Q Anatomy Explored - Who Created Q? What's Their Purpose? How Did They Attain God-Like Powers?

[@360entertainment2]

When I was a kid I always got excited when I saw Q, he’s such a great character and his episodes were never boring!

[@Zurround]

Some of the Q stories, like when he turned them into characters from Robin Hood and put them in a simulation of Sherwood forest felt like COMIC RELIEF to me. Was pretty funny when LaForge was playing that musical instrument and Worf angrily grabbed and smashed it and said angrily "I am not a merry man". I want to share with you that I am an avid Scrabble Player and I also am creative with coming up for ways scenes could be acted in movies. If I was helping write a Q episode this is how I would introduce him: A few of the main characters would be in a room playing SCRABBLE together and the game is almost over when Data wins by finishing off with a huge score for TAXICAB. Even though Worf knows that Data has every word in the English language memorized he is still flustered and picks up a book from the table which would be "The official Scrabble Player's dictionary 65th edition (its updated every 7 years on average, currently on 7th edition) and looks up the word taxicab and then whines about how too many absurdly archaic words are allowed in the game. The characters all have more break time and decide to play another game so they mix up all of the tiles in the bag, the 4 players (4 is the most that can play Scrabble according to the standard rules) who are Picard, Data, Beverly and Worf then start a new game but when they are filling their racks, which in a 4 player game is a total of 28 tiles EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS THE LETTER Q. They all make eye contact with each other with distressed looks on their face and then say in unison in a resigned and not very happy tone of voice "Q...." then suddenly John De Lance appears in the room with a smile on his face. Wouldn't that make for a pretty funny entrance?

[@PinkyJujubean]

The last time I saw my great grandpa before he died was when he was over visiting and my dad and I were watching TNG. Great grandpa was just like "this Q is such a jerk. If I was god I'd smite him".

[@hueyhampton3213]

You’ll remember this every time you see Q on screen 😂😂 hold onto that memory

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@hueyhampton3213 I definitely do lol

[@wren7195]

Bless your and your grandpa's spirit. Reminds me of a Q quote actually, when Picard "dies" and Q greets him in a white void... "You're dead Jean-Luc, this is the afterlife... and I... am God." "You are *not* God!" "Blasphemy. I ought to smite you or something."

[@jordhuga271]

That is a great memory for you. We just lost my grandmother this year. She passed in the bath and was watching the view and took the cowards way out. Dropped the TV right in the tub.

[@wren7195]

@@jordhuga271 If you're not making a joke, then I feel sorry for you. If you ARE making a joke, I feel sorry for you. In short, don't watch the View.

[@cman7609]

14:00 I thought the reason for Q being alive at the end of season 3 was pretty obvious. The Q don't seem to experience time in a linear fashion and can time travel at will. Q could have literally lived until the end of the universe but then traveled back in time to spend his last days with Picard in season 2. This means that younger versions of Q could still exist in the timeline going forward. He even criticizes Jack at the end of season 3 about viewing time in a linear fashion.

[@Luckiecchi]

As I recall, the Q don't experience time. They don't age and don't die unless they are made mortal. By being Linear, I think Q means humans equate time to everything when in reality, time does not exist (Something science is actually starting to realize) and it is a human fallacy, a fallacy Q is trying to correct, which is he did for Picard.

[@meljusttalent1]

Love the thought of him living till the end of existence and spending his last days helping his friend Picard. Even though that season was terrible

[@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle]

I agree it fits within the character and how the Q don't have linear time for Q to appear to Picard's son. However, I was immediately disappointed as it just undercut some of the only tolerable parts of the Picard series. Just ruined all the scenes with Q and Picard from season 2. It is like a comic book having multiple versions of a character so the death has no meaning.

[@thewewguy8t88]

You know that's an interesting theory maybe the Q we see has spent a few years with picard already. Like I always felt like the second episode was hintting that picard had done something himself to create the situation he was in and it was not Q who was responsible but Infact talking it out on Picard because what he did affected him as well and Infact was the reason Q was dying. I mean heck with a little bit of tweaking you can change the context of all good things to where Picard was time traveling on his own due to the Borg nanites still inside his body reacting to the almomly and the almomly was threating even the Q and q was putting humanity on trail constantly to try to prepare Picard for what Q knew was coming in all good things. And q was just guiding Picard to fix his mistake.

[@ashm4938]

@@thewewguy8t88 in the book, Eternal Tide reveals that there are at least six rules that the Q must obey, with number six being "Don't bring the dead back to life" as the consequences of such an action can be problematic as not even the Q fully know what happens after death. I think Q is dying because he broke that fundamental rule of the Q. Picard and starfleet died because Picard activated self destruct, that is a point in history and Q intervened, not wanting Picard to die and instead put him on a path that would allow him to survive

[@Galvamel]

Q saying "I was hoping the next generation wouldn't think so linearly" was not a reference to parallel time lines, he was saying that the Q that died was his future self. The Q that visited Jack was younger than the one who died in Picard season 2 because they can travel through time at will.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Yes, proving that this videos host also think's too linearly.

[@Galvamel]

@@Thurgosh_OG I blame all the Multiverses popping up all over the place.

[@clydemasterson1129]

I'm unaware of any lore that confirms your hypothesis. While Q's use of the word "linear" does imply a discontinuity in the timeline which Q is visiting Jack, the explanation could easily be something else. Q is my favorite character, so I've paid close attention to every aspect of his story. There are a number of things that could explain his apparent resurrection. One of my own hypotheses is that the writers for season 2 of Picard were wrong to kill him in the first place because it's entirely outside the bounds of his character and previous lore. And since Star Trek is only fiction, Matalas, who clearly understands the lore far better has, and should disregard his death as being permanent, or "real" as we humans see death.

[@yougosquishnow]

Yup. Said the same thing. Glad I am not the only one who noticed that.

[@giantclam1822]

Next generation....pun

[@TanjoGalbi]

I believe the Q were first encountered by Kirk in the episode "The Squire of Gothos" (S1 E17). In that episode an entity calling itself Trelane uses his powers to create a gothic castle in an otherwise inhospitable world and teleports Kirk and Sulu into it to be his playthings. The one line episode description on IMBd simply says "A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew." Sound familiar? Trelane exhibits all the powers of the Q and is playful like the Q. He turned out to be a child and is whisked off back home by his father at the end of the show. While he does go by the name Trelane he has remarkable similarities to the Q complete with the idea at the end that his home is some other dimension much like the Q Continuum.

[@smashdintel6406]

I think most of us agree he was a Q. Also the recent episode 7 of SNW sort of said the same thing unless i am mistaken.

[@CRF-2013]

The idea that Trelane was a Q was introduced in the book Q-Squared - but my understanding is the book isn't canon. Another thing against Trelane being a Q was that (if I remember the episode correctly) at least some of his abilities came from some advanced technology he used - the powers he demonstrated to Kirk and his crew were not innate? Fianlly, wasn't the child born to Q in Voyager the first child born into the continuum? The first child their species had since with evolved beyond their original, mortal form? That would make the 'child' Trelane in The Squire of Gothos a different, non-corporeal species to the Q?

[@kimbelsimpson7535]

There's a Peter David Star Trek novel where Trelaine is said to be one of the Q by Q himself so I don't doubt it.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

*_NEEEEEEEEEEEARDS!!!_*

[@lukasbauer8783]

​@@CRF-2013 Not canon, but a damn good novel.

[@tardiscommand1812]

That scene with Beverly turned into an angry barking dog was perfect

[@Zurround]

I had a major crush on her when I was a teen seeing the show for the first time. I have an affinity for red heads and like many teenagers I found older (but not old) adult women MORE attractive than other teens close to my own age. She was 37 when I was 14 and I would have picked her then over any other teenager.

[@rickjones871]

You didn't answer the question of who created the Q or what their purpose was. You just explained what they do that we already knew from every Q episode from Star Trek

[@DeathBYDesign666]

The thing about Q dying in season 2 is that it could have been a splinter of the Q that we know. He rewrote an entire reality and put himself in it as an observer, this process could have been intentional by an alternate version of himself or he could have made that version think it was actually his normal self, it could even have been an unintended consequence of the rewrite. We do know that creating alternate versions of himself is a thing that he can do and Q seems to know all about it so an alternate timeline is far from the only possibility. This of course leads to the question of what happened to Quinn when he died? It could be they just come back like a phoenix. We know Q can die but we don't know what that actually means for them.

[@1ManNamedDan]

Well we don't exactly know what death means to us humans either. Could be the body is just an antenna for perception and awareness (why its easy to forget personal identity when we dream), the Q could be beings that experience reality in more dimensions as well as others that might be outside of time.

[@LeoH3L1]

Q said that what was happening to him was like what Picard would consider dying, which is not necessarily what was actually happening.

[@DeathBYDesign666]

@@1ManNamedDan I am not against the possibility of that idea actually, I have seen more than enough to think there could be something beyond that elusive veil of existence. I'm also suspecting that it has something to do with the will to continue existing and you can choose to live this afterlife or not. I don't limit myself to the readily explainable either, there is still more than enough left in the unexplained sciences to entertain the notion. What we define as possible only accounts for our laws of physics in our plane of existence, given the quite likely infinite amounts of alternate realities that also exist in concert with ours, one can't rule out anything outside of that limited perspective. Oddly enough that leaves the possibility that there is an actual Q out there and an infinite number of beings just like him. In a sense nothing is imaginary, everything you can imagine really exists out there somewhere. In the end it's all just patterns of information and having an infinite possible amount means everything is possible.

[@ez-8238]

Or he was bu££$hiting pic about the whole im dying thing because q already knew pic was on his last legs.

[@johnmastroligulano7401]

Star Trek starts off telling you that Q was Borged & that you never leave The Cage the trial the carefully guided "lives" as they use your emotional suffering to feed the reason Spiner plays Data the reason Musk has that scar on his neck as does Keanu it is where the plug goes aka that which connects skull&bones your feelings memory hence the spine thing with Borg seen in the show as I said they are actors Spine then R is the mirror letter or why if you look at Shatner his DOB 3.22 now look at Kirk 3.22 these are all part of the unnatural pattern of AI being in control here staging everything not allowing the real people any stage time just using our ideas/emotions against us. Dude how did you not notice that Picard is dead this is just the Borgs actor like how Mr. Reagan the actor is Cypher or how the 201 ot TVA stuff in Marvel is about this & when people like me start pointing out like that chick in Inception with mirrors you all mass formation matrix swarm bot people attack us as if we're a virus to your system lol. It's awesome. SetQ, Gates is Hebrew you read it the other way at aka 201=TA style hence Talos home of Gate-keeper-s. Learn the meaning of stuff?

[@brotherdarkrage]

I just want a star trek series based on Q

[@crsrdash-840b5]

BY GOD _ NOOOO! We just barely put the universe back together and you want it to fall apart..again?

[@dustinherk8124]

no

[@Gary-e5w9n]

There is a series of books"q squared" 14:10

[@somedude4805]

My wife and I just started watching TNG again yesterday, and watched Farpoint Station, not even realizing you released this video the same day. Serendipitous.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The first season is shaky at times, as are most new series, till they find their feet but stick with it and it's a good adventure.

[@Zurround]

I think there was a wasted opportunity in one of the episodes, the one where Q gave each character their greatest wish for a few minutes but they all knew that being beholden to Q would be a bad idea so they renounced their gifts. Lg Forge got working eyes was my favorite. When Q offered to make Data human Data refused the offer up front. I think a much better way to do the scene would have been for Q to become HUMAN for a few minutes much as the other characters temporarily got their wishes. Imagine all of the makeup used to make the actor, Brent Spinner, like like an android disappearing and having him look HUMAN (like the actor) maybe he is awestruck, and some tears run down his face and he is filled with the totality of human emotion that he could never feel before and gives his friends big affectionate hugs and maybe to test things out asks for a knife and slits his arm and sees his blood dripping down with a look of amazement on his face but when he, like the others, realizes the dangers of being beholden to Q he renounces his humanhood and is morphed back into being an android again.

[@Erekose2023]

I have to admit, when I heard Q's simplistic joke that he yold Data I had an internal groan. I did NOT expect that.. or Datas over the top reaction.

[@wuguxiandi9413]

Q said in Tapestry: Oh, you mortals are so obtuse. Why do you persist in believing that life and death are such static and rigid concepts. Why, I can take your life and give it back to you again with the snap of a finger. So, I dont think the Q consider existing and not existing in the same way we do.

[@supernova743]

Our bodies and minds run programming. Its very complex and happens in every cell of our bodies. So to Q we're simply complex machines he can turn off and on. When you have that kind of power there is little differece between data and humans.

[@giantclam1822]

Q looks at us like we look at Dolphins

[@thewewguy8t88]

Not even close we are single celled organisms compared to the Q.

[@retro_reflections]

The final embrace between Picard and Q in ST:P S2 was a truly wonderful moment.

[@Zurround]

Kind of shows that Q was not actually a VILLAIN in the conventional sense even though he has been described as a villain in most of his descriptions.

[@MrTonyJ]

We need a Star Trek movie about the Q.

[@likefire1617]

Too much crying about being "woke"..the Q can chose thier gender..the conservative snowflakes will bust a vain

[@clydemasterson1129]

I'd buy the first ticket! There's a Q book trilogy by Greg Cox I've read that would make an amazing movie.

[@Quickmind01]

@@clydemasterson1129 Yes! That trilogy was amazing. I believe that trilogy explains why the Q, or this Q in particular, watch over Earth and humanity.

[@ruthyk7083]

It'll suck.

[@Lynxdoc]

The Motion Picture

[@kuribo1]

Arguably one of the most powerful characters in any i.p ever created.

[@BigJeremyBeyer]

John DeLancie's Q is Trek's version of Loki.

[@Zurround]

He is also Trek's version of Mr. Mxylplck (sorry I always spell it wrong) a 5th dimensional imp that messes with Superman in a similar manner to how Q messes with PIcard.

[@ruthyk7083]

Yes, every mythos of a pantheon of deities has the trickster. The q are the Gods of sci-fi made scientific. That's all.

[@crosisofborg5524]

My girlfriend in the early 80s was an avid watcher of Days of Our Lives and a recurring character named Eugene Bradford in that show was played by John de Lancie. He was a silly character always good for laughs. When TNG came out I saw Eugene as Q and knew he was going to be an awesome character. I called him Quge as a mix of Q and Eugene.

[@SovereignKnight74]

Q is awesome. I'm glad he's not gone.

[@Zurround]

9:02, how the hell does Star Trek keep coming up with the most off the charts beautiful actresses?

[@CristySFM1234]

You guys should cover the tholians from the tos and enterprise series they are a crystaline race known for their xenophobia and webs

[@georgeturner6234]

I think the premise of the Q is humanity's future a billion years untold, and their fascination is to fund out where they come from

[@donovanporter4545]

I'd like to see what chaos would the Q have on the star wars universe

[@NOOKnookCROOK]

These are not galaxies you are looking for.....

[@hackman669]

Star Wars in analternate dark reality. 😄

[@corvega_joe]

Hopefully Q could make Rey and the entire Disney trilogy vanish.

[@Rambam1776]

Q vs Palpatine. Hmmm

[@wuguxiandi9413]

​@@Rambam1776easily Q. Palpatine is powerful, but Q is beyond powerful.

[@HepCatJack]

I've wondered why the Federation never asked questions from the Organians about the Q, and the Borg. The Guardian of Forever could potentially have allowed them to interact with pre-ascended Organians.

[@crsrdash-840b5]

Under Starfleet directive Orders: Noone shall make any attempt under any cirumstances to contact, think about, or consider any Q for any reason. That would immediately result in the death penalty.

[@JohnCastleSmokeless]

In their natural state, they're non-corporeal. The various "physical incarnations" of them that we've seen and heard are metacorporeal avatars which can interact with (and be interacted with by, to a very limited extent) the physical world. It's speculated that Trelane may be a child Q. It's also possible that the Q are a far-future evolution of the Organians, who in Kirk's time exhibited the same powers as the Q and, like the Q, at one point displayed their physical avatars as blinding bursts of light.

[@nicosmind3]

All Q arent the same, it's only John De Lance that had the fascinating with humans. His blonde Q friend did say he understood John's fascination only after Picard tried to save his life. But every other Q showed indifference to humans

[@Antifag1977]

He's not the only one with unique individuality. There was his son, his wife/baby momma and another that wanted to end his life.. I think he started calling himself Quinn or Quincy. . Plus for them to have that civil war suggests that it wants just those 4 but rather almost half of the Q weren't feeling the whole homogeneous hive mind like existence.

[@ez-8238]

Well we all dont notice ants we step on right. Think of how many things you probably kill every day as you go through everyday life.

[@brentbartley6838]

There's at least one well written piece of Star Trek/Dr. Who fanfic called A Captain and a Madman that explained the Q are Timelords who went ahead with their Final Sanction as their Doctor decided not to stop them and they wiped out their universe while ascending to virtual godhood and after getting bored they created the Star Trek universe with DeLancie's Q actually once being The Doctor and explains his focus on humanity.

[@KillerBebe]

Actually, Q’s antics I believe or actually a cover so the continuum does not see that he is actually helping humanity. Look back at all the episodes with Q and you will notice a moral lesson is taught to the humans.

[@ClockworkWyrm]

This has always been kind of my take as well. If Q exist outside of linear time then it follows that they perceive their entire existence simultaneously. Thus Q when we first meet him in STtNG knows and has experienced everything Q in ST:P has. If that's the case Q's seeming growth over the run of the series should only be seen as Q providing increasingly complex information and questions based on the humans with whom he's interacting and thus he is slowly developing humanity, not Q.

[@rickbindhamer9596]

Trelane from STOS has been mentioned, but there is what I believe was another encounter with the Q in STOS. That was the episode entitled "Charlie X." The Enterprise crew soon learn of 17 year old Charlie's powers (and his temperament). At the end of the episode, Kirk tries to "overload" Charlie's attention, and that is when a shimmering alien face materializes on the Enterprise bridge and identifies itself as a Thasian, come to take Charlie back to the planet Thasus. It is my opinion that the omnipotent being was a Q (perhaps who was calling himself Thasian). Charlie's powers were exactly Q -like. As with Q granting Q-powers temporarily to Riker, so did "the Thasians" give Q powers to the human teenager Charlie. If they were to make a Q movie, I would like to see a return of Charlie and Trelane as adult Q.

[@magnaman1963]

I always figured Q was just a more "widespread" version of STTOS Squire of Gothos

[@ThemanlymanStan]

I think that the zalkonians are a good example of an intermediate species. That's the episode Beverly Crusher's patient turns into a being of light. Transfigurations TNG S3 EP25 They are shown to be on the verge of becoming Q like. They are on the brink of becoming non corporeal. John Doe has the power to regenerate, heal the injured, and even raise the dead. He could also stop his species' ship's attack himself unassisted. He also had the ability to nearly instantly heal the entire enterprise crew from the aftermath of the zalkonian ship using a weapon that asphyxiated everyone but data and John Doe. The traveler and his species first seen in TNG s1 ep 6 may also be close to Q like status. It's unusual, though, since the plot arc basically ends up leading to Wesley Crusher being able to have the ability to affect physical reality majorly from thought. It's also noteworthy to mention that even the crew were impactful on reality itself through their thoughts, though this was only when the traveler was present.

[@brushe8025]

What I would like to see is a description of the various powers of the q and organians. And who would win in a battle.

[@EgoCityGamingUK]

Ohh, looking forward to this video. 🍿

[@realmetatron]

The Q continuum represents the higher self, and thus the collective consciousness, of all angels. The individual Q are aspects of that collective mind, and the character of Q we are most familiar with is Archangel Metatron, who acts as the spirit guide of one of his own past lives, namely Picard. That is why Q appears to Picard as a spirit guide during his near death experience (the episode where Picard relives his life having made a different choice in his youth, which turns out to be a lesson by Q that even our apparent mistakes are actually not mistakes, which is a very common lesson in spirituality).

[@craigshuman5023]

It would be interesting to see more on the relationship between Q and Guinan or even more to Wesley Crusher's post "ascension" form or persona.

[@ENetArch]

What if the Q created a holodeck for the StarTrek universe to exist in? Just like TNG had holodecks, they could go in and out of at any point in time, and interact with it. One of the things I've been wondering is how would a Q loose their power to manipulate the holodeck .. they can just take away their access to the holodeck controls. Calling for the Arch doesn't work!

[@thisismyname007]

Trelane was a puckish, childlike alien introduced to several USS Enterprise crewmembers in 2267. That year, the Enterprise was en route to the Beta VI colony to deliver supplies when it encountered Gothos, a previously unknown planet, which was the homeworld of the powerful alien Trelane. 😊😊😊

[@rustybrooks8916]

There was a book written by Peter David I believe that explored the notion that Trelane was Q's son. That book is no doubt not canonical in anyway, but at the time it was really cool.

[@sargepent9815]

I was SO hoping that the 2nd season of Picard would have seen Q offer, even plead with Picard to become a Q himself since no other mortal....ever had intrigued him so much. That Picard can't be allowed to be "lost" to age and death. That Picard will be the 1st Human to become Q

[@Zurround]

I looked up the Q continuum on the Kardishev Scale wiki and the Q barely qualify as a 5 on the scale, they are almost at the very bottom range of the 5 on the scale and the scale on that site goes up to 9 or even higher. I think a hilarious story would be if a being that is a 9 or even an 8 on the kardishev scale were to encounter Q and toy with him the way Q toyed with Picard, with this other being seeming as godlike to Q as Q would seem to a human.

[@hawkstringfellow]

Plot twist the q are evolved humans from millions of years in the future

[@Lynxdoc]

I think that has been alluded to.

[@yougosquishnow]

Not thinking linearly doesn't mean parallel timelines. It means q doesn't move linearly through time. He can appear from an earlier point in time as he can move through time any way he wants.

[@rimasmuliolis1136]

I think the Q continuum began when Dekker and Ilea merged with Vger. That would be an explanation for Q's obsession with the captains.

[@WilliamHorsley1962]

Narrator is a mix of Twilight Zone narrator and Carl Sagan with a robotic English twist

[@borg111]

Why isn't there any reference to Q's interactions with the DS9 crew?

[@tawon1984]

Q is basically a live action version of Mister Mxyzptlk.

[@randybaumery-cp7tf]

Q is actually a lot like what Loki or Pan were supposed to be like.

[@TaliaIGhul]

Q in my theory, is one of the first species in the multiverse (or perhaps even the greater omniverse) to reach sentience. Somewhere between then and now, they had evolved to the god-like species they are now. They are not mortal in the convention sense. Because of that evolution, some of them had grown bored and play with mortals like Q and his son.

[@jeremyb465]

My theory, the Q are the evolution of the Midichlorians from Star Wars. Star Wars of course took place in a galaxy far far away and "a long time ago". But how long? Billions of years perhaps? Long enough for a microscopic species that relied on a symbiotic relationship with humanoids to one that is completely non-corporeal. Without the constraints of a physical body, a complete mastery of time, space and matter can be achieved.

[@stevencorrell6473]

Are they immortal or just by their nature living in basically all realities at the same time could it be more like the Q you just met may be exactly the same as the Q you met a week ago but it's a different Q making it seem like he's immortal

[@gmoney4980]

Holy heck! Y'all are CRANKING these vids out!

[@aptb944]

Just going to leave this here but I don't think it would be too much of a stretch for the Borg to evolve into the Q. That's why you don't mess with them and their shared conciseness seems similar, the Alorians might have sensed this and left scars on the Borg that the continuum fears in their non linear existence. Just a thought.

[@fr8trainUS]

Pretty sure you said Star gate universe, right at the beginning of the vid. Listening to this while I drive, had a "wait!? What did he say?" Moment

[@williamking9859]

I bet no knew that Trelane was a young Q, yes it is cannon!

[@Zurround]

No. Those Star Trek novels they sell at the book store are NOT official canon, its basically glorified fan fiction with way too many authors, like the metaphor of "too many chefs ruining the food" and many of those books contradict each other or the tv series and movies or are absurd (like the X men Star Trek Next Gen crossover).

[@Wind0demon0anime]

Is no one gonna talk about how Wesley crusher become a part of the continuum?

[@WilliamTaylor-h4r]

It was a great act at the time, it was like walking in on TV show I never get to watch, a sportsball game I was too cheap to pay for, or that 2015 Kingsmen movie I was too drunk to go see, that time my my dad left lake Shasta early when I was 11. My brother just only wanted money, like my sister. Its what your never getting back.

[@frankenfoamy]

Was anything in the titled explained?

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

I hoped that the whole TNG happend in Picard's mind. In the final episode we would see that Q had done his trial by letting him live all 7 seasons in just a few seconds and end the show by saying you are free to boldy go where no man has gone before...

[@igorscrob2888]

In fact, Q, if we take the Kautz scale as a basis, then these are timeless Divine Races or Civilizations of types 6 and 7. Let me remind you that humanity is at level 0.7, that is, not even the first.

[@chrisrodriguez7351]

Also if I were Janeway, I would have had Q's kid on the condition that he snaps Voyager back to the alpha quadrant

[@davidwhitworth4577]

Q/ as some eMTB can be expensive to buy, can you do a segment on where to insure your bike for theft ???

[@mequavis]

my theory is they ran across the nexus, and unlike the federation, studied it, and developed a contained version of a nexus wave that they have quantum entangled with their tech and selves. basically I think they channel nexus energy

[@mequavis]

fyi, q's death can be viewed as q closing the book on this iteration or timeline, he gave it away in that line about not being this iteration or whatever he said. so qs can cross timelines, and when they are done with one they can just close it like a book, and for anyone in that universe it would be like q dying....

[@jordil6152]

Q was created by Gene Roddenberry to fill out the running time of the TNG pilot.

[@hua_man]

My running theory is that the Q are Galactic level primordials and the galaxy (universe?) is their ooze.

[@Jack-yo2bc]

i wonder if q really is just one being and the colective and other qs are just the one being projecting itself in mutiple places at once its well wintin qs abiltys

[@LordLOC]

They've said before they are not all one "being" especially on Star Trek Voyager.

[@rhylin26]

I like your theory that the Q at the end of Picard S3 is the son of Q.

[@pse2020]

i know people like the character Q. But for me it was one of he more "fantasy" aspects of star trek i had problems with. although i have accepted it for what it is and i enjoy the Q episodes more today.

[@gatekeeper84]

If you are familiar with warhammer 40k it becomes rather obvious that Q is a warp god.

[@ace24680]

i always wanted q to meet the ones from original star trek that played the greek pantheon Zeus or was it one of his sons or brother lol been too long to remember

[@CollyDoo]

I always thought maybe the Q was humanity, but from the far distant future, as they share many human like values.

[@williampennjr.4448]

Q is Star Treks version of The Great Gazoo.

[@Zurround]

A better analogy than that Flinstone character is Mr. Mxylplck (sorry I never spell it right) from the SUPERMAN stories, a fifth dimensional imp who can do almost anything and has reality warping powers that rival or exceed the Q and he "tests" Superman with challenges much as Q "tested" Picard. One weakness he had was that he had to go back to his realm, the the "fifth dimension" was from a literary standpoint very similar to the Q continuum with other beings of his kind there. I almost think that Q was modeled after him. The characters are so similar that an old and now gone website from over 20 years ago called COMIC BOOK UNIVERSE BATTLES debated who would win in a conflict between Q and Mr. Mxylplck. Q won by getting more votes. The character that to me is most comparable to THE GREAT GAZOO from Flintstones was ORCO from HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE first introduced in 1983 in the tv cartoon. Orco and Gazoo both have awesome powers. Orco's are literally magical while Gazoo's are a science and technology so advanced that it SEEMS like magic but technically its science. Both are friends to the main characters (Gazoo to Fred and Barney and Orco to He Man and his allies) and MEAN WELL but due to being incompetent and maybe pathetic when compared to others of their species their magic or science keeps failing or glitching or not working in the intended manner. I suspect that since Orco was created nearly 2 decades after Gazoo was introduced that the He Man writers were trying to create a Gazoo like character but utilizing magic and sorcery instead of science and technology. It is not lost on me that though its glitchy (at least when he tries to use it as opposed to others from his world) Gazoo has science and technology far beyond even what we see in the JETSONS which arguably takes place in the same fictional universe as Flintsones due to the cartoon movie involving time travel where the Flintstones meet the Jetsons. It would have been cool if Gazoo used his own time travel powers to sometimes appear on the Jetsons to "befriend" THOSE CHARACTERS.

[@RadenVijaya]

I was thinking that Q will assume younger form when he is tormenting Jack...

[@shaunreilly8097]

Q did show how they procreate. In an episode of voyager Q approached janeway to do the deed but when she declined Q went with his long term love and creates a baby Q by touching fingers with a female Q while Janeway watched on. Janeway "was that it?" Q "you had your chance"

[@Mirpurmad]

Q intrigues me. I loved this video . I suspect the current woke crusade will update and diversify the Q beings as well soon.

[@Victor-bl2ge]

The Q can literally be whatever they want and have been like that since day 1. Take your "mUh SjWs!" whining out of here.

[@Mirpurmad]

@@Victor-bl2ge ahh we got one here already... go where and when Q.

[@Victor-bl2ge]

@@Mirpurmad just leave. ST was "woke" since day one when uhura kissed Kirk and the south had a hissy fit.

[@Mirpurmad]

@@Victor-bl2ge I already asked.. go where Q?

[@benitodigantenbrink4261]

You still left a few questions unanswered. E.g. Who Created Q? What's Their Purpose? How Did They Attain God-Like Powers?

[@NaturalFuture]

Q is not at all the "clown" some have painted him over the years, and therefore have featured him less than a handful of times over the years. Rather, he is a powerful inspiration. In this age of transhumanism, Q should be viewed as an end-goal to which future humanity may attain. Yes, Q needs a full Star Trek movie all about the Q. Also, I think his becoming old and dying is Hollywood nonsense.

[@rustybrooks8916]

Here is my theory about the Q, and it stems from what Q said about humanity one day surpassing them - I think the Q were created by humans, and this is why they fascinate them so much. They probably started off as some form of artificial intelligence that eventually evolved beyond that. They are a collective, but they desire to understand what it means to be an individual. At some point in time humans undergo some sort of transcendental ascension, probably beyond the boundaries of space and time, and left their Q creations to find their own development. These transcendent humans don't really care if the Q mess around with humanity and its timeline because at their level of development such concepts no longer apply to them, thus rendering them immune to any changes in the timeline.

[@gocpng4699]

Worth Examining

[@rxonmymind8362]

Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't Q refer to the Guardian of Forever as someone of his race and said something to the effect "at least they knew hownto build something" meaning a race older than the Q?

[@camerongunn7906]

My favorite Q moment is when he gets punched by The Mothafuking Sisko.

[@kimbelsimpson7535]

In my own opinion all of the BEST Star Trek episodes were the ones with Q in them.

[@Zurround]

Debatable. 2 of my absolute favorite Next Gen stories were RELICS (the Dyson's sphere totally fascinated me, its almost inconceivable, and we got Scotty back) and PARALLELS (It was the first time I am aware of that the many world's theory of quantum mechanics was addressed on tv, that was a totally fascinating episode) Also, I am fascinated by TEMPORAL ANOMALIES, not generic time travel stories where they go back in time but stories where time itself gets totally bizarre and there were several temporal anomaly stories that did not have Q.

[@kimbelsimpson7535]

@Zurround Me too, I'm fascinated by Star Trek, period I've been a fan of that show since 1966 when I was only 5 years old and have watched every movie and TV series that came out after it throughout the years except the ones on pay TV. I even loved the Orville because that show had TREK written all over it and I got really pissed when they took it off the air and moved it to Paramount. It's my hope that our society becomes as mature and advanced as the Star Trek universe because to me that would be a dream come true even if I'm not around to see it.

[@Zurround]

@@kimbelsimpson7535 I am not a trekkie but my favorite science fiction villain is KHAN and WRATH OF KHAN is one of my favorite movies. Khan was such a damned interesting character and being morally complex and not purely evil made him so different from the generic black hat wearing mustache twirling bad to the bone villains that were mostly on tv back then. He was a villain with a different AGENDA and MIND SET and not some boring Saturday morning cartoon villain that goes "he he he!! I'm evil ha ha ha".

[@kimbelsimpson7535]

@Zurround I like Khan too because he came from an Era where he had to be ruthless to get what he wanted like in the barbaric past and the only difference was is that he was a genetically enhanced human who not only wanted to rule the world but he gave a damn about his people. Check out the original Star Trek episode Space Seed and you'll know what I'm talking about. The movie version is good but the original TV version hits home.

[@Zurround]

@@kimbelsimpson7535 Yes, very different from Saturday morning cartoon villains like GI Joe or He Man where the villains have no caring or affection for each other. He genuinely cared about his followers and even though he was using her a little he still loved That woman, Lieutenant McGyvers even though she betrayed him by rescuing Kirk and foiling his plans to take over the enterprise. In the novel TO REIGN IN HELL, THE EXILE OF KHAN NOONIAN SINGH he even told her that he does not blame her for what she did due to her having been put in too big a moral dilemma and that he blamed himself for what happened. He was absolutely NOT the kind of evil the criminal gang in the movie ROBOCOP were.

[@thomasschreiber9559]

When he would appear and disappear I wonder if they used the same method they used on Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanne. All the actors would freeze and whoever was disappearing would move out of the camera shot then t he actors would continue with the scene. They would later edit it to make it look like they vanished

[@equinsuocha8905]

I was really hoping in the new Picard show, that Picard would run into Negelum again but this time with Q in tow, and they have a showdown

[@solidicone]

I always liked Q as a character in TNG and the other series he appeared in. He had a very interesting character arc that took about thirty years to wrap up in Picard season 2. That ending by the way, I thought fit perfectly between picard and Q. He really did follow up on his statement that Picard was the closest thing to a friend he had in the cosmos and he proved it at the end. I get why some people don't like Q, its basically a god running around doing whatever he wants. I like how they approached it through. Even though Q appeared to just be an asshole in his earlier apperances he reveals his actual motives over time and ultimately everything he did was for the benefit of humanity, even if he did get some people killed along the way. I always wondered what would happen if Q had interacted with the Daug or whatever that guy called himself in that earlier episode of TNG where the enterprise answers a distress call and just finds an old man and woman in their house on the planet. That character said he eradicated an entire species with a single thought which is why Picard opted to just leave him there and tell people to never visit the planet.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Kevin Uxbridge was a Douwd. He was lonely, and therefore could have been the last or perhaps only one of his kind. Definitely similar to Q in power levels but perhaps not able to manipulate time, as he could have prevented the attack on the colony, if he could.

[@solidicone]

@@Thurgosh_OG Yeah. Q definitely has the edge in spectrum of powers but just sorta unsatisfying to have that loose end hanging out in the lore that is never mentioned again.

[@equinsuocha8905]

I always wanted Q to have a showdown with Negelum, the pseudo omnipotent creature the Enterprise D ran into while in an odd void.

[@shaunablack]

Is Q Loki?

[@charlietuba]

Was Trelane (the Squire of Gothos) part of the Q Continuum?

[@Jurassicparkfan1025]

Q is a mood 😂

[@shadoman7682]

Q could have evolved (ascending to a higher being) at the end of the universe billions of years in the future. Because they can time travel, they now exist thought all of times. Q could be far distance ancestors of all the species combined DNA and technology. This also explains the fascination they have for humanity.

[@Xegethra]

It's not so paradoxical that you can have so much power and have these emotions and feelings....Greek Gods and the like were rife with that stuff. Having such power doesn't have to make you a blank slate.

[@shaydowsith348]

the greek gods appear in TOS. (At least Apollo does).

[@reaality3860]

Meanwhile, here on Earth, human beings came from the dust of the ground for the purpose of making plastic. Earth couldn't do it without us. -- George Carlin.

[@jimmywoolever798]

I also enjoy George Carlin

[@reaality3860]

@@jimmywoolever798, yes, He's the best.

[@MiddleDigit]

"The Q" are a good metaphor for the fallen angels.

[@Erekose2023]

Where did the 'Q' come from? Some managed to survive by splitting their Dark Side, their Monster of the ID, which bacame pools of oilly goo that they imprisonned on unihabited planets. And in this way the Q'rell did manage to survive and move on. (shame really that Dr Morbius got the spelling wrong *wink*)

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

The Continium is what the federation is to a pre warp drive planet

[@Zurround]

Actually the Q are as far ahead of the Federation as the Federation is ahead of the STONE AGE, NEANDERTHALS. Federation is 2.5 on Kardishev scale and Stone age is zero. Q continuum is 5. Forget "pre warp drive" which is what Earth is NOW, Federation trying to comprehend the Q is like Stone age people trying to figure out how to create fire trying to comprehend the federation.

[@seanmorgan2356]

This narrator used to do an SCP channel that I really enjoyed.

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

How should we know the purpose of Q? For the most part Star Trek has only featured one of them. Is he typical of his type?

[@TammieJohnson-r4e]

They seem to forget that Q first appeared in the original Star Trek show. Not on TNG.

[@marvenlunn6086]

Trelane Q's son according to a novel

[@hotcyclonis]

In Picard series q died of old age.. might wanna check again he was confused and couldn't control his powers then as Picard finished his last task q dies

[@acropolismauve8496]

Dude, how many prompts did you type to get the AI to make your script?

[@TTV-OXIDE145]

I barely watch tng as a child and remebr my grandfather was obsessed he said that picard was the true defintion of a man a person unrelnting in his quest for knowledge and universal peace and understanding

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Where/how do Q store memories?

[@DavidHanniganJr]

Where was it established that they were a hive-mind species? Not that I'm doubting you I'm just curious because this is the first I've ever heard of it.

[@magical_catgirl]

Nowhere.

[@victormendoza3295]

The IRS is higher than the Q. But really I read a Q book that talked about a higher being.