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[–] 31 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Q pretty much only helped humanity.

Yeah, he’s chaotic, but introducing Picard to the Borg before the Borg showed up and steamrolled them was a massive gift.

Even the earlier trial of humanity and temptation of Riker served to strengthen their resolve and principles so they didn’t go all Sisko everywhere when the Borg arrived.

I hope Picard and the federation eventually looked back on Q as the gift that he was.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

    It was always a mixed blessing. For instance, with the Borg, while it did forewarn them, it also brought them into contact much earlier than they would have naturally.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    The Borg were only 2 years away from a star base at Enterprise’s maximum warp. We know they can go faster, and that they used warp conduits.

    We can probably say within 2-5 years the Borg would have found almost all Alpha quadrant major powers, and likely would have overwhelmed at least some of them.

    Voyager established Borg presence in the Alpha quadrant decades before Q who, at least, and Enterprise had them on Earth centuries ago.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    That last one is the result of First Contact time shenanigans.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago

    Wasn't the start of that episode the enterprise trying to ascertain why some outlying colonies had gone dark? The borg were just studying the federation at that point; if they'd had more time they could have become even more dangerous

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  • [–] 20 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    They really shoulda had John de Lancie voice Sanguine in Skyrim.

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  • [–] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    For some reason the TNG and VOY writers decided to make Q evil-ish in the late TNG years. What is a complete change of character, because he is clearly a fan of humanity on his first appearances.

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  • [–] 11 points 12 hours ago

    They got old, started creaking and found the taste bitter. It's personal experience leeching into their characters and their stories. And I'd say the writers themselves, knowingly or not, lost that feeling over time.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I mean, hulk is pretty good at handling trickster gods.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    "What do I have to do to convince to you I'm mortal!!??"

    "Die."

    Legendary lol

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago*

    The problem isn't whether you can deal with them, it's all the other voters/backers/supporters/fellow-tricksters.

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