Would he if they asked him nice?
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I'll bet if Janeway had agreed to be mommy when he asked, Voyager would have been zooming past the Golden Gate Bridge in short order.
Of course, they also could have just taken the wormhole instead of those Ferengi, or used the quantum slipstream drive in short bursts, eating up a couple thousand light years each time, or just left a tricobalt device with a timer on the Caretaker array.
EDIT: I've seen that meme with other suggestions... it always ends with the Janeway Death Glare and some unsuited spacewalking.
Of course, they also could have just taken the wormhole instead of those Ferengi, or used the quantum slipstream drive in short bursts, eating up a couple thousand light years each time, or just left a tricobalt device with a timer on the Caretaker array.
EDIT: I've seen that meme with other suggestions... it always ends with the Janeway Death Glare and some unsuited spacewalking.
Am I vastly misremembering an episode?
It's a complicated question, since we know Q basically wanted sex, companionship and a child in exchange. And that's the kind of thorny issue Trek won't tackle with a 725m pole.
I believe it's a reference to 'False Profits'.
I know the episode, I just don't recall the Ferengi going through a wormhole during it.
Except...didn't they already tackle it by virtue of introducing the idea in the first place? Q offers, Janeway refuses. Issue dealt with.
Given how duplicitous Q is, the crew often finding out intentions behind revealed intentions behind his stated intentions in the course of an episode, I'm not even convinced he really wanted sex and companionship with her in the first place.
It's the unstable end of the Barzan Wormhole from TNG "The Price" (how those two Ferengi got stranded in the DQ in the first place).
A big part of the "False Profits" episode is Voyager trying to use the wormhole to get back to the AQ. But before they are able to do so, the Ferengi go through the wormhole in their shuttle after emitting some kind/sort/type of graviton pulse to prevent Voyager from beaming them away, and that pulse makes the wormhole even more unstable, so it's impossible for Voyager to go through.
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That was quite a significant scene in the episode, the Ferengi being sucked in and Voyager keeping turning around, chasing the wormhole.
Janeway made it clear on multiple occasions she'd die to get the crew home (and in fact does in "Endgame") and everyone assumes that's the ultimate sacrifice anyone can make... but then being Q's pet is outright refused.
It's interesting though. To a figure like Picard, Q may have been vindictive and sometimes foolish or arrogant, but still, he acted like a kind of teacher- at least he managed to give Picard a number of important lessons, that Picard's convictions weren't all he thought them to be. Enter Janeway, and she becomes the teacher, especially in parenting, while not even being one herself, apparently because the notion of her learning similar lessons from Q would really have been intolerable. Janeway seems a bit of a mary sue in that respect.
"Death Wish" was a poorly executed narrative, ignoring the consequences when a Q broke the rule of the Continuum as told in TNG episode "True Q". Death Wish Q could've just decided he wanted to be human. Sooner or later that idiot would eventually get his wish; instead of a tornado hopefully be eliminated by a Tsunami.
Possibly the Q were just contrary enough that they weren't going to give Quinn what they knew he wanted. Or, possibly, they never intended to allow Q to die in "Deja Q". His time on Enterprise was equivalent to putting a child in time-out. Maybe with a swat on the rear thrown in, given that he knew pain for the first time.
There should have been a rule set for the Q, but the same is true of a lot of races in Star Trek.
There should have been a rule set for the Q, but the same is true of a lot of races in Star Trek.
The Q was just fine before Voyager ruined them. TNG "All Good Things..." did such a great job in closing the book on anything Q; only a good thought provoking story would be a reason to bring the concept back. Star Trek, our heroes has faced deity type characters several times, probably been better to invent a new character in the vein of Q, Apollo, and Trelane. Something VOY could tackle than ruining established characters from TNG.
I don't remember that episode, "True Q" which season is that from? I admit that I am not a big fan of Q after his first appearance on TNG. I think they could of done more with him instead of making him look like Uncle Arthur from Bewitched.
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