Talk:Q (Star Trek)

message: It always seem to me that Q was "God." Isn't he God, in effect. I love God aqnd I love Q. I know I'm an old stupid  drunk jerk. But what I'm I Missing here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kornbelt888 (talk • contribs) 05:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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The Procrastinator 18:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deity

message: I am curious if anyone has explored a connection between this character, and the Q gospel (Quelle/source)?  I think if you compare the two, there's lots and lots of parallels, ironies and otherwise there.
Shensey (talk) 09:54, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q gospel 

message: I have made a new article at Q Continuum for info about the race, have taken most of the necessary info from this page to leave this page as a page about the character Q. If people spot any omissions or anything, please correct.. cheers! Rob.derosa 13:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Q from Q Continuum 

message: I may seem nitpicky, but are Q's eyes really brown? I've been watching the episodes in the Q box set, and in a few scenes his eyes look signifigantly lighter. I think they may be green. Being green eyed myself, I often get confused for a brown eyed person. I will change it unless anyone has any problem with it. Or rather, do we even need an eye color for him? - Defunctzombie 00:16, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most certainly. 84.182.107.244 18:45, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eye Color 

message: The sentence "This unchanged attitude..." is very confusing, I think.  The previous sentence says he "reverted" suggesting a change (contradicting the phrase "unchanged attitude").  Second the quote refers to a trial which is not otherwise mentioned in the article.  The following sentence says that this quote "makes the two episodes contiguous."  Which two episodes, and how?  Also, I don't think contiguous is the proper word here, perhaps consistent?  I don't have sufficient knowledge to fix the article myself, but if someone else would undertake the work, I would be appreciative.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 01:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear paragraph 

message: "Some fans have come to believe that Q was somehow attracted to the stoic captain, and it could be argued that there is something flirtatious in the way Q teases Picard." - "Some fans" is not a source, and "it could be argued that" is one of the specific examples given on WP:WEASEL. --Grey Knight ⊖ 13:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untidiness 

message: Can an omnipotent being commit suicide?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.42.202.67 (talk) 06:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is dealt with in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish". — Val42 (talk) 19:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Don't you hate it when they never give an answer? The answer is yes.
-G  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 02:10, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omnipotence 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:STDS9Ep107.jpg

message: The article currently states "Events later shown in the prequel Star Trek: Enterprise suggest the Borg were already on the way when Q introduced them and Picard to each other." This is simply incorrect to my understanding.  The Borg were found on Earth because of the events of First Contact, where were because of the events of "Q Who?".  The dialogue in the relevant Enterprise episode confirms that Cochran had spoken about aliens from the future.  There is, to my knowledge, nothing in canon supporting the idea that "the Borg were already on the way"...  I'm going to take this sentence out unless anyone has an issue? Dphilp75 (talk) 00:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: go for it. But the sentences that follow all are written as part of a narrative to support this sentence. It will require a re-write in order to remove that one. Smitty1337 (talk) 01:30, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite right.  I'll give it a day to see if anyone else wants to chime in and then change it... Thank you! Dphilp75 (talk) 02:05, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is actually canon that supports this (as well as non-canon "behind the scenes" material. In the episode "The Neutral Zone", prior to "Q Who", several colony worlds along the border of the Neutral Zone have been destroyed in the same way that the Borg were shown to have destroyed the worlds they assimilated later, and according to the "Star Trek Next Generation Companion", the intent of the writers was that the worlds destroyed along the Neutral Zone had been destroyed by the Borg. So the Borg were already in the area. Later in Voyager we learn that the Borg had already assimilated the Hansen family, and were therefore familiar with humanity. So while the specific concept that the Borg were on their way was the result of the time loop caused by Q Who -> Best of Both Worlds -> First Contact -> Enterprise, there's ample canon support for the notion that the Borg were already familiar with humanity, had already assimilated some Federation colony worlds, and therefore the likelihood that humanity would *not* have confronted the Borg had Q not intervened seems utterly implausible. AlaraJRogers (talk) 22:42, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  One needs to consider that scripts for such a long and complex projects are often inconsistent and can be somewhat contradictionary. The use of the Q outside STNG series is not fully consistent. --Kmhkmh (talk) 23:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borg introduction to humanity 

message: I haven't seen "All good things..." in a while, but as I remember, the fact that humanity was about to be destroyed was actually indirectly Q's fault.  He caused Picard's shifting in time, apparently just to screw with him, knowing that Picard's time shifting would lead to the end of humanity.  This article seems to paint Q's intentions in that episode as being more benevolent, saving humanity as if we hadn't caused it.--Louiedog (talk) 08:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "All good things..." 

message: Is Q based on the Great Gazoo from the Flintstones, at least in part? -- Ssilvers (talk) 15:22, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Flintstones

message: In the "Behaviour" section there is a piece that describes Q's capabilities with his Omnipotence. However this includes Time Travel, and the ability to manipulate/stop time. The impression i've had from Q is that he was NOT able to actually travel or manipulate/stop time and that it was an Illusion or Fantasy created by Q for his own amusement. Correct me if i'm wrong, but he doesnt appear to have any knowledge of future events. 86.10.190.227 (talk) 23:19, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time Travel 

message: True Q and Qpid were left out -- if you're going to list almost every episode Q appears in, you might as well be complete.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.221.3.23 (talk) 20:26, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other TNG episodes 

message: 'He serves as a major antagonist in the beginning of The Next Generation. During the early seasons of The Next Generation and later over the later seasons of The Next Generation and Deep Space 9, Q evolves from an enemy to a full-fledged hero by Voyager.' - I certainly would not describe Q at any point of his character development as 'heroic' and certainly not as a 'full-fledged hero'! He's a complex character, and at times he torments the characters for fun, other times to teach them a lesson, and sometimes because he needs help, but at no point is he heroic! I'm going to change this sentence. --Imagine Wizard (talk · contribs · count) Iay amay Magineiay Izardway. 17:34, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Here, here! Good, needed change. Ckruschke (talk) 18:07, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heroic?! 

message: I was wondering if anyone thinks there might be a connection to Q source, the hypothetical primary biography of Jesus which collected his sayings and were the written basis for compiling the gospels. This is a new though to me just now, but I thought perhaps since Q seems to explain Star Trek Next Generation in a mysterious way, and that the character himself is not defined as a single person.. Well, I'm still sorting the details in my mind. But does anyone else think this is possible? --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 16:34, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q source? 

message: I thought I read or watched a documentary that the alien in the Star Trek Episode, "The Squire of Gothos" (From Star Trek, The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 17, original air date: January 12, 1967https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squire_of_Gothos) who called himself "General Trelane, Retired" (and also told the Star Trek crew that they were welcome to call him "General Trelane, retired", "Squire Trelane", "Squire" and "The Lonely Squire of Gothos") was the first Q and more specifically, a child Q. 
With that said, I thought that the very first sentence in this Wikipedia page would start something like this, "Q is a fictional character in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation," and etc. I was hoping that someone (on the main Wikipedia web page) would point out that even though Gene Roddenberry might not have given the name "Q" to "General Trelane", in the original Star Trek TV series, but that one can surmise that Roddenberry had obviously thought of a god-like being (or actually a family of god-like beings) either before or during the first season of the original Star Trek TV series (which aired from 1966 to 1969https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series). MikeWest (talk) 01:02, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: , is never explicated in the series/movies (canon) if Trelane is a member of the Q Continuum or if he's related with the TNG Q. John DeLancie said here that both characters have a lot of similarities and - maybe - Roddenbery directly or indirectly thought about Trelane when he developed, Q but it we may never know. This is also discussed here and is said that Trelane is a member of the Q Continuum in the non-canon book Q-Squared. Erick Soares3 (talk) 22:22, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Star Trek, The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 17, "The Squire of Gothos"?