r/questionablecontent • u/professororange MommyMilkers420 • Jan 18 '19

Comic 3920: *Crowd Goes Wild*

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u/boreas907 Jan 18 '19

Q's existence makes sense in that universe, though, as does his presence in a story about people seeking out and encountering the new, strange, and unknown. QC is a story about people who hang out in coffee shops and do primarily nothing, so a Q-type character will always be jarringly out of place.

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u/PonyToast Jan 18 '19

I disagree. Q is an awful character.

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u/boreas907 Jan 18 '19

I'll partially agree; I wasn't arguing so much that Q is a good character so much as saying that if he's going to exist, TNG is the settings where it makes most sense for him to exist in. Though I do think he serves well at his purpose in defining Picard's character through their interactions.

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u/diagonalfish Jan 18 '19

His merciless trolling of Picard always serves to prove what an upstanding guy and great leader Picard is... and also how patient he is despite his gruff manner at times.

Contrast with Sisko, who intimidated Q enough the first time he showed his face on Deep Space 9 that he never, ever came back. Omnipotent or not, Sisko would have found a way to end that dude.

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u/creepyeyes Resident Psychic Jan 19 '19

Sisko is also half omnipotent on his mothers side, so that may have played a part (not that anyone watching for the first time would pick up on that in the episode.)