I love how Riker gets whisked away to the other side of the galaxy and is still immediately ready and eager to give a Powerpoint presentation about Colonel Thaddeus "Old Ironboots" Riker.
To the Q time and space is a meaningless concept. They exist outside of time so such things to them are trivial. Time and space is real but imagine being able to simply take something from one place and put it in the other place light years away.
Neutrinos can be in two places at once. They pass through solid matter even though our laws say that's impossible. They seem completely autonomous but still somehow able to communicate wherever they are between each other.
@@kairon156 I would guess he plucked them out of time and put them back at the exact same moment that he snagged them, with no memory of what occured. But it'd be a nice gesture if he let Riker have his memories.
I met the REAL Q at a Star Trek convention in 1991, their was a cute high school girl in the autograph line in front of me, she was so shy meeting him that she stumbled over her words and eventually dropped the picture that he had just autographed for her. I've bent down and picked it up, she smiled and said thank you, I smiled back, and proceeded to get John De Lancie's autograph. He said to me-"The two of you just had a moment."- and I went, oh we did didn't we, I then walked over to her and introduced myself. We have been married for 25 years and have seven children. But the youngest one looks like Q. Coincidence, I think not.
@@gtpliquid1290 Newton was gay. Like many historical figures, his relationships with men were tastefully described as "Friendship/Conpanionship." It was understood by society but not talked about. Some of his private correspondence survived and revealed his intimacies with a Swiss mathematician named Fatio.
@Daniel Appleton big deal. We are, after all, talking about two generations separated by several hundred years. I can accept that they bear little or no resemblance to each other. What I CAN'T accept, however, is that the Q in the photo does not look like the Q sitting trial on Voyager.
Daniel Appleton you watch way too much tv if you honestly believe ancestors look that much alike, let alone over that many generations. I don’t even look like my grand father. Hell, I don’t even look like my dad.
To be fair, I have many "photos" from that time period. Many personal photos were hand painted (not even airbrushed) to cover damage to the image. I have old images of relatives from that time period that look like that. It was a bad restoration job from the actual time period. My own Great Great grandparents have an image that looks kinda messed up just like this. Everyone looked kinda distorted (ever see Billy the Kid's original photo? it's super weird looking) :D
I met Q around 1991 at a convention. Got to talk to him and shake his hand. He is almost like his character in real life. A very funny guy to boot. Was a pleasure to meet him.
he is really arrogant in real life too. Patrick Stewart was asked if the two get along and he avoided answering it twice. In other shows he's been on, including charmed and stargate, the commentary is hilarious because whoever is talking about him say the guy is full of himself
Fun Fact: it was originally supposed to be Levar Burton instead of Johnathan Frakes. But he was unavailable during filming. So they went with Frakes... still worked out well.
@@TheMrPeteChannel Still love that one story where Geordi got in Qs face in anger so Q sent Geordy to Trois shower while she was taking one. He slipped, reached out for something to stop his fall and caught a hold of a certain body part of hers. While Troi was royally pissed off at Q and smacked him, Geordi took it in good humor and Q appreciated that and said Geordi was one of the few humans he liked.
I like how Newton doesn't even look phased by the fact that he would have died in the debtor's prison, nor that he's a murder suspect. That dude did things.....
Nah, more of a referrence to how badly justice was done in those days. There was no forensics. Hell, half the cops were following blind faith, and knowing there's some guy who's got tons of crazy stupid ideas, they'd be tempted to jail him out of some diluted justice.
True, Human. It wasn't until Robert Peel and his Bobbies that modern policing started to form. Still today, almost 200 years later the UK is still following his principles with policing.
“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.” XD
2 things wrong with your comment. 1 you wasted our time and yours typing out exactly what we just heard in the video. 2 you typed XD which stands for nothing. Means nothing. Does nothing and is just plain stupid.
@@mikemorgan2211 XD is an emoticon expressing joy or more specifically laughter. It is well recognized in online circles and has existed in that form for decades. Used in this context it conveys the writer's appreciation for the humour in that line. Unless you only began using the internet a few weeks ago, you've probably encountered the expression in that form at least once, meaning you likely are just irritated by it. Your feigned ignorance of it's does not excuse your malicious rudeness. Just because you personally may have decided that it means nothing doesn't affect the fact many, many others recognize it's meaning.
I always thought Q should have allowed Riker to remember this. It wouldn't alter the timeline-Riker was contemporary. All it would have done is let Starfleet know Voyager was still intact.
Which would alter the timeline. Since Starfleet wasn't supposed to know Voyager was still intact INTEL the Dr transmit himself to a prototype star ship through tge HAROGIN communications stay sone time later.
Q exists in pretty much all of the timeline. He's shown ability to travel through time in many instances, including this episode. So allowing Riker to remember does change the timeline for him as he knows it....not that changing the timeline has bothered him in the past.
Got to enjoy how Riker rolled his eyes when the well known Q mention the teasing and torment he enjoyed putting Riker through and did make a solid point of rescuing Picard from the Borg
Of COurse, it WAS Q who put The ENterprise in contact with the Borg LONG before they should have, which caused the Borg to come afer the federation. SO the one Q is fine, but Joh DeLancie always played a Q that was like a Pilitician's incorridgable kid that knew he had Intergalactic immunity
Fun fact: Will Riker says that Colonel Riker was in command of the 102nd New York Infantry. In Lower Decks, Riker has a cap from that regiment in his ready room on the USS Titan
@@-M0LE Gene Roddenberry was a thief and alleged rapist. Rick Berman is documented as a sexist misogynistic pig who actively tried to destroy the careers of anyone he couldn't control. Show me examples of Kurtsman being anywhere near that level of unbridled shittiness. Otherwise fuck off with your elitist gatekeeping retardedness.
The irony here is that Johnathan Frakes co-starred in the 1980s Civil War miniseries "North & South", which included Patrick Swayze, Jimmy Stewart and Jean Simmons (who played Admiral Sati in TNG's "The Drumhead".
Without Riker the Borg would have assimilated the Federation, a fact we saw first hand in the episode where Worf had to deal with alternate timelines, including one where the Borg was everywhere.
It never occurred to me til now that Tuvok's logic was faulty in arguing that Q was imprisoned during Riker's lifetime, since the Q Continuum are not bound by the constraints of linear time.
I got that fromwhen I first saw this, esp. given they went back to the Big Bang before all this. But the writers also forgot, so don't feel too bad. They had this guy save one of rikers Ancestors instead. Thouh I do find it odd, given they had Issac Newtonand the Wodstock guy there... How eactly did the writers forget about Time Travel?
Perhaps, the way Q continuum handles this, is to imprison him with no chance of visiting those 300 years, as if he will always ends up in that rock, if he visits that specific year. =P
@@hajkie ~ Nah, that wouldn't work, because if they decided to end his imprisonment, then if he visited any of those years he'd be unjustly imprisoned.
He introduced the federation, through the enterprise, to the borg earlier than without his intervention. Thus causing the federation to start work on addressing their capabilities.
@@Torsin2000 They were on their way to the Alpha Quadrant anyway after the events of First Contact and the season 2 Enterprise episode, "Regeneration".
@@TheCoolCucumber I think the Borg were on their way to that general area and would have met some Federation ship in a few decades. Then after assimilatinf the ship they gain intel on the federation and start invading and assimilating. The Federatioon fights back but isn't powerfull enough to stop them and the Borg win. This happens because in the time diference between Q interference Borg 1st contact and the natural later Borg 1st contact that would have taken place with out Q's meddeling the Borg probably assimilate many other civilisations and their tech and becoe more powerfull. A more powefull Boeg is too much for the Federation to handle. And since the Q like humanity for some reason (a pet project, thay may see their past selves in humanity, or they can be evolved humans from a distant future that are beyond the limits of time) the Q decided to speed things up a bit so humanity and the Federation have a more even chance.
I read that as him (partially) crediting the *other* Q. After all, William T. Riker *did* save Earth and the Federation while Jean-Luc Picard was...indisposed.
Don't forget y'all, before Q, there were TNG episodes, way earlier in the season, about cities in the neutral being torn from the ground, as if, "some great force pulled them up". In otherwords, the Borg, at least a cube, was within the vicinity of Federation space, via the Neutral Zone for sometime.
I hardly think that Newton would have been forgotten if "the apple hadn't fallen on his head". There was also his work in optics and in calculus, among other things. He was productive for his whole life.
@jon pork No one doubts the importance about calculus, but I highly doubt kids learning about famous scientists are gonna immediately associate Newton with calculus.
The apple was merely an anecdote to explain gravity to the public. One hardly needs to be struck by a falling apple to ponder why things go down rather than up. or anywhere. Not I, but Newton was well aware of the phenomenon. The man was a genius, after all.
Considering how many people went to the thing someone had to have been profoundly effected by it enough to change history in some way. Quite a few people were probably conceived their if nothing else.
Yeah boomer logic is right. A spotlight operator at Woodstock is about as important as Issac Newton laying the foundation for all of modern physics. Yep.
Something that always made me go "hmmm" in Star Trek was when they talked about the "past." I thought most historical records were wiped out during the eugenics wars and whatnot.
only the records about GENETIC ENGINEERING & the KHAN PEOPLE were erased to prevent that from being remade PICARD season 2 rewrote that so KHAN and 1000 other EASTER EGGS could be thrown in
A bitter sweet moment of coming into contact with a prominent figure in star fleet, got to be said, I would of found the loss of the opportunity to send a message back with Will, to be very difficult
It's because Q knows that being a Captain is the best there is. As a wise man once said: Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do *anything* that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
Q saved my ass from accidentally putting diesel in my unleaded gas engine! (I had driven a diesel up to that point) Thank you Q! Without you, I would have never made it to that girl’s house on that first date and my four kids would have been that other guy’s children!
He didn't forget the Q we all know and love (?). When he said he had "never seen this man before" he was referring to the smiling guy sitting in the chair who was also a member of the continuum and therefore also Q. Confusing, I know, but ALL members of the continuum are known as Q.
@@Tbonyandsteak There's a question that's always been bugging and confusing me: Why are Q entities always calling their names Q when they could instead use a new name like Kim, Alice, Tom, Ben, Bobby, Al Capone, Blackbeard, Dalek Sec, Dalek Thay, Dalek Jast, Dalek Caan, Mo, Rachel, James, etc? They should give themselves actual different names instead of just one name because otherwise people are gonna be so confused that they can't tell them apart or even call them by their actual name. Amanda Rodgers is the only Q (actually she's half Human/half Q) who has a actual name. She doesn't even call her name Q. If I was turned into a Q entity I prefer to keep my original name James Mark Martin Olberding.
@@jamieolberding7731 I bet it is something alchemist terms. When the male and female is united. Q is a symbol for female. A symbol of unification that all is one, hence all share the same name. Coooough!!! Borgs.......
Great to see Riker on Voyager, but a shame he never said goodbye or good luck to Janeway before he was whisked back to his proper place in time. I'd like to know if Janeway informed Riker of this meeting ever taking place after Voyager had safely returned home.
He went to Earth to save Riker's ancestor, but didn't stand like 20 feet out of shot because he didn't have the foresight to realize the photo would be used against him by Q.
The Q are famously narcissistic, though. I 100% believe that blond Q would have done that, totally uncaring of the repercussions to the timeline, just like familiar Q is the trickster constantly messing with Starfleet members because he finds their reactions to his awesome power funny.
@@BenjiQ575 It's kinda like how Sisko and the Defiant crew went into the past unintentionally, but only to save Kirk. In the end, he took this opportune time to praise Kirk as a disguised ensign what an honor it was to serve under his command, even if it was just a temp post.
There was a TNG episode that showed Data playing poker on the holodeck with Newton and Stephen Hawking. I think the fourth was a fictional genius from the future.
April 5, 2063 Can you please upload these two requested scenes from one of my favorites "Star Trek: Enterprise" Season 2 Episode 20 "Horizon?" 1. "That's no turbulence" Alien Pirates Attack and Attached Subspace Tracking Device on ECS Horizon scene. 2. ECS Horizon fights back against the Alien Pirates.
Not quite true, if you go back and rewatch The Next Gen episodes in order, you see that the Borg actually started assimilating Federation colonies before the Federation ever found out who they were. It's true the ship the Enterprise meets is in the Delta Quadrant, but that doesn't mean there couldn't have been ones closer too.
@@jonmartin444 ~ In fact they did quite an excellent job maintaining the continuity of Human/Borg interactions over TNG, Voyager, and even Enterprise, as well as First Contact. People argue that Enterprise broke continuity when they had the Borg episode, but that's not true. If humanity's and the Borg's first ever encounter had been in TNG, then how did Seven of Nine's parents know the Borg existed, and travel out to try and find them when Seven was a child? (And _that_ doorway was opened when 'First Contact' brought time travel to Earth into the mix.) And like you pointed out, the Borg were obviously already aware of humans and romulans, since they were starting with outposts along the neutral zone. So the timeline all fits, even if sometimes details are missing in the earlier stuff, since they didn't have all the details fleshed out.
The Borg were already there. Season one's final episode, "The Neutral Zone." Romulan and Federation outposts were both attacked. Borg. The writer of the episode initially planned a multi-part episode arc to introduce the Borg, but the 1988 writers strike put a fork in that plan leaving a very poorly written and half-finished episode. In "Q Who?", when the Enterprise first meets the Borg, Data describes the planet's destruction as "identical to what happened to the outposts along the Neutral Zone". All that being said, Q, in a callous way, granted the Federation a sneak peek which allowed them to prepare better defenses for later confrontations. Q is correct here.
The whole thing was explained in the Picard series. The Borg knew from the causality loop as they have temporal awareness knowing humans would end up destroying them so that was the motivation.
Things of equal importance to humanity, according to Q: - The foundations of physics and calculus - Not being destroyed/assimilated by the Borg - Woodstock
"Without Q the Borg would have assimilated the Federation" Well, maybe. But if it wasn't for Q flinging the Enterprise in the path of that first cube in Q Who?, Riker wouldn't have had to step up in the wake of Wolf 359.
@@TheCaptainSplatter What defenses though? In Best of Both Worlds they clearly establish that the Federation still has no means to defend against the Borg. All they had was a general idea of the coming threat. Valuable, to be sure... but we'll never know how the Federation would have fared against the Borg without it.
Q saw that the Borg was coming..and in earlier seasons Q had said that humanity was evolving and he wanted to see that evolution..that's why he threw the Enterprise in front of the Borg cube to help prepare for them
@@Norvo82 Rotating shield polarities and rotating phase emitters gave the federation a chance to defend it's self especially in the battle of sector 001.
In a hundred years in the future, the Federation would have reached the Delta quadrant and encountered the Borg. By introducing the Federation to the Borg early, Starfleet was able to design warships that would be needed to fight against The Founders, who would have crippled the Federation and allowed them to be assimilated by the Borg with ease.
john de lancie's Q is arguing here that the other Q was important to humans, including ensuring RIker was born and RIker was greatly responsible for stopping the Borg. But I just realized my first statement was an error, as our Q's point here is spot on.
In an epoisode in which the Voyager is taken back to the Big Bang, and made into a Christmas Tree Ornament from hallmark, and in the very scene in which Issac Newton and a guy from Woodstock stood there, the objection is the Q was imnprisoned before Riker's Lifetime... er, what? Also, why not brign Rikers Ancestor? Why Riker? This should have been something this Q did for Riker himself.
It's weird how humans enforce the prime directive as much as they can but the Godlike species violate it for fun, even go back in time to satisfy their ego.
pls remember, if a Q's actions has too many serious unintended consequences, that Q can go back and correct it with a snap of their fingers. Humans cannot
It is not. In Data's poker game the British actor who portrayed Sir Isaac Newton was John Reginald Neville. In this Voyager episode the British actor was Peter Dennis (who also played Admiral Hendricks in the Voyager episode Friendship 1 of the 7th Season/ Ep 21)
It's better that it's not the same actor. Data's holodeck simulation can only approximate the character of a man who died in 1727. Q has the power to summon the real Issac Newton from across space and time.
@@martynstembridge7714 I got a bit paranoid that somehow Google/TH-cam knows that I (*cough*) "downloaded" the original series on Blu-ray a few days ago... (Just out of nosiness, you understand)
In universe, Voyager was on her way home during the events of DS9. They were taken to the Delta quadrant in 2371, two years before the battle of Sector 001 and four years after Wolf 359. The series runs from 2371-2377. DS9 was set from 2369-2375. So they missed the Dominion war. But yes, DS9 premiered before Voyager. DS9 ran 1993-1999 and Voyager ran 1995-2001.
This was the last episode of voyager I saw before I quit the show. When Q gives her the opportunity to send her home with no strings attached as a thank you and she refuses. If I were on the bridge I would have said she doesn't speak for everyone and taken him up on the offer.
Q is truly a concept that can never be achieved again in storytelling 👏 he's a god but he's always got the time to bully Riker and teach Picard a valuable lesson 😂
Nope, you misunderstood Q's plan. The Borg were already expanding towards federation space. It was just a matter of time before first contact, which would've been well within federation space. Q made the federation aware they should not act all high and mighty. He gave them a good kick in the rear, putting us arrogant humans in our place and giving us a lot more time to prepare beforehand. Just observe how cocky they are with their fancy new "Galaxy class" starship initially. Heck even the name sounds arrogant, it's waaaaaay too slow to be considered galaxy class. And that's not even mentioning this very same "cutting edge technology" was completely and utterly outmatched by a basic Borg cube
The Borg knew of the Federation at the time of the J-25 incident, because of the message sent by the Borg 'survivors' of the (movie) "First Contact" incident(in a Star Trek:Enterprise episode)
don't forget the Borg had already skirted federation and Romulan space once before. In the episode where they find the 3 humans in stasis and then have to manage an incident with the Romulans along the neutral zone they make reference to vanished colonies. "Once we saw the level of devastation we knew it couldn't have been you."- Romulan commander. in the episode where they meet the Borg this is referenced. Season 1 episode 26 "The Neutral Zone" - Season 2 episode 16 "Q Who" The Federation was not aware of what was eventually going to land on their doorstep.
@@minionsoldier Thank god someone else remembers, I had replied to like 5 people already point out the same thing, I could put it down to many later viewers skipped season 1 (I can understand why) but they still reference it on the first borg ep, at one point they note that the readings from the cube are similar to the strange readings that were found at the lost colonies near the neutral zone. For this reason many people have the first bad impression of Q when in reality as much of a troll that he is, he was trying to be nice (in his way).
I really have a hard time wrapping my head around "killing" an immortal being that can time travel at will and manipulate matter with nothing but thought alone without removing them from the timeline altogether before they had access to this power.
"WIthout Q, the Borg would have assimilated the Federation." Yes, and without Q the Federation would never have been introduced to the Borg in the first place.
Its not truth! . 7 of 9 parents where assimilated before Q sent Borg cube to the Enterprise. The consequence is that the Borg have already known about us and it was only a matter of time when they assimilate us through Transwarphub. On the contrary. Q really save with this act humanity, because humans at time do not know about Borgs /Ship RAVEN was destroyed in Deltaquadrant and crew assimilated/.and they could prepare for them.
@@pumelo1 I'd forgotten that episode. But yes, I remember it now. It never occurred to me before, but now that you mention it I realize it doesn't fit into Star Trek continuity very well. But whatever, it was a good episode.
@@liamloxley1222 well that just opens up a whole new question. Why didn't the Federation know anything about the Borg before Picard was forced to confront them?
If only Riker could have told the Federation that everyone on Voyager was okay things would have been a lot easier. Not very helpful there Q. Shame on you.
I love how Riker gets whisked away to the other side of the galaxy and is still immediately ready and eager to give a Powerpoint presentation about Colonel Thaddeus "Old Ironboots" Riker.
After dealing with Q for 7 years - may as well play along and see where it goes because you can't do much else.
I often wondered and wished Riker could of brought information about Voyager back home after this.
To the Q time and space is a meaningless concept. They exist outside of time so such things to them are trivial. Time and space is real but imagine being able to simply take something from one place and put it in the other place light years away.
Neutrinos can be in two places at once. They pass through solid matter even though our laws say that's impossible. They seem completely autonomous but still somehow able to communicate wherever they are between each other.
@@kairon156 I would guess he plucked them out of time and put them back at the exact same moment that he snagged them, with no memory of what occured. But it'd be a nice gesture if he let Riker have his memories.
I met the REAL Q at a Star Trek convention in 1991, their was a cute high school girl in the autograph line in front of me, she was so shy meeting him that she stumbled over her words and eventually dropped the picture that he had just autographed for her. I've bent down and picked it up, she smiled and said thank you, I smiled back, and proceeded to get John De Lancie's autograph. He said to me-"The two of you just had a moment."- and I went, oh we did didn't we, I then walked over to her and introduced myself. We have been married for 25 years and have seven children. But the youngest one looks like Q. Coincidence, I think not.
SEVEN KIDS?
@@pumelo1 My dad had 5 kids between three marrages (plus a 6th from one of his wife's previous marrages).
@@jdb2002 then this planet should not be overpopulated
John De Lancie is Q-pid
@@stringtheoryguitars4952 Well done sir
I love how Q talks about Issac Newton a suspect in several prostitute murder and Newton's expression seem like 'sounds about right'.
Or a "At least they didn't actually find out!"
Funny given that Newton was famously an agelastic misanthrope with very few friends and died a virgin.
Probably a jack the ripper reference?
@@gtpliquid1290 Newton was gay. Like many historical figures, his relationships with men were tastefully described as "Friendship/Conpanionship." It was understood by society but not talked about. Some of his private correspondence survived and revealed his intimacies with a Swiss mathematician named Fatio.
@@streetguru9350 Probably not. Newton died in 1727, but Jack the Ripper's case was in the 1880s-1890s.
Personally, I love the expression that comes over Riker's face when he sees the photograph. His pride in his family history is unmistakable.
@Daniel Appleton big deal. We are, after all, talking about two generations separated by several hundred years. I can accept that they bear little or no resemblance to each other. What I CAN'T accept, however, is that the Q in the photo does not look like the Q sitting trial on Voyager.
LOL Riker is supposed to be Canadian though.
Actually, he's from Alaska.
FWIW at least once in TNG he specifically makes the point that he is not Canadian.
Daniel Appleton you watch way too much tv if you honestly believe ancestors look that much alike, let alone over that many generations. I don’t even look like my grand father. Hell, I don’t even look like my dad.
"That's Ironboots Riker."
"And the soldier beside him?"
"I'll be damned! It's a terrible Photoshop of that guy sitting over there!"
I thought the same thing. 😆
To be fair, I have many "photos" from that time period. Many personal photos were hand painted (not even airbrushed) to cover damage to the image. I have old images of relatives from that time period that look like that. It was a bad restoration job from the actual time period. My own Great Great grandparents have an image that looks kinda messed up just like this. Everyone looked kinda distorted (ever see Billy the Kid's original photo? it's super weird looking) :D
Recall that Riker has seen the photo repeatedly during his life.
Take into account that when this episode was made, crayons were cutting edge technology.
@@Craneman4100w i mean seriously?
I met Q around 1991 at a convention. Got to talk to him and shake his hand. He is almost like his character in real life. A very funny guy to boot. Was a pleasure to meet him.
Which Q? John Delancy? Or the other one?
Cthulhoop or his wife. Or his son. Daehawk, Good god man, be precise!
Down to Earth? Very Funny?
He was going to be at a convention near me this summer, along with Jonathan Frakes. Well, that shit went up like a red shirt.
he is really arrogant in real life too. Patrick Stewart was asked if the two get along and he avoided answering it twice. In other shows he's been on, including charmed and stargate, the commentary is hilarious because whoever is talking about him say the guy is full of himself
Fun Fact: it was originally supposed to be Levar Burton instead of Johnathan Frakes. But he was unavailable during filming. So they went with Frakes... still worked out well.
This was better because Q annoyed Riker more.
@@TheMrPeteChannel Still love that one story where Geordi got in Qs face in anger so Q sent Geordy to Trois shower while she was taking one. He slipped, reached out for something to stop his fall and caught a hold of a certain body part of hers.
While Troi was royally pissed off at Q and smacked him, Geordi took it in good humor and Q appreciated that and said Geordi was one of the few humans he liked.
At the time you couldn't throw a rock on the Paramount lot and not hit Frakes sitting in a director's chair
I like how Newton doesn't even look phased by the fact that he would have died in the debtor's prison, nor that he's a murder suspect. That dude did things.....
Nah, more of a referrence to how badly justice was done in those days. There was no forensics. Hell, half the cops were following blind faith, and knowing there's some guy who's got tons of crazy stupid ideas, they'd be tempted to jail him out of some diluted justice.
True, Human. It wasn't until Robert Peel and his Bobbies that modern policing started to form.
Still today, almost 200 years later the UK is still following his principles with policing.
Or he completely accepted Q's story about all this being just an elaborate dream and just rolled with it.
Okay, shitbird. Keep going, tough guy.
What, did I insult your waifu Newton? Or is there a comment I'm not seeing?
“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.” XD
2 things wrong with your comment. 1 you wasted our time and yours typing out exactly what we just heard in the video. 2 you typed XD which stands for nothing. Means nothing. Does nothing and is just plain stupid.
More fun before the beard
@@mikemorgan2211 XD is an emoticon expressing joy or more specifically laughter. It is well recognized in online circles and has existed in that form for decades. Used in this context it conveys the writer's appreciation for the humour in that line. Unless you only began using the internet a few weeks ago, you've probably encountered the expression in that form at least once, meaning you likely are just irritated by it. Your feigned ignorance of it's does not excuse your malicious rudeness. Just because you personally may have decided that it means nothing doesn't affect the fact many, many others recognize it's meaning.
Ok yes humans need Q you prove your point, happy now Q?
@@mikemorgan2211 If you're going to troll at least do it right. All you ended up doing was embarrassing yourself.
John de Lancie, always a great performance as Q.
Honestly he pulls out top quality on anything hes on.
And always towards the stoners th-cam.com/video/ZNgYaWP9XIE/w-d-xo.html
I dont like so much in voyayer the script wasnt so good. In tng and ds9 was awesome. But he is a great actor anyway.
I always thought Q should have allowed Riker to remember this. It wouldn't alter the timeline-Riker was contemporary. All it would have done is let Starfleet know Voyager was still intact.
then the EMH Mk.II episode wouldn't have happened
Which would alter the timeline.
Since Starfleet wasn't supposed to know Voyager was still intact INTEL the Dr transmit himself to a prototype star ship through tge HAROGIN communications stay sone time later.
Punch Fukker he’s saying it wouldn’t have altered the timeline in universe, not that it wouldn’t have affected the course of the show.
Q exists in pretty much all of the timeline. He's shown ability to travel through time in many instances, including this episode. So allowing Riker to remember does change the timeline for him as he knows it....not that changing the timeline has bothered him in the past.
Wouldn't Q just do a memory wipe?
One of the most charming aspects of this scene is that it shows the Q's care and interest in humanity centuries before becoming known to them.
Got to enjoy how Riker rolled his eyes when the well known Q mention the teasing and torment he enjoyed putting Riker through and did make a solid point of rescuing Picard from the Borg
Of COurse, it WAS Q who put The ENterprise in contact with the Borg LONG before they should have, which caused the Borg to come afer the federation. SO the one Q is fine, but Joh DeLancie always played a Q that was like a Pilitician's incorridgable kid that knew he had Intergalactic immunity
Fun fact: Will Riker says that Colonel Riker was in command of the 102nd New York Infantry. In Lower Decks, Riker has a cap from that regiment in his ready room on the USS Titan
Lower decks will never be canon
Kuntzman trek
@@-M0LE utter bs lower decks is cannon
@@MDE_never_dies why!?!
@@MDE_never_dies it is great show
@@-M0LE Gene Roddenberry was a thief and alleged rapist. Rick Berman is documented as a sexist misogynistic pig who actively tried to destroy the careers of anyone he couldn't control.
Show me examples of Kurtsman being anywhere near that level of unbridled shittiness. Otherwise fuck off with your elitist gatekeeping retardedness.
By the way Maury Ginsberg is the actor’s real name. The writers didn’t change the name because they liked it.
Far out!
@@kg4boj mmyes..
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Maury: Far out!
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Q: *Facinated eyebrow* ...Yes...
He speaks to the Q soul, maaan
@@supersonictumbleweed Q doesnt vibe th-cam.com/video/ZNgYaWP9XIE/w-d-xo.html
@@FirestormDDash /)
those little side comments give Q humor.
The irony here is that Johnathan Frakes co-starred in the 1980s Civil War miniseries "North & South", which included Patrick Swayze, Jimmy Stewart and Jean Simmons (who played Admiral Sati in TNG's "The Drumhead".
Nobody puts Riker in a corner lol
That's coincidence, not irony.
Without Riker the Borg would have assimilated the Federation, a fact we saw first hand in the episode where Worf had to deal with alternate timelines, including one where the Borg was everywhere.
No, not the Borg. Rikers Beard was everywhere!
@@CathrineMacNiel
it's like a chia pet
@@andrewblanchard2398 it just keeps growing?
0:11 Stephen Hawking: Not the apple story again!
Q should have been in one of TNG movies. Fantastic self centered omnipotent god-like figure.
That would be cool but I think it would "break" the movie. It would be too easy to turn him into a Deus Ex Machina.
The way I heard it, they really wanted to make a movie with Q; but DeLancie wouldn't sign on to a movie deal with Paramount.
I just hope he appears in Picard.
Lee Mawdsley I believe he was hinted at in the first chapter... Data holding all those Q.ueens in Picard's Dream.
@@MRx36000 I bet they end the season with SUDDENLY, Q!
It never occurred to me til now that Tuvok's logic was faulty in arguing that Q was imprisoned during Riker's lifetime, since the Q Continuum are not bound by the constraints of linear time.
I got that fromwhen I first saw this, esp. given they went back to the Big Bang before all this. But the writers also forgot, so don't feel too bad. They had this guy save one of rikers Ancestors instead. Thouh I do find it odd, given they had Issac Newtonand the Wodstock guy there... How eactly did the writers forget about Time Travel?
Perhaps, the way Q continuum handles this, is to imprison him with no chance of visiting those 300 years, as if he will always ends up in that rock, if he visits that specific year. =P
@@hajkie - Except he's already Time Traveled so...
@@hajkie ~ Nah, that wouldn't work, because if they decided to end his imprisonment, then if he visited any of those years he'd be unjustly imprisoned.
No, but they also don't screw with the timeline.
"Without Q, The BORG Would have assimilated the Federation". God that gets me everytime. XD
He introduced the federation, through the enterprise, to the borg earlier than without his intervention. Thus causing the federation to start work on addressing their capabilities.
@@Torsin2000 They were on their way to the Alpha Quadrant anyway after the events of First Contact and the season 2 Enterprise episode, "Regeneration".
@@TheCoolCucumber I think the Borg were on their way to that general area and would have met some Federation ship in a few decades. Then after assimilatinf the ship they gain intel on the federation and start invading and assimilating. The Federatioon fights back but isn't powerfull enough to stop them and the Borg win. This happens because in the time diference between Q interference Borg 1st contact and the natural later Borg 1st contact that would have taken place with out Q's meddeling the Borg probably assimilate many other civilisations and their tech and becoe more powerfull. A more powefull Boeg is too much for the Federation to handle. And since the Q like humanity for some reason (a pet project, thay may see their past selves in humanity, or they can be evolved humans from a distant future that are beyond the limits of time) the Q decided to speed things up a bit so humanity and the Federation have a more even chance.
I read that as him (partially) crediting the *other* Q. After all, William T. Riker *did* save Earth and the Federation while Jean-Luc Picard was...indisposed.
Don't forget y'all, before Q, there were TNG episodes, way earlier in the season, about cities in the neutral being torn from the ground, as if, "some great force pulled them up".
In otherwords, the Borg, at least a cube, was within the vicinity of Federation space, via the Neutral Zone for sometime.
"Far out"
"Yes"
I hardly think that Newton would have been forgotten if "the apple hadn't fallen on his head". There was also his work in optics and in calculus, among other things. He was productive for his whole life.
True, but then what simple scientific discovery do people associate the most with "Newton"?
@jon pork No one doubts the importance about calculus, but I highly doubt kids learning about famous scientists are gonna immediately associate Newton with calculus.
The apple was merely an anecdote to explain gravity to the public. One hardly needs to be struck by a falling apple to ponder why things go down rather than up. or anywhere. Not I, but Newton was well aware of the phenomenon. The man was a genius, after all.
@jon pork Indeed Mr. Pork..... Indeed.
Dude also ran the Mint for 30 years
So Newtonian physics and Woodstock are basically on the same level of importance?
Considering how many people went to the thing someone had to have been profoundly effected by it enough to change history in some way. Quite a few people were probably conceived their if nothing else.
in our time line ...yes
Yeah boomer logic is right. A spotlight operator at Woodstock is about as important as Issac Newton laying the foundation for all of modern physics. Yep.
@Daniel Appleton I would say that nothing of any importance or benefit came out of Woodstock.
@Daniel Appleton To be fair, the person who gave Musk the Heimlich is more likely to devise a way to improve life than Musk himself.
Just rewatching ST Voyager, saw this last night. Q is hillarious
One of the best and thought provoking trek episodes. I miss Trek when it was still Trek.
I like how all of Q's action's in the past essentially amount to him "fluffing his retirement," for the future
"The Guy in The Jeep!"
Something that always made me go "hmmm" in Star Trek was when they talked about the "past."
I thought most historical records were wiped out during the eugenics wars and whatnot.
Except when they're not. Because Plot, Because Drama...
No most records were not destroyed at least not of stuff that happened before the wars.
only the records about
GENETIC ENGINEERING
&
the KHAN PEOPLE
were erased to prevent that
from being remade
PICARD season 2
rewrote that so
KHAN
and 1000 other
EASTER EGGS
could be thrown in
A bitter sweet moment of coming into contact with a prominent figure in star fleet, got to be said, I would of found the loss of the opportunity to send a message back with Will, to be very difficult
My favorite Voyager episode...though I only saw about 80% of them or so.
Notice that Q. Is a Captain. He DIDN'T MAKE HIMSELF AN ADMIRAL!!!!
What a humble guy...
It's because Q knows that being a Captain is the best there is. As a wise man once said: Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do *anything* that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
Q saved my ass from accidentally putting diesel in my unleaded gas engine! (I had driven a diesel up to that point)
Thank you Q!
Without you, I would have never made it to that girl’s house on that first date and my four kids would have been that other guy’s children!
This is a wonderful clip, that I have never seen before. Thank you.
Your welcome.
They put Maury Ginsberg on the same level as Isaac Newton. Christ.
Woodstock was very influential... That eventually evolved into the *Woke* culture.
@@stryfer3364 That just means Q did humanity a disservice.
Who is Maury Ginsberg? actual question
@@MichaelRobertHart Exactly
@@WalrusWinking 😂
Star Trek till infinity & beyond!
I really don't think Riker forgot about his encounters with Q.
He didn't forget the Q we all know and love (?). When he said he had "never seen this man before" he was referring to the smiling guy sitting in the chair who was also a member of the continuum and therefore also Q. Confusing, I know, but ALL members of the continuum are known as Q.
@@tomjustis7237 Oh, so Riker had never forgotten the Q, as in the Q who put them on trial and then had them encounter the Borg?
Yeah but that was not THAT Q but Q
@@Tbonyandsteak There's a question that's always been bugging and confusing me: Why are Q entities always calling their names Q when they could instead use a new name like Kim, Alice, Tom, Ben, Bobby, Al Capone, Blackbeard, Dalek Sec, Dalek Thay, Dalek Jast, Dalek Caan, Mo, Rachel, James, etc? They should give themselves actual different names instead of just one name because otherwise people are gonna be so confused that they can't tell them apart or even call them by their actual name. Amanda Rodgers is the only Q (actually she's half Human/half Q) who has a actual name. She doesn't even call her name Q. If I was turned into a Q entity I prefer to keep my original name James Mark Martin Olberding.
@@jamieolberding7731 I bet it is something alchemist terms.
When the male and female is united.
Q is a symbol for female.
A symbol of unification that all is one, hence all share the same name.
Coooough!!! Borgs.......
It's impressive that William Riker recognized Thaddeus Riker. How many people know their ancestors from 500 years ago?
To be fair, people in the 24th century have a lot of time for hobbies, likely including geneology.
From what bits I remember during TNG, Riker was pretty big on history.
The crew of the 1701-D seem to spend a lot of time learning about ancient earth history.
@@leonkernan So did Kirk's Enterprise; by which I mean they kept finding planets where people accidentally left their books lying around.
if you have 500 year old Photo of him youl would ^^
I love how Q refers to Scarsdale just _so_ casually. Not “Scarsdale, NY”, just. Scarsdale. Love that.
One of the best episodes ever
Great to see Riker on Voyager, but a shame he never said goodbye or good luck to Janeway before he was whisked back to his proper place in time. I'd like to know if Janeway informed Riker of this meeting ever taking place after Voyager had safely returned home.
He went to Earth to save Riker's ancestor, but didn't stand like 20 feet out of shot because he didn't have the foresight to realize the photo would be used against him by Q.
The Q are famously narcissistic, though. I 100% believe that blond Q would have done that, totally uncaring of the repercussions to the timeline, just like familiar Q is the trickster constantly messing with Starfleet members because he finds their reactions to his awesome power funny.
@@BenjiQ575 It's kinda like how Sisko and the Defiant crew went into the past unintentionally, but only to save Kirk. In the end, he took this opportune time to praise Kirk as a disguised ensign what an honor it was to serve under his command, even if it was just a temp post.
Proof Riker got to bone someone in every quadrant of the universe.
Q Episodes and Borg Episodes were the best in Star Trek.
If I was a Q I imagine I would do a lot of those things as well. Just travel around the Galaxy helping people in need.
But if you were a Q, immortal and stuff, it seems just as likely that you'd have the same attitude towards humans as the Q did.
I watched Darth Vader (David Prowse) introduce himself to Q (John Delancy) at a convention after the autograph line finished.
I watched this episode like twenty times.
Who's Maury Ginsburg?
2:58 Far out
Yes.
John de Lancie can even make _Voyager_ dialogue sound interesting. Amazing.
yes
Thank Q
yousa right! JJ 'Brams maka Trek bad poodoo!
Thank you for posting clips back from when it was good.
There was a TNG episode that showed Data playing poker on the holodeck with Newton and Stephen Hawking. I think the fourth was a fictional genius from the future.
No, the 4th was Einstein
no with einstein
you meet us with borg ... thank you
Such a good episode
A note to everyone, Q is like our higher self, directing everything we do. There is no free will, just do and do not.
So you mean they the reason I am scratching my balls and watching porn all day long?
@@dreamyrhodes darn u Q!
False, Q cannot direct our agency. They cause situations, but we have choice how to react to those situations.
@@sameaston9587 That's why I followed my comment with do and do not.
@@MoSteel2 thank you Yoda. I think we have different ideas for free will. To me, free will is the doing or not doing. What's free will to you?
Falls apart just a touch when you know that the apple falling on Newton thing is almost certainly fantasy
Might have been Quinn caught the apple and said "i wonder why it fell" and that part of the story was lost over time.
Fun fact: The actor who played Maury Ginsberg really IS named Maury Ginsberg!
Glad i missed this one.
They may be all called Q, but there is only one *Q!*
April 5, 2063 Can you please upload these two requested scenes from one of my favorites "Star Trek: Enterprise" Season 2 Episode 20 "Horizon?"
1. "That's no turbulence" Alien Pirates Attack and Attached Subspace Tracking Device on ECS Horizon scene.
2. ECS Horizon fights back against the Alien Pirates.
I will work on these clips this weekend.
"far out!"
"...yes"
LOVED this episode. Gerrit Graham was such a great choice for Q
Oh no, Calculus would have just been from Leibniz then, and we'd only have his notation style. The horror.
Oh, the humanities...
newton contributed other things besides calculus...
Without the main Q the borg wouldn’t have KNOWN about the federation yet in the first place
rhaderider They knew watch The Neutral Zone
Not quite true, if you go back and rewatch The Next Gen episodes in order, you see that the Borg actually started assimilating Federation colonies before the Federation ever found out who they were. It's true the ship the Enterprise meets is in the Delta Quadrant, but that doesn't mean there couldn't have been ones closer too.
@@jonmartin444 ~ In fact they did quite an excellent job maintaining the continuity of Human/Borg interactions over TNG, Voyager, and even Enterprise, as well as First Contact. People argue that Enterprise broke continuity when they had the Borg episode, but that's not true.
If humanity's and the Borg's first ever encounter had been in TNG, then how did Seven of Nine's parents know the Borg existed, and travel out to try and find them when Seven was a child? (And _that_ doorway was opened when 'First Contact' brought time travel to Earth into the mix.)
And like you pointed out, the Borg were obviously already aware of humans and romulans, since they were starting with outposts along the neutral zone. So the timeline all fits, even if sometimes details are missing in the earlier stuff, since they didn't have all the details fleshed out.
The Borg were already there. Season one's final episode, "The Neutral Zone." Romulan and Federation outposts were both attacked. Borg. The writer of the episode initially planned a multi-part episode arc to introduce the Borg, but the 1988 writers strike put a fork in that plan leaving a very poorly written and half-finished episode. In "Q Who?", when the Enterprise first meets the Borg, Data describes the planet's destruction as "identical to what happened to the outposts along the Neutral Zone". All that being said, Q, in a callous way, granted the Federation a sneak peek which allowed them to prepare better defenses for later confrontations. Q is correct here.
The whole thing was explained in the Picard series. The Borg knew from the causality loop as they have temporal awareness knowing humans would end up destroying them so that was the motivation.
Things of equal importance to humanity, according to Q:
- The foundations of physics and calculus
- Not being destroyed/assimilated by the Borg
- Woodstock
Woodstock created culture which lead to creation of federation.
Without it
We would have terran empire
I was watching this episode like three days ago
"Without Q the Borg would have assimilated the Federation"
Well, maybe. But if it wasn't for Q flinging the Enterprise in the path of that first cube in Q Who?, Riker wouldn't have had to step up in the wake of Wolf 359.
It was a wake up call. And gave us time to put up counters to it.
@@TheCaptainSplatter What defenses though? In Best of Both Worlds they clearly establish that the Federation still has no means to defend against the Borg. All they had was a general idea of the coming threat.
Valuable, to be sure... but we'll never know how the Federation would have fared against the Borg without it.
Q saw that the Borg was coming..and in earlier seasons Q had said that humanity was evolving and he wanted to see that evolution..that's why he threw the Enterprise in front of the Borg cube to help prepare for them
@@Norvo82 Rotating shield polarities and rotating phase emitters gave the federation a chance to defend it's self especially in the battle of sector 001.
In a hundred years in the future, the Federation would have reached the Delta quadrant and encountered the Borg. By introducing the Federation to the Borg early, Starfleet was able to design warships that would be needed to fight against The Founders, who would have crippled the Federation and allowed them to be assimilated by the Borg with ease.
1:53 the subtle check out of Riker by janeway lol
2:00 the not subtle check out of Riker by janeway lol
God I love Gerrit Graham.
john de lancie's Q is arguing here that the other Q was important to humans, including ensuring RIker was born and RIker was greatly responsible for stopping the Borg. But I just realized my first statement was an error, as our Q's point here is spot on.
In an epoisode in which the Voyager is taken back to the Big Bang, and made into a Christmas Tree Ornament from hallmark, and in the very scene in which Issac Newton and a guy from Woodstock stood there, the objection is the Q was imnprisoned before Riker's Lifetime... er, what?
Also, why not brign Rikers Ancestor? Why Riker?
This should have been something this Q did for Riker himself.
It's weird how humans enforce the prime directive as much as they can but the Godlike species violate it for fun, even go back in time to satisfy their ego.
Q is a renegade though
pls remember, if a Q's actions has too many serious unintended consequences, that Q can go back and correct it with a snap of their fingers. Humans cannot
i guess you missed STD. they dont even try.
This was just on TV an hour ago
Newton is still pissed about that poker game
Is it the same actor who played Newton in Datas Poker game?
No. That one was the guy who played the head of the conspiracy in X-Files, at least in the movie.
It is not. In Data's poker game the British actor who portrayed Sir Isaac Newton was John Reginald Neville. In this Voyager episode the British actor was Peter Dennis (who also played Admiral Hendricks in the Voyager episode Friendship 1 of the 7th Season/ Ep 21)
It's better that it's not the same actor. Data's holodeck simulation can only approximate the character of a man who died in 1727. Q has the power to summon the real Issac Newton from across space and time.
It's a half 3 in the morning here in Ireland... and youtube recommends this?
I don't know how Google's algorithm works, but it tends to hit the mark more than it doesn't... Cause here we are, watching this video, hehe.
Same
I just finished watching some reviews of Watchmen on HBO, go figure.
LOL, yup, Plymouth England here ... and i'm watching at 3.43am ... what a life!
@@martynstembridge7714 I got a bit paranoid that somehow Google/TH-cam knows that I (*cough*) "downloaded" the original series on Blu-ray a few days ago...
(Just out of nosiness, you understand)
Didnt the episode in Enterprise the Borg where found in the artic that in the end sent a message to the Delta Quadrant concerning earth?
Non-canon
Also it was going to take like 200 years to get there anyway placing the signal's arrival time a bit before the time of TNG's starting.
I still have not seen all of Voyager. Need to buy all the DVD's.
I recommend subscribing to Netflix, they have all the seasons of Star Trek Voyager, DS9, TNG and the original.
But where’s Gowron??!?
Doesn't Voyager come after DS9 which comes after TNG? How is Riker not a Captain by now??
its because Riker doesnt become captain until voyager comes back, Which he takes command of the USS Titan, besides, he likes being a first officer
Also, Q pulls these people out of time, so we cant definitively know when in the TNG timeline this Riker was from
In universe, Voyager was on her way home during the events of DS9. They were taken to the Delta quadrant in 2371, two years before the battle of Sector 001 and four years after Wolf 359. The series runs from 2371-2377. DS9 was set from 2369-2375. So they missed the Dominion war.
But yes, DS9 premiered before Voyager. DS9 ran 1993-1999 and Voyager ran 1995-2001.
The timeline is a bit confusing. Took me 20 years to figure out how Worf was on DS9 AND the Enterprise.
@@aaronboothproduction we know it's not the riker from season 1 XD
didn't Jonathan Frakes direct this episode (among afew others on voyager)?
Great way to cameo Riker into the story! :)
Guy: far out!
Q: yes.
I know this man too! Police academy... Six I assume?
Haha I thought the exact same thing. I'm pretty sure it was the first thing I ever saw him in.
This was the last episode of voyager I saw before I quit the show. When Q gives her the opportunity to send her home with no strings attached as a thank you and she refuses.
If I were on the bridge I would have said she doesn't speak for everyone and taken him up on the offer.
Q doesn't make offers with 'no strings attached'.
@@sargon0141 True, but he still did allow Data to laugh, in part due to how Data treated him decently and did try to save his life.
@@TheCoolCucumber living for a couple decades and losing 7 of 9 is enough of a reason for a flip flop
Q is truly a concept that can never be achieved again in storytelling 👏 he's a god but he's always got the time to bully Riker and teach Picard a valuable lesson 😂
I love how Q congratulates himself for ensuring the Borg hadnt assimilated the Federation....
Isaac Newton is Jack the Riper?!
Silke Held Wrong time period
Q says he helped the Federation fight the Borg. But he helped the Borg find the Federation, which resulted in thousands of lives lost, thanks to him.
Nope, you misunderstood Q's plan. The Borg were already expanding towards federation space. It was just a matter of time before first contact, which would've been well within federation space. Q made the federation aware they should not act all high and mighty. He gave them a good kick in the rear, putting us arrogant humans in our place and giving us a lot more time to prepare beforehand.
Just observe how cocky they are with their fancy new "Galaxy class" starship initially. Heck even the name sounds arrogant, it's waaaaaay too slow to be considered galaxy class. And that's not even mentioning this very same "cutting edge technology" was completely and utterly outmatched by a basic Borg cube
The Borg knew of the Federation at the time of the J-25 incident, because of the message sent by the Borg 'survivors' of the (movie) "First Contact" incident(in a Star Trek:Enterprise episode)
@@ronaldfinkelstein6335 And also (this may be canon) in Enterprise, where a Borg drone sends a message "somewhere deep in the Delta quadrant".
don't forget the Borg had already skirted federation and Romulan space once before. In the episode where they find the 3 humans in stasis and then have to manage an incident with the Romulans along the neutral zone they make reference to vanished colonies. "Once we saw the level of devastation we knew it couldn't have been you."- Romulan commander. in the episode where they meet the Borg this is referenced. Season 1 episode 26 "The Neutral Zone" - Season 2 episode 16 "Q Who"
The Federation was not aware of what was eventually going to land on their doorstep.
@@minionsoldier Thank god someone else remembers, I had replied to like 5 people already point out the same thing, I could put it down to many later viewers skipped season 1 (I can understand why) but they still reference it on the first borg ep, at one point they note that the readings from the cube are similar to the strange readings that were found at the lost colonies near the neutral zone. For this reason many people have the first bad impression of Q when in reality as much of a troll that he is, he was trying to be nice (in his way).
geez i gotta go watch voyager
"The guy... in the Jeep..." 😆
I really have a hard time wrapping my head around "killing" an immortal being that can time travel at will and manipulate matter with nothing but thought alone without removing them from the timeline altogether before they had access to this power.
The Q's personal timeline ending wouldn't affect any of its past personal timeline activity.
Q is biased. Why didn't he help the Borg?
K Money Borg are boring and predictable without enough emotions to be interesting to a Q.
K Money As Q himself has stated, Picard is the closest thing to a friend he’s ever had.
He likes humans. That's why he warned us about the Borg.
@Alysandir So the Borg are .... you mean like democrats?
Bob Hope said it first... th-cam.com/video/4a6YdNmK77k/w-d-xo.html
@Alex Jay the Borg knew of humans with Captain Archer
"Far Out! ..Yes."
In Star Trek Picard we learn Riker had a son named Thad. This where it comes from Colonel Thaddeus Riker.
"WIthout Q, the Borg would have assimilated the Federation." Yes, and without Q the Federation would never have been introduced to the Borg in the first place.
Its not truth! . 7 of 9 parents where assimilated before Q sent Borg cube to the Enterprise. The consequence is that the Borg have already known about us and it was only a matter of time when they assimilate us through Transwarphub.
On the contrary. Q really save with this act humanity, because humans at time do not know about Borgs /Ship RAVEN
was destroyed in Deltaquadrant and crew assimilated/.and they could prepare for them.
@@pumelo1 I'd forgotten that episode. But yes, I remember it now. It never occurred to me before, but now that you mention it I realize it doesn't fit into Star Trek continuity very well. But whatever, it was a good episode.
Because Species 8472 would have got the Borg first, then moved on to the rest of the galaxy.
@@liamloxley1222 well that just opens up a whole new question. Why didn't the Federation know anything about the Borg before Picard was forced to confront them?
Oh no. The Borg were heading towards the alpha quadrant. It was only a matter of time before they would have assimilated the Federation.
If only Riker could have told the Federation that everyone on Voyager was okay things would have been a lot easier. Not very helpful there Q. Shame on you.
Far out!
Yes
He never could dig hippies in any dimension th-cam.com/video/ZNgYaWP9XIE/w-d-xo.html
Q & Riker...hilarious