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So are we gonna find out the enterprise creating humanity was just Q trolling Pike? Cause for me that took time travel hijinks way too far.
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The 4th (and best) Doctor in Doctor Who discovered that an alien crashed a Ford-Pinto-tier spaceship on primordial Earth and accidentally blew the ship up while trying to crank start it, and in addition to irradiating some amino acid goo and creating life,
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the explosion accidentally sent the alien into the future multiple times, creating timeline copies of him. These copies could telepathically communicate with each other across time, collaborating across history to find a way to time travel back and reverse the explosion so he could be whole again and go home. Naturally he/they decided the best way to do this was to identify what fine art would be most valuable in the future and get the original artist in the past to make secret contemporary copies, thereby making the ultimate undetectable "counterfeits", which could be sold on the black market in the 1970s, so that the time-fractured alien could eventually buy the technology he needs when humans get around to inventing it with his obviously inept secret guidance even though he could just guide us to give it to him for free to that end.
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I mean, its part of the lore that the Q have hit an evolutionary dead end, and their curiosity regarding humans is the possibility that in millenia they will surpass the Q.
13 Comments
sundray@lemmus.org · 15 pts · 27d
Q, or “Screenwriter’s Helper” as he’s also known.
hash@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 27d
::: spoiler Strange New Worlds S4E1 Spoiler So are we gonna find out the enterprise creating humanity was just Q trolling Pike? Cause for me that took time travel hijinks way too far. :::
pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 24d
The 4th (and best) Doctor in Doctor Who discovered that an alien crashed a Ford-Pinto-tier spaceship on primordial Earth and accidentally blew the ship up while trying to crank start it, and in addition to irradiating some amino acid goo and creating life,
::: spoiler Spoiler the explosion accidentally sent the alien into the future multiple times, creating timeline copies of him. These copies could telepathically communicate with each other across time, collaborating across history to find a way to time travel back and reverse the explosion so he could be whole again and go home. Naturally he/they decided the best way to do this was to identify what fine art would be most valuable in the future and get the original artist in the past to make secret contemporary copies, thereby making the ultimate undetectable "counterfeits", which could be sold on the black market in the 1970s, so that the time-fractured alien could eventually buy the technology he needs when humans get around to inventing it with his obviously inept secret guidance even though he could just guide us to give it to him for free to that end. :::
That Doctor Who episode was less stupid.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 27d
If that's true, then why don't you evolve, Q?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 27d
Doesn't want to? 🤷🏻
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 27d
I mean, its part of the lore that the Q have hit an evolutionary dead end, and their curiosity regarding humans is the possibility that in millenia they will surpass the Q.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 26d
That all changed when Q and Q had baby Q on that Civil War Reenactment episode of Voyager.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 26d
I made it through the first season of Voyager and gave up, so I have no knowledge of this
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
It's worth it. The baby Q is Rhys Darby
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
Power through to season 4. That's when it "grows the beard," so to speak.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
Couldn't they just go look?
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 27d
Q is not the Koala.
autonomous@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d
Don't confuse paramount with Q