Star Trek: Q Feats
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 2:19 am
Q feats both shown and implied.
It would appear Q powers can at least effect everywhere in an entire universe at once.
Q claims to be god, and has Picard try living though his life if Picard had played it safe, and this would imply Q have power over souls.
Did i miss anything?
The Q are the type of being who subtilely meddle to cause events to play out a certain way. The Q make sure the proverbial butterfly flaps in the direction they want it to. Everything in Star Trek is the way it is because that is how the Q planned it to be it seems.Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 02 Episode: 18 Title: Death Wish wrote: Q: If I may beg the court's indulgence, I have other witnesses to call.
JANEWAY: To what end?
Q: Your Captain Honour, I am here to argue for the majesty of life. What it means to us to be alive. A Q's life takes him to all corners of the universe. This Q's life has touched and affected many, many others, including some on your own homeworld. With your permission, I would like to call some of those people whose lives have been changed by this Q.
JANEWAY: You want to bring people here from Earth?
Q: I promise it won't impact the timeline, and no one will remember ever having being here after I send them back.
JANEWAY: This is most unusual. Do you have any objection, Mister Tuvok?
TUVOK: I am as curious as you are, Captain.
JANEWAY: Very well. Proceed.
(Q snaps his fingers and three men appear - a hippy, a man in a full-bottomed wig and a bearded Starfleet Commander.)
RIKER: Q. What the hell is going on?
JANEWAY: My apologies, Commander. To you all. My name is Kathryn Janeway.
RIKER: Captain Janeway. USS Voyager.
JANEWAY: That's correct, Commander. You're aboard Voyager. We're lost in the Delta Quadrant, and as much as I wish you could tell them that when you get home, your memories will be wiped before you get back.
GINSBERG: God, if you let me live through this, I promise I'll clean up my act. I swear.
NEWTON: I demand an explanation. Why are you dressed like this, young man?
GINSBERG: Man, have you looked in a mirror lately?
JANEWAY: Allow me to try to explain, Mister?
GINSBERG: Ginsberg. Er, Maury Ginsberg.
NEWTON: Sir Isaac Newton.
RIKER: William Riker. Nice to meet you.
JANEWAY: Consider for a moment that it might be possible to travel forward in time, say to the twenty fourth century, onto a starship seventy five thousand light years from Earth.
(Blank looks.)
JANEWAY: You're having a very strange dream, and in this dream, you're seeing this man whom you've all met before.
NEWTON: Yes I have seen that man before. You were sitting under the tree the day
Q: The day the apple fell on your head?
NEWTON: Yes. That's right.
Q: Quite a day, wasn't it? As a matter of fact, this man jostled the tree when he got up to leave.
NEWTON: Just before the apple fell, yes.
Q: And a new era in human science was born.
GINSBERG: Wait a minute. Weren't you the guy in the jeep?
Q: The guy in the jeep, who picked you up after your own vehicle broke down that summer afternoon, isn't that right?
GINSBERG: Oh, man, he was a lifesaver. My van died and they dragged it off the road because of all the traffic. It was backed up for miles.
Q: You were on your way to a job, weren't you?
GINSBERG: Yeah, I was supposed to be on the follow spot up on tower three. I never would have made it in time if it weren't for him. Hey, whatever happened with that groovy chick with the long red beads in the back seat? I've been looking for her ever since you dropped me off.
QUINN: You'll see her again, don't worry.
Q: To sum up, you were a spotlight operator at an outdoor concert of some sort. A concert that was put in jeopardy moments before it was to begin, because the entire sound system failed.
GINSBERG: Oh, it was no big deal. Somebody must have snagged an extension cord with one of the trucks, that's all. I'm just lucky I noticed it.
Q: Yes, lucky you were at the right place at the right time, or it would have taken days to track down the problem and there would have been no concert.
RIKER: Well, I'm sorry to say I have met him, but I've never seen this man before in my life.
Q: Are you sure?
TUVOK: Has it not been established that my client has in captivity during all of Commander Riker's lifetime?
Q: Have you seen this photograph before?
(On an easel, a sepia picture of two Civil War soldiers.)
RIKER: Sure I have. That is Colonel Thaddeus Riker after he was wounded at Pine Mountain. They used to call him Old Iron Boots. He was in command of the Hundred and Second New York during General Sherman's march on Atlanta. This picture was taken in eighteen sixty four, just after they let him out of the army hospital.
Q: And the soldier beside him?
RIKER: I'll be damned. It's him.
Q: As a matter of fact, he carried your wounded ancestor back from the front line. Didn't you? My point is, Captain, that Q has had a profound influence on these three lives. Without Q, Isaac Newton would have died forgotten in a Liverpool debtor's prison, a suspect in several prostitute murders. Without Q, there would have been no concert at, er.
QUINN: Woodstock.
Q: Wherever. More importantly, Mister Ginsberg would never have met his future wife, the groovy chick with the long red beads, and he would never have become a successful orthodontist, settled in Scarsdale with four kids.
GINSBERG: Far out.
Q: Yes. Without Q there would have been no William T. Riker at all, and I would have lost at least a dozen really good opportunities to insult him over the years. Oh, and lest I forget, without Q, the Borg would have assimilated the Federation. Thank you. Thank you.
(The witnesses vanish.)
Q: This is the life Q treats without respect. This is the life that he would give up so easily.
TUVOK: May I remind this hearing, and my learned colleague, that for three centuries, my client has not been allowed contact with anyone. At this time, we would like to reproduce the environment in which he has been confined.
Q: I object.
JANEWAY: No, I'll allow this.
They scanned the Q prison so thoroughly that they knew what it tasted like, but still thought it was a comet. These are scanners that work on the quantum level.Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 02 Episode: 18 Title: Death Wish wrote: (A comet is on the viewscreen.)
CHAKOTAY: It's trajectory is erratic, and our sensors aren't detecting any stellar or planetary gravitational fields that could account for its motion.
JANEWAY: Then you're saying it isn't a comet.
CHAKOTAY: And yet it looks, feels, and tastes just like a comet.
JANEWAY: Well, there's a slight chance that there are magnetodynamic forces acting on the comet that are too subtle for our sensors to detect. Or it might be something we've never encountered before. B'Elanna, go down to Transporter room two. Let's beam aboard a sample for examination.
TORRES: Aye, Captain.
JANEWAY: Harry, see if you can lock on to a core fragment.
KIM: Having no trouble penetrating the crust, Captain.
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QUINN: Please, eat. It's the least I can do to express my appreciation.
JANEWAY: Appreciation for what?
QUINN: For letting me out of my captivity.
JANEWAY: You were being held against your will, inside the comet?
QUINN: In a manner of speaking. And you, all of you. You're mortals, aren't you?
JANEWAY: Who was holding you prisoner?
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 02 Episode: 18 Title: Death Wish wrote: KIM: Captain, I don't believe this, but according to my readings, we're being attacked by protons. We've been reduced to subatomic proportions.
QUINN: He'll never find us here.
JANEWAY: Mister Tuvok, see if you can release a positive ion charge to repel them.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 02 Episode: 18 Title: Death Wish wrote: CHAKOTAY: I'm showing a large build-up of baryonic particles.
QUINN: Perfectly normal.
TUVOK: Captain, based on our readings, it appears we've been transported back in time to the birth of the universe.
QUINN: Very old hiding place.
Q: Oh, I know all the hiding places, Q. I hid here from the Continuum myself once.
TORRES: This ship will not survive the formation of the cosmos.
Q turned Voyager into a Hallmark Voyager Christmas Tree ornament in order to try to hide from Q. THis is perhaps the most amazing feat a Q has performed as it shows Q seem to be active even in universes where Star Trek is fictional.Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 02 Episode: 18 Title: Death Wish wrote: JANEWAY: Oh, now what?
PARIS: Checking. We seem to be tethered to some kind of large plant.
JANEWAY: Let's see it. Computer, I need a wider angle.
(They are an ornament on a Christmas tree.)
Q: [on viewscreen] You can't hide from me, Q.
Humans can not properly perceive the Q's natural environment as it truly is.Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 03 Episode: 11 Title: Q and the Gery wrote: Q: This is no fantasy. You're in the Q Continuum. JANEWAY: The Continuum?
Q: That's right. I'm simply allowing you to perceive it in the context your human mind can comprehend.
Q weapons seem to cause False Vacuum Metastability events that punch holes into other universes as collateral damage?Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 03 Episode: 11 Title: The Q and the Grey wrote: FEMALE Q: Try to wrap your minuscule mind around this. These supernovas are actually caused by spatial disruptions within the Continuum, the result of the war. Now, each time a star implodes, a negative density false vacuum is created which actually sucks the surrounding matter into the Continuum.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 03 Episode: 11 Title: Q and the Gery wrote: Q: Well, I'll admit, I look at the universe in an entirely different way now. I mean, I can't go around causing temporal anomalies or subspace inversions without considering the impact it'll have on my son.
JANEWAY: I'm glad to hear you intend to set a good example.
Q: By the way, did I tell you how smart he is? I've already taught him how to knock small planets out of orbit.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Voyager Season: 07 Episode: 19 Title: Q2 wrote: Q2: Don't bother. I trapped your crew in a temporal loop. They keep experiencing the last thirty seconds over and over. Almost as monotonous as drone boy's essay.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Deep Space Nine Season: 01 Episode: 07 Title: Q-Less wrote: Q: Are you sure you're feeling up to it? You look tired.
BASHIR: I feel fine.
Q: No, no, no. You look tired. Very, very tired.
(Q yawns and Bashir catches it)
BASHIR: Funny, I do feel a bit, a bit spent. Maybe I should go and lie down for a few minutes.
Q: Hopefully by yourself for a change.
(Q has been recognised)
O'BRIEN: Bloody hell.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: Deep Space Nine Season: 01 Episode: 07 Title: Q-Less wrote: SISKO: Bring them back, Q, now!
Q: Or what? You'll thrash me? Shall we settle this mano a mano?
(Everyone is back, and Q and Sisko are 1900s bare-knuckle fighters)
Q: Marquis of Queensberry Rules?
SISKO: What?
Q: Fisticuffs, pugilism, the manly art of self-defence. (Q hits Sisko) Come on. Isn't this all wonderfully barbaric? Go on, take a poke at me. I know that's really what you want to do. Come on.
QUARK: I'll wager five bars of latinum on Sisko.
VASH: You're on.
Q: Fight back. This is supposed to be brutal.
(Q punches Sisko three times in the face, then Sisko blocks his arm and pile-drives into his solar plexus. Q falls)
QUARK: You can pay me out of your profits from the auction.
Q: You hit me Picard never hit me.
SISKO: I'm not Picard.
Q: Indeed not. You're much easier to provoke. How fortunate for me.
Q are powerful psychics who can generate walls in space that are large enough to stop starships that casually travel and maneuver at speeds faster then.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 01-02 Title: Encounter at Farpoint wrote:TROI: Captain, I'm sensing a powerful mind.
(Collision alert sounds)
TORRES: Something strange on the detector circuits.
(A massive barrier appears in front of them in space)
DATA: It registers as solid, Captain.
TROI: Or an incredibly powerful forcefield. But if we collide with either it could be very
PICARD: Shut off that damned noise. Go to Yellow Alert.
WORF: Shields and deflectors up, sir.
(The barrier ripples like chain mail)
PICARD: Reverse power, full stop.
TORRES: Controls to full stop, sir. Now reading full stop, sir.
(There's a flash of light, and an Elizabethan era soldier appears, complete with breast plate and plumed hat)
Q: Thou are notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately.
PICARD: That's quite a directive. Would you mind identifying what you are?
Q: We call ourselves the Q. Or thou mayst call me that. It's all much the same thing.
Q froze someone alive without killing them or raised them from the dead.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 01-02 Title: Encounter at Farpoint wrote: Q: I present myself to thee as a fellow ship captain, that thou mayst better understand me. Go back whence thou camest. (to Helmsman) Stay where thou art!
(And the helmsman is frozen solid, phaser in hand)
PICARD: Data, call medics.
TROI: He's frozen.
PICARD: He would not have injured you. Do you recognise this, the stun setting?
Q: Knowing humans as thou dost, Captain, wouldst thou be captured helpless by them? Now, go back or thou shalt most certainly die.
Q seems to create life on a whim.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 01-02 Title: Encounter at Farpoint wrote: (The crew find themselves in a room with a noisy audience. One of the future soldiers that Q pretended to be, fires his machine gun for silence. An Oriental man takes charge)
BAILIFF: The prisoners will all stand.
(Picard sits down)
DATA: Historically intriguing, Captain. Very, very accurate.
PICARD: Mid twenty first century. The post-atomic horror.
BAILIFF: All present, stand and make respectful attention to honoured Judge.
TROI: Careful, sir. This is not an illusion or a dream.
PICARD: But these courts happened in the past.
TROI: I don't understand either, but this is real.
SOLDIER: Get to your feet, criminals!
(From the distance, a spotlight reveals a figure approaching, dressed in red, and sitting on a throne carried on hydraulics for effect)
DATA: At least we are acquainted with the judge, Captain.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 10 Title: Hide and Q wrote: (sand and rocks under a green sky with yellow horizon)
RIKER: Where are we?
DATA: Obviously a class M world. Gravity and oxygen within our limits.
LAFORGE: Twin moons. Where are we?
DATA: Considering the power demonstrated by Q the last time, anywhere. Assuming this place even exists.
RIKER: But this won't be boring. If Q is anything, he's imaginative. Apparently our Captain wasn't meant to be with us here.
It does not seem like much, but Picard is trapped alone on the bridge of the Enterprise-D, can't reach anyone with the communication systems, and no one seems to know he is trapped or that the bridge crew is gone implying there may be some sort of temporal manipulation taking place.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 10 Title: Hide and Q wrote: [Bridge]
PICARD: Security, this is the Captain. Security? Engineering, this is the Bridge.
(Control panels don't operate. Doors don't open)
PICARD: Turbolift Control, do you read? This is the Captain.
(But answer came there none)
Q creates life, fully armed soldiers from "nothing".Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 10 Title: Hide and Q wrote: Q: Strange gratitude, from one who has been granted a gift beyond any human dream. How can you not appreciate being able to send your friends back to their ship, or sending the soldiers back to the nothingness from which they came? Certainly, you must understand that at this moment you can send yourself back to the ship or to Earth, or change your shape and become anything else you want to be.
THe Q are infinite dimensional beings, and claim to be able to turn other "lesser beings" into Q.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 01 Episode: 10 Title: Hide and Q wrote: Q: Riker, we have offered you a gift beyond all other gifts!
RIKER: Out of the goodness of your heart.
Q: After Farpoint, I returned to where we exist. The Q Continuum.
RIKER: Which means exactly what?
Q: The limitless dimensions of the galaxy in which we exist.
RIKER: I don't understand.
Q: Of course you don't, and you never will until you become one of us.
RIKER: Until? Would you mind going over that again?
Q: Well if you'll stop interrupting me. This is hardly a time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe. However, at Farpoint we saw you as savages only. We discovered instead that you are unusual creatures in your own limited ways. Ways which in time will not be so limited.
RIKER: We're growing. Something about us compels us to learn, explore.
Q: Yes, the human compulsion. And unfortunately for us, it is a power which will grow stronger century after century, aeon after aeon.
Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: Q: These aren't my colours. And what are you blathering about, Riker?
PICARD: What kind of twisted pleasure does it give you to bring terror into their lives?
Q: Whose lives?
PICARD: The millions of people down there who are watching as their moon falls out of the sky.
Q: I haven't the vaguest idea what you're talking about and I have a much more serious problem. I'm no longer a member of the Continuum. My superiors have decided to punish me.
PICARD: And punish us as well, it would seem.
Q: They said I've spread chaos through the universe, and they've stripped me of all my powers. You don't believe me, do you? Do you think I would humiliate myself like this?
RIKER: If it served your purpose, yes. Q: It's the truth. I stand before you defrocked. Condemned to be a member of this lowest of species. A normal, imperfect, lumpen human being. TROI: They made you human as part of your punishment?
Q: No, it was my request. I could have chosen to exist as a Markoffian sea lizard or a Belzoidian flea. Anything I wished as long as it was mortal. And since I only had a fraction of a second to mull and I chose this and asked them to bring me here.
Space/Time manipulationFranchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 02 Episode: 16 Title: Q Who wrote: [Turbolift]
PICARD: Deck nine. Officers' quarters.
[Shuttlecraft]
(But instead of a deck, he steps out into a shuttlecraft in space)
PICARD: Crewman? What is going on?
Q: Welcome, Picard, to shuttlecraft six.
PICARD: Q.
Q: There, there, haven't we been careless. A little cleaning service I'm only too than happy to provide.
(A wave of the hand and the uniform is clean again)
PICARD: We agreed you would never trouble my ship again!
Q: I always keep my arrangements, sir. Look, we're nowhere near your vessel.
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TROI: Where's the Captain?
RIKER: In his quarters?
TROI: Captain, this is Counsellor Troi.
RIKER: Computer locate Captain Picard.
COMPUTER: The Captain is not on the ship.
WORF: Commander, there is a shuttle missing from bay two.
RIKER: All stop.
WESLEY: Answering all stop, sir.
WORF: I have hailed the shuttle on all frequencies. No response.
DATA: Sensors indicate no shuttle or other ships in this sector.
RIKER: We think we can assume the Captain is aboard that shuttle.
WESLEY: How could he get to the shuttlebay and leave the Enterprise without us knowing? That's not possible.
RIKER: Take it easy, Wes. We're going to find him. I want to begin a methodical search. Worf, set sensors on maximum scan. Data, use our present location as a centre. Plot a search pattern from these coordinates to cover the most area in the least time.
DATA: Search pattern has been input, sir.
More Space/Time manipulationFranchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 02 Episode: 16 Title: Q Who wrote: Shuttlecraft]
(Q is doing his Virgil Hilts impression with a baseball, glove and bulkhead)
Q: Do we stay out here years? Decades? I am ageless, Picard. You are not.
PICARD: The Enterprise will continue with Riker as Captain.
Q: You are an impossibly stubborn human.
PICARD: Return me to my ship!
Q: If I return you to your ship, will you agree to give my request a full hearing?
[Ten forward]
(a seamless transition to an empty room)
Q: You're right Picard. This is the proper venue for our discussion.
(Guinan pops up from behind the bar)
Q was kicked out of the Q Continuum, but kept his powers implying Q powers are derived from the Q itself.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 02 Episode: 16 Title: Q Who wrote: Q: After our last encounter, I was asked to leave the Q Continuum. Since then, I've been wandering vaguely, bored really, my existence without purpose. Then I remembered all the good times I had with you.
THis implies Q has either knowledge of the future, or has given some thought as to when and where the United Federation of Planets will likely meet groups like the Borg and Dominion. It seems that the events of Q Who were meant to get the Federation out of its complacency, and to get it to start worrying about what might be out there again.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 02 Episode: 16 Title: Q Who wrote: PICARD: yes. Absolutely. That's why we're out here.
Q: Oh, the arrogance. They don't have a clue as to what's out here.
GUINAN: But they will learn, adapt. That is their greatest advantage.
Q: They're moving faster than expected, further than they should.
PICARD: By whose calculations?
Q: You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you have encountered so far. The Romulans, the Klingons. They are nothing compared to what's waiting. Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can possibly imagine, and terrors to freeze your soul. I offer myself as guide only to be rejected out of hand.
Q knew the Borg was already only 7000 light years from the Federation. Even at they oddly slow travel times given in the episode, the Borg was only about 2 years away from Federation space. This would imply that either Q arranged for the Borg to be there, Q is clairvoyant, or Q is far larger then he seems to be.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 02 Episode: 16 Title: Q Who wrote: [Bridge]
DATA: According to these coordinates, we have travelled seven thousand light years
[Ten Forward]
DATA [OC]: And are located near the system J two five.
RIKER: Travel time to the nearest starbase?
DATA [OC]: At maximum warp, in two years, seven months, three days, eighteen hours we would reach Starbase one eight five.
It would appear that Q can strip Q of their powers if enough help.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: Q: These aren't my colours. And what are you blathering about, Riker?
PICARD: What kind of twisted pleasure does it give you to bring terror into their lives?
Q: Whose lives?
PICARD: The millions of people down there who are watching as their moon falls out of the sky.
Q: I haven't the vaguest idea what you're talking about and I have a much more serious problem. I'm no longer a member of the Continuum. My superiors have decided to punish me.
PICARD: And punish us as well, it would seem.
Q: They said I've spread chaos through the universe, and they've stripped me of all my powers. You don't believe me, do you? Do you think I would humiliate myself like this?
RIKER: If it served your purpose, yes.
Q: It's the truth. I stand before you defrocked. Condemned to be a member of this lowest of species. A normal, imperfect, lumpen human being.
TROI: They made you human as part of your punishment?
Q: No, it was my request. I could have chosen to exist as a Markoffian sea lizard or a Belzoidian flea. Anything I wished as long as it was mortal. And since I only had a fraction of a second to mull and I chose this and asked them to bring me here.
Q do not seem to feel pain under normal circumstances.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: Q: I think I just hurt my back. I'm feeling pain. I don't like it. What's the right thing to say? Ow?
Q powers seem to be akin to a human controling their body. We don't really know how we do it, but we just do it.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: Q: This is obviously the result of a large celestial object passing through at near right angles to the plane of the star system. Probably a black hole.
DATA: Can you recommend a way to counter the effect?
Q: Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.
LAFORGE: What?
Q: Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the asteroid.
LAFORGE: Redefine gravity? How am I supposed to do that?
Q: You just do it. Where's that Doctor, anyway?
It would appear Q powers can at least effect everywhere in an entire universe at once.
Q do not seem to normally need to eat.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: Q: There's something wrong with my stomach.
CRUSHER: It hurts?
Q: It's making noises.
CRUSHER: Maybe you're hungry.
An I.Q. of 300 is extremely high for a human if not impossible.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: GUINAN: Just one of the boys, ay?
Q: One of the boys with an IQ of two thousand and five.
Q makes it so that Data can temporarily feel human emotions. Data needed a physical upgrade to feel human emotion.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 03 Episode: 13 Title: Deja Q wrote: Q: Humans are such commonplace little creatures. They roam the galaxy looking for something, they know not what.
DATA: The human race has an enduring desire for knowledge, and for new opportunities to improve itself.
Q: There's certainly room for improvement, but the truth is, Data, they are a minor species in the grand scheme. Not worth your envy.
DATA: Oh, I do not feel envy.
Q: Well, that's good.
DATA: I feel nothing at all. That is part of my dilemma. I have the curiosity of humans, but there are questions I will never have the answer to. What is it like to laugh, or cry, or to experience any human emotions.
Q: Well, if you ask me, these human emotions are not what they're cracked up to be.
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Q: Yes, once again I've overstayed my welcome. As a human, I was ill-equipped to thank you, but as myself you have my everlasting gratitude. Until next time. Ah, but before I go, there's a debt I wish to repay to my professor of the humanities. Data, I've decided to give you something very, very special.
DATA: If your intention is to make me human, Q.
Q: No, no, no, no, no, no. I would never curse you by making you human. Think of it as a going away present.
(Q vanishes, and Data turns into a quivering heap of helpless, contagious laughter)
LAFORGE: Data? Data, why are you laughing?
DATA: I do not know. But it was a wonderful feeling.
WORF: Captain, Bre'el Four is hailing us.
Q seems to have at the very least created a planet if not a universe simply to tease Picard Playing role playing games with a Q could be rather dangerous.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 04 Episode: 20 Title: Qpid wrote: Q: It's your choice, Robin. You can either take your ease in this sylvan glade or risk your life to save the woman you care nothing about.
PICARD: My feelings toward Vash are irrelevant. I would attempt to save any innocent life, as you well know.
Q: Yes, but what about your merry men? Are you willing to jeopardise their lives as well? Is Vash's life worth more than Data's or Troi's or Worf's? You know, Worf, you'd make a perfect throw rug in Nottingham Castle.
PICARD: Q, I ask you to put and end to this before someone gets hurt.
Q: Oh, that's impossible. You see, I've given this fantasy as you call it, a life of its own. I have no more idea what's going to happen than you do. But of one thing I am absolutely sure. If you dare come to Nottingham Castle, blood will be spilt.
A Q can seemingly create life on a whim without even doing it on purpose.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: AMANDA: Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no. I didn't mean it.
(I count ten puppies)
AMANDA: You guys can't stay here. (some vanish) Come on, all of you.
(she picks up the last two)
AMANDA: Hello. Come here, little one. You too. Come on, come on.
(she puts them down and they vanish)
Reverses a warpcore breach.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: LAFORGE: this is the main control area. We can access any of the primary circuits from all of these panels. Over here is a Jeffries tube.
AMANDA: Where most of the major conduits are routed.
LAFORGE: You've been doing your homework.
AMANDA: It's hard to imagine how much energy is being harnessed in there.
DATA: Imagination is not necessary. The scale is readily quantifiable. We are presently generating twelve point seven five billion gigawatts per
(an alarm goes off)
DATA: Temperature in the reaction chamber has increased by forty seven percent.
LAFORGE: Injector couplings are frozen. I can't slow down the reaction.
DATA: Temperature increase is at one hundred six percent and rising.
LAFORGE: La Forge to Bridge! We're looking at a core breach! We're going to have to try and vent the plasma!
DATA: Plasma inductors are not responding.
LAFORGE: We're going to lose containment. All right, everybody out of here now. Let's go! Let's move it! Data, bring down the isolation door. We're going to have to eject the warp core.
(the chamber explodes, but Amanda holds out her hands and pushes the reaction back inside and seals it again)
DATA: Temperature in the reaction chamber has returned to normal.
The laws of physics are easily ignored by Q.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: LAFORGE: No, sir. Everything was normal and then suddenly it's like the laws of physics went right out the window.
Q: And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient.
Amanda's parents were executed by the other Q, but they did not use the weapons from "Q and the Grey".Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: Q: Bon jour, mon Capitane. You wanted to talk with me?
PICARD: I wanted to ask you about Amanda's biological parents. When they decided to remain on Earth, what was the reaction in the Q Continuum?
Q: We found it incomprehensible.
PICARD: Were they pressured to return? Were they threatened with any punishment if they didn't?
Q: What are you driving at, Picard?
PICARD: Well, the circumstance of their death's quite odd. A tornado somehow escaped the weather modification net and touched down in only one spot. Amanda's home.
Q: Well, you never can predict the weather.
PICARD: But tornadoes develop from existing storm fronts. But you see, there were no storm fronts in Kansas that day. Witnesses reported that the funnel materialised spontaneously directly over Amanda's home, destroyed it, and disappeared.
Q: If you say so. I wasn't there.
PICARD: Were Amanda's parents executed by the Q Continuum?
Q: And what if they were?
PICARD: Then I think she has a right to know that before she makes a choice about her future.
Q: Don't be foolish, Picard. She has no choice. She never did. If she's truly Q, then she must return to the Continuum where she belongs. But if she were some kind of hybrid, neither human nor Q, then (a gesture)
PICARD: You would be so despicable?
Q: Don't be naive. You have no idea what it means to be Q. With unlimited power comes responsibility. Do you think it is reasonable for us to allow omnipotent beings to roam free through the universe?
PICARD: So what have you concluded? Does she live or does she die?
Q: I haven't decided yet.
A Q can casually sit in a working reactor that is generating 12.75 billion gigawatts.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: DATA: If we can use phase buffers we may be able to devise a mechanism that can be integrated into the present system while it is in operation.
(Amanda appears. Data and Geordi stare at her. She's about to leave when Q sticks his head out of the warp core)
Q: You're still thinking like a human.
A Q can transform one life form into another on a whim.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: Q: You wouldn't be capable of interfering.
CRUSHER: I don't think it's too much to ask for you to do the same.
(Beverly is suddenly turned into a red setter dog. Amanda restores her to human)
CRUSHER: And you stay out of mine.
Q: Well, when you put it like that, I think you're absolutely right.
Powerful mind control.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: (Both are in Regency clothing)
RIKER: What is this all about?
AMANDA: I thought it might be nice to spend some time alone together.
RIKER: I think it would be nice if you took us back to Ten Forward.
AMANDA: Are you sure you wouldn't want to stay here with me for a while? The moonlight is so beautiful. Isn't it nicer here than at Ten Forward?
RIKER: Yes, it's very pleasant, but that's not the point.
AMANDA: Oh? I think it is.
(She puts her arms around his neck)
RIKER: No. You can't just snatch people and put them in your fantasies and expect them to respond.
AMANDA: Don't you like me? Even just a little bit?
RIKER: You're a very lovely young lady. But none of this is real.
AMANDA: My feelings are real.
RIKER: I know. But you can't make someone love you.
AMANDA: Can't I?
(and with a small gesture)
RIKER: Oh, Amanda. You are so beautiful.
(he kisses her neck)
AMANDA: Do you love me?
RIKER: More than anything.
AMANDA: You're right. None of this is real. I thought it would be romantic, but it's empty.
RIKER: Amanda.
AMANDA: Just go back to Ten Forward.
Given Q stated he could alter the Gravitational constant of the universe it is very possible he is understating the possible threat Amanda could pose.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 06 Title: True Q wrote: Q: Instruct here. If that child does not learn how to control her power, she may accidently destroy herself. Or all of you. Or perhaps your entire galaxy.
Q is talking to Picard seemingly in a/the after life as Picard is dead.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 06 Episode: 15 Title: Tapestry wrote: CRUSHER: What happened?
RIKER: The Lenarians attacked us outside of the conference room.
(Picard has a big hole in his chest)
CRUSHER: He's in cardiac arrest. Connect the pulmonary support units. He's got internal haemorrhaging. The bioregulator of his artificial heart's been fused. He's got liver and spleen damage. What kind of weapon caused this?
WORF: A compressed teryon beam.
CRUSHER: Forty cc's inaprovaline. The activity in the isocortex is falling. Cortical stimulators. Now. (Picard jerks) Again. His respiratory system is shutting down. The levels in the isocortex are still falling. Damn. Prepare a four percent series
[Limbo]
(A bright white void. There is a figure also in shimmering white nearby). Picard touches it's hand and then sees who it is.)
Q: Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc. You're dead.
PICARD: Q, what is going on?
Q: I told you. You're dead. This is the afterlife, and I'm God.
PICARD: You are not God.
Q: Blasphemy! You're lucky I don't cast you out, or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago, under the inept ministrations of Doctor Beverly Crusher.
PICARD: No. I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.
Q: Very well. If you really require more evidence of your post-mortem status, I guess I'll just have to provide you some.
MAURICE: Jean-Luc, I told you not to go running off to that Academy.
PICARD: Father.
MAURICE: I told you that Starfleet would bring you to a bad end, but you wouldn't listen. Now look at you. Dead before your time.
PICARD: Q, enough of this.
Q: Enough what?
MAURICE: Why couldn't you have listened? Didn't you know that I was working for your best interests?
PICARD: Q, stop this.
MAURICE: After all these years, even now, you manage to disappoint me, Jean-Luc.
Q: He's not the only one who'd like to have a word with you.
WOMAN [OC]: Why, Jean-Luc? Why did you do it?
CREWWOMAN [OC]: Captain, there are still people down there. You can't abandon them.
CREWMAN [OC]: There must be some other way, Captain. Some other choice than firing on them.
MAN [OC]: If you continue on this course. A direct hit, sir. The ship is destroyed.
Q: These are the voices of all the people you've killed throughout the years.
PICARD: Whom I've killed? What do you mean?
Q: Death has made you a little dim, Jean-Luc. These are the voices of all the people who have died through your actions or your inactions. Now, if you have any words of apology or regret, I believe they're all listening. They're a surly bunch, actually, so don't drag this out too long.
PICARD: I've no intention of performing for your amusement.
Q: This is not for me. This is for you, Jean-Luc. This is your opportunity to make peace with your sordid past.
PICARD: I find it hard to believe that you are doing this for the benefit of my soul.
Q: Well, now that you've shuffled off the mortal coil, we're free to spend a little time together.
PICARD: A little time together? How much?
Q: Eternity. Now, you're sure you have no regrets or feelings of guilt about your former life? I can't have you whining and complaining through time.
PICARD: If I'm really dead, then my only regret is dying and finding you here.
Q: You wound me, Jean-Luc. After all, I was not the cause of your death. This was.
(He holds up the contraption Kate Pulaski put in him all those seasons ago)
PICARD: Is that?
Q: Your artificial heart. You might have lived if you had a real one instead of this unreliable piece of technology. By the way, how did you lose yours anyway?
PICARD: A mistake.
Q: Is that a regret I hear?
PICARD: I regret a great many things from those days.
Q: Really?
(A Nausicaan and a young man in old-style uniform are fighting. Then a second Nausicaan joins in, and a third stabs the man through the back. The blade sticks out of his chest. The young man falls to his knees, looks at the knife point and laughs, then falls to the floor.)
Q: It wasn't very smart of you to take on three Nausicaans, was it?
PICARD: No, it wasn't.
Q: And did I hear a laugh? It's so unlike you, Jean-Luc, to have a sense of humour, especially about getting stabbed through the back.
PICARD: I was a different person in those days. Arrogant, undisciplined, with far too much ego and too little wisdom. I was more like you.
Q: Then you must have been far more interesting. Pity you had to change.
PICARD: The pity is that I had to be impaled through the back before I learned that lesson. I started that fight with those Nausicaans. I started it because, because I was young and cocky. If I'd been more responsible in those days, I wouldn't have needed this heart, and I wouldn't have died from a random energy surge thirty years later.
Q: So, if you had it to do all over again?
PICARD: Things would be different.
Q claims to be god, and has Picard try living though his life if Picard had played it safe, and this would imply Q have power over souls.
The Q seem to have no fear of Anti-time particles, and this would seemingly imply they are not effected by time.Franchise: Star Trek Series: The Next Generation Season: 07 Episode: 25-26 Title: All Good Things wrote: DATA: It is, in essence, an eruption of anti-time.
PICARD: Anti-time?
DATA: A relatively new concept in temporal mechanics. The relationship between anti-time and normal time is analogous to the relationship between antimatter and normal matter.
PICARD: So if time and anti-time were to collide
DATA: They would annihilate one other, causing a rupture in space. I believe this is what happened in the Devron system. The rupture may be sending out waves of temporal energy which are disrupting the normal flow of time.
PICARD: Data, what could have caused this collision of time and anti-time?
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Q: No.
PICARD: Is there any connection between the trial seven years ago and whatever's going on now?
Q: I'd have to say yes.
PICARD: The spatial anomaly in the Neutral Zone, is it related to what's happening?
Q: Most definitely yes.
PICARD: Is it part of a Romulan plot, a ploy to start a war?
Q: No and no. Five down.
PICARD: That's only four.
Q: Is it a Romulan plot? Is it a ploy to start a war? Those are separate questions.
PICARD: Did you create the anomaly?
Q: No, no, no. You're going to be so surprised when you realise where it came from, if you ever figure it out.
PICARD: Are you responsible for my shifting through time?
Q: I'll answer that question if you promise you won't tell anyone. (in Picard's ear) Yes.
PICARD: Why?
Q: Sorry. That's not a yes or no question. You forfeit the rest of your questions. I expected as much. You're such a limited creature. A perfect example of why we made our decision. The trial never ended, Captain. We never reached a verdict. But now we have. You're guilty.
PICARD: Guilty of what?
Q: Of being inferior. Seven years ago I said we'd be watching you, and we have been, hoping that your ape-like race would demonstrate some growth, give some indication that your minds have room for expansion. But what have we seen instead? You worrying about Commander Riker's career, listening to Counsellor Troi's pedantic psychobabble, indulging Data in his witless exploration of humanity.
PICARD: We've journeyed to countless new worlds, we've contacted new species, we have expanded our understanding of the universe.
Q: In your own paltry, limited way. You have no idea how far you still have to go. But instead of using the last seven years to change and to grow, you have squandered them.
PICARD: We are what we are, and we're doing the best we can. It is not for you to set the standards by which we should be judged.
Q: Oh, but it is, and we have. Time may be eternal, Captain, but our patience is not. It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars, make room for other more worthy species.
PICARD: You're going to deny us travel through space?
Q: You obtuse piece of flotsam. You are to be denied existence. Humanity's fate has been sealed. You will be destroyed.
PICARD: Q, I do not believe that even you are capable of such an act.
Q: I? There you go again, always blaming me for everything. Well this time I'm not your enemy. I'm not the one that causes the annihilation of mankind. You are.
PICARD: Me?
Q: That's right. You're doing it right now. You did it before and you'll do it again.
PICARD: What sort of meaningless doubletalk is this?
Q: He doesn't understand. I have only myself to blame, I suppose. I believed in you. I thought you had potential. But apparently I was wrong. May whatever god you believe in have mercy on your soul. This court stands adjourned.
Did i miss anything?