorest continent? shouldn't africans have had a jumpstart on the guys that went to the rest of the world (namely europe)? with all the abundant natural resources, why didn't the continent ever develop? WTF???
get a hummer from marylin monroe
see who killed kennedy
oh, and finally figure out a question that has been really bugging me: If our ancestors first appeared in africa, then why the hell is it the poorest continent? shouldn't africans have had a jumpstart on the guys that went to the rest of the world (namely europe)? with all the abundant natural resources, why didn't the continent ever develop? WTF???
1. Zap Wesley Crusher into a locked room with a drunk and horny Worf.
2. Erase "These are the Voyages..." and make "Terra Prime" the canonical ending to Enterprise.
3. Force Starfleet to let me attach a pair of space-ski's behind the Enterprise and ride them as it goes to warp
4. Put the writers of the show through the kinda torture they kept putting O'Brien though..poor guy.
5. Find out more about the Breen! Where is the homeworld, what they look like beneath those damned suits!
2. Erase "These are the Voyages..." and make "Terra Prime" the canonical ending to Enterprise.
3. Force Starfleet to let me attach a pair of space-ski's behind the Enterprise and ride them as it goes to warp
4. Put the writers of the show through the kinda torture they kept putting O'Brien though..poor guy.
5. Find out more about the Breen! Where is the homeworld, what they look like beneath those damned suits!
I don't think anyone has actually considered that the power of Q, at least to us, is unlimited.
I mean you could practically rewrite the entire history of the universe at the snap of a finger!
I honestly don't know what I would do with such enourmous power. I could fix the entire world wars, and not only catch criminals, but completely rewrite their minds to make them good people.
As for myself, well, I'd probably remove all human weaknesses from myself, like the need to eat, to drink, to crap, etc. But then what would I become if I eliminated practically everything that a human being is?
I mean you could practically rewrite the entire history of the universe at the snap of a finger!
I honestly don't know what I would do with such enourmous power. I could fix the entire world wars, and not only catch criminals, but completely rewrite their minds to make them good people.
As for myself, well, I'd probably remove all human weaknesses from myself, like the need to eat, to drink, to crap, etc. But then what would I become if I eliminated practically everything that a human being is?
The problems with Q-like powers:
If you can resurrect anyone from the dead, then the value of life is diminished.
If you can accomplish anything by snapping your fingers, then you will never have a sense of satisfaction.
If you can undo peoples' mistakes, then they will learn nothing from their experience.
If you can remove pain and suffering, then you will remove the need for compassion.
If you can become all-knowing, then you will never experience the joy of discovery.
If you can make yourself immortal, then you will suffer the loss of more people than anyone else in history.
If you set yourself up as a super-hero, then people will respect you only for what you can do, not for who you are.
If you change a significant event in history, then everyone conceived after that date will have a different chromosomal make-up and the present-day population will be completely different.
I think I'd make myself fluent in all languages, then do some "invisible observer" time-traveling to discern the truth surrounding historical events, and in the present-day, jump around in various disguises just to have conversations with all the interesting people in the world, trying to shape the future by persuasion only (possibly visiting people in their dreams instead of physically).
If you can resurrect anyone from the dead, then the value of life is diminished.
If you can accomplish anything by snapping your fingers, then you will never have a sense of satisfaction.
If you can undo peoples' mistakes, then they will learn nothing from their experience.
If you can remove pain and suffering, then you will remove the need for compassion.
If you can become all-knowing, then you will never experience the joy of discovery.
If you can make yourself immortal, then you will suffer the loss of more people than anyone else in history.
If you set yourself up as a super-hero, then people will respect you only for what you can do, not for who you are.
If you change a significant event in history, then everyone conceived after that date will have a different chromosomal make-up and the present-day population will be completely different.
I think I'd make myself fluent in all languages, then do some "invisible observer" time-traveling to discern the truth surrounding historical events, and in the present-day, jump around in various disguises just to have conversations with all the interesting people in the world, trying to shape the future by persuasion only (possibly visiting people in their dreams instead of physically).
This is exactly why I would make the world a better place, but not perfect. The purpose of life is what you decide it to be, and there would be no purpose of life in a perfect world.
Isn't all respect based on what you do?
To make the world a better place, I would do the following things:
1. Give everyone some wisdom.
2. Make everyone more empathic.
3. Slow down global warming.
4. Do some small good deeds.
As you can see, I would mostly just help people help themselves.
In addition, I would have fun and enjoy myself. I'd travel around the galaxy.
I'd make it faster, just end this stupid ice age earth is stuck in already.
I'd use my Q powers to make sure the sudden rise in temperatures doesn't affect the world too badly
Then I'd go to a lifeless planet and play god. I'd move it into the habitable zone of it's star, pour water on it and dump some primitive lifeforms into the ocean, then I'd check once in a while what happened. I would also install an alert that calls me whenever my little project is threated by asteroids or gamma bursts or stuff like that, I don't want to come back and see that almost all life was whiped out again, screw mass extinctions, not on my planet!
This makes no sense. Death itself diminishes the value of life.
Mortality is part of what makes life precious and not to be squandered.
