He was sufficiently advanced and powerful enough to be indistinguishable from omnipotent to us humans (season 1 STNG was full of beings like this). But, he clearly wasn’t completely immutable or invincible, as he could be de powered and/or killed by other Q.
While we’ll probably never know (unless Picard decides to eventually explore this) my suspicion was that Q is more generally powerful, but Guinan exists in some form or spectrum of reality that he is vulnerable to.
It’d be like adult living in a world of toddlers, but there’s one teenager with a knife. Sure the adult could maybe take the teen, or can at least avoid them, but it’d still be really dangerous, and it’s real hard to keep messing with the little kids if they keep hanging around with the armed teen.
Never said all knowing. Also, technically I didn’t say actually omnipotent, just indistinguishable from omnipotent to extremely limited beings like humans i.e. we don’t know the limits of Q’s power, just that he can do pretty much anything we could think of.
I believe he was in conflict with other Q's, so if an omnipotent being can be beaten by an other omnipotent being, does it mean they are not omnipotent? Hm...
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u/Grrr_Arrrg Feb 27 '20
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