Q's reasoning for making Riker a Q
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A recent thought about "Riker Q" and the revelation of the Q's part in the space/time continuum (at least in Timelines)...
Could one of the motivations behind the Q making Riker a Q have been to essentially make replacements, so they could leave safely and basically have someone else take their place?
Could one of the motivations behind the Q making Riker a Q have been to essentially make replacements, so they could leave safely and basically have someone else take their place?
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Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
While I don't disagree with the boredom part, I'm just proposing a hidden motivation that basically only works in the context of Timelines.
This sound like my Philosophy 101 class. Some interesting discussions, but a very biased teacher. Granted that everyone has bias, but a few people (my teacher being a poster child) are too biased to realize they have a bias. I hated that class. I had a political science class with an extremely biased teacher, too, but he knew he was biased and allowed for free sharing of ideas with no recriminations, even when he thought (and said) they were bad. I liked that class.
I digress.
To the question: Does it matter? Picard learned a lesson either way. The real Q could have done that. Or Picard's subconscious could have used Q as a way to rationalize what was going on. Either case shows that the ends nullify the means.
I would say it does matter if the point was learning a lesson. If it did not happen then there was no lesson. He did not learn what his life would have been like if he had played it safer. But if the point was not learning a lesson but being content then whether it was real or not does not matter, Picard was content at the end of the episode.
For the same reason he needs a starship.
While I don't think the question matters, I believe it was a true interaction with Q. (As true as a fictional story can get, anyway.)
The problem is that as a serial, TNG never actually explored long-term effects of what the crew experienced. So I suppose that if the question of Q's involvement really plagued Picard, it could matter. But if it did mess with Picard's mind and did matter, that would be because he allowed it to matter. It does not have to matter.
Because it is an eccentric way to transport oxygen atoms?
Within the confines of the game, I like this idea. It makes a lot of sense why he was put in part 1 of this mega based on what we learned in chapter 10. Either that, or maybe The Continuum is looking for reinforcements?
Actually, I believe the answer is lightning from eyeballs, though something is definitely lost in translation.
"Why does God need a starship?"
A good question. This is not God, but Q playing dress-up. Picard points this out in the episode. Q is not God. God does not need a med kit. God does not need a starship. I suppose it right to point out that God could use a med kit should He desire, but He does not need one.
(In fairness, I don't suppose Q needs one, either. Maybe this all really was a dream. But as Spock points out, Life is not a dream. So perhaps we are back to philosophy.)
I do not disagree.
As a young fan of TNG, I was conflicted with the Q plot. It just didnt fit, but in retrospective, it never concluded.
Part of me feels this was an unfortunate loss of an idea Gene Roddenbery initally had but was lost because it was not passed down to his successors.
Q was an amazing story element, which ended up being glorified comic relief.
He introduced the crew (and us the audience) to the fracking BORG!
As I rewatch TOS, and the otherworldly puzzles Kirk, Spock and McCoy had to solve in episodic form, I wonder what a missed opportunity Q provided in a serial form?
What else could have come from such an imaginative construct?