I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so, because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center.
That’s a very shallow assessment (meaning no offense). There are many things that are changing for the better, things that we as a species are learning about our universe and what we mean within it - you just have to widen your time scale to see it.
Yes, we have some reckoning to do, but we will do it, because it’s in our nature to always ask what can be better. Big change takes time. Just don’t stop fighting for a better life
I’m glad there are still people around who truly believe that. Not being sarcastic at all, I truly am. Because I really fear it has gone from me . . .
It’s not even about who was elected, it’s the fact that an overwhelming majority of my country has chosen fear over hope, ignorance and bigotry over tolerance, showmanship over intelligence, building walls over building bridges. No one here wants to think, they just want a bully in charge who will teach the rest of the world some harsh lesson they feel needs teaching . . .
Ultimately you’re exactly right, as history has proven again and again. It just sucks when I thought we were closer to an Age of Enlightenment, not an age of regression and ignorance and fear. But here we are . . .
For anyone being sad about how bad things feel, it is canonical that WW3 happens before warp is invented, so things can keep getting bad before they get better, in fact a reset seems to be the only way, sad to say but it happened to the Japanese, they’ll tell you that they weren’t in the best mind set 80 years ago, WW2 changed their trajectory completely. Maybe that what Star Trek lore is trying to say when WW3 has to happen for humanity to get it together.
Alright, Q, look at the massive response to the natural disasters that have taken place just over the summer here in the US — donations, volunteers, and even "just" well-wishes. There were people who took time out of their regular lives and traveled to these places to help for long periods.
And on a less tangible note, a "TV personality" whom I follow closely was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer a few months ago. As soon as we heard, prayers and good energy started flowing his way en masse. As of a couple of weeks ago, he was cancer free. His doctors still can't explain it.
Miracles really do happen, and generally speaking, most human beings are good, Q. Maybe if you would keep an open mind instead of always coming from a place of judgment, it'd be easier to see these things.
Yeah. I think I've just been lying to myself all this time. This was a wake up call. Maybe "good people" don't actually exist. I know that real love does not, a lesson learned in the past five years. Now this. Maybe we're in hell or purgatory because we deserve it.
I once thought it did. I loved a woman so much, she was the first thing on my mind the moment I woke up every day. And she was the last thing on my mind before I lost consciousness to sleep every night. She told me I was the love of all her lives, that I was everything to her, I was her life. And then... without saying a word, she left, ghosted me, and I never heard from her again. Love seems real, when you have it. But it can disappear without a warning, at any moment, and for no apparent reason. How can it be real if it's so... fickle, unreliable? But that is romantic love, right. The other types of love, love for pets, love for your kids, etc. That seems real, at least.
Good people do exist, the problem is that the only things that matter in life are luck and money. The people with those things are predominantly evil and buy positions of power, so evil runs things and good gets overshadowed.
People are a mix of good and evil. The best leaders pull out the best in us, the worst bring out the worst.
The rise of social media (like other forms of mass communication in the past) has made it really really difficult for positive messages to cut through.
I’m not saying I know how to fix that, but writing off the whole of humanity is not it.
Destroying us would make you no better than we are. If you claim moral superiority to humanity, then you would view it as your duty to help us improve ourselves rather than sit in judgment on us.
If you want to play judge, jury, and executioner, there is nothing we can do to stop you. But all you're doing is asserting that your might makes you right, which is a philosophy that you seem to regard as barbaric and savage.
So let me ask you, Q. Do you think you're better than us? If so, prove it.
As far away from living in the Star Trek universe as possible. Fucking Roddenberry and his coked up fever dream. We have all been lied to. You want to know where extraterrestrial life is? Exceedingly far away.
More likely it exists nearly everywhere in the Universe, given how evenly distributed the building blocks for life likely are, except as each intelligent species approaches industrialization and their space age they inevitably kill themselves off with their own arrogance, hatred, pollution and waste.
That may very well be why we seek out intelligent life, calling and searching but no one answers. They are already extinct by their own hands. And we, in our arrogance and savagery will likely be next to self-extinguish.
Well, I think we were, we just hadn't seen the worst for a while. Bit hard to miss now, though, when it's been on every channel and website constantly.
I'll tell you what, how about instead I agree to be his slave for a year in exchange for him sending me to Vulcan afterwards? Hell, I'd agree to a decade if he'd be willing to send me to Risa.
I'll stick around for content, as long as i can consume good content i'll live, i hoped there was a possibility i could stick around somehow to see the end of the universe, but clearly not with this species it seems, hope is dead.
Okay. . . We are Cruel and savage while at the same time Kind and empathetic. . . it's just sometimes one side wins out. And sometimes when one side wins out the other side steps in
20 years working ground level customer service during Christmas time, proves that good will to your fellow man is biggest load of BS ever dished out. Karen's are not a new concept
UsagiTsukino@reddit
Yesterday was the vote between Star Trek and Warhammer 40K.
Someoneoverthere42@reddit
Why? He's right
badluckfarmer@reddit
I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so, because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center.
XPsychoMunkyX@reddit
That future is looking less and less likely I’m very sad to say . . .
cmpb@reddit
That’s a very shallow assessment (meaning no offense). There are many things that are changing for the better, things that we as a species are learning about our universe and what we mean within it - you just have to widen your time scale to see it.
Yes, we have some reckoning to do, but we will do it, because it’s in our nature to always ask what can be better. Big change takes time. Just don’t stop fighting for a better life
XPsychoMunkyX@reddit
I’m glad there are still people around who truly believe that. Not being sarcastic at all, I truly am. Because I really fear it has gone from me . . .
It’s not even about who was elected, it’s the fact that an overwhelming majority of my country has chosen fear over hope, ignorance and bigotry over tolerance, showmanship over intelligence, building walls over building bridges. No one here wants to think, they just want a bully in charge who will teach the rest of the world some harsh lesson they feel needs teaching . . .
Ultimately you’re exactly right, as history has proven again and again. It just sucks when I thought we were closer to an Age of Enlightenment, not an age of regression and ignorance and fear. But here we are . . .
badluckfarmer@reddit
They said we were in for one more rough century before getting there.
Vic_Valentine511@reddit
For anyone being sad about how bad things feel, it is canonical that WW3 happens before warp is invented, so things can keep getting bad before they get better, in fact a reset seems to be the only way, sad to say but it happened to the Japanese, they’ll tell you that they weren’t in the best mind set 80 years ago, WW2 changed their trajectory completely. Maybe that what Star Trek lore is trying to say when WW3 has to happen for humanity to get it together.
LordTomGM@reddit
Nope. Q was right. Picard was idealistic.
seaofrains1974@reddit
Alright, Q, look at the massive response to the natural disasters that have taken place just over the summer here in the US — donations, volunteers, and even "just" well-wishes. There were people who took time out of their regular lives and traveled to these places to help for long periods.
And on a less tangible note, a "TV personality" whom I follow closely was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer a few months ago. As soon as we heard, prayers and good energy started flowing his way en masse. As of a couple of weeks ago, he was cancer free. His doctors still can't explain it.
Miracles really do happen, and generally speaking, most human beings are good, Q. Maybe if you would keep an open mind instead of always coming from a place of judgment, it'd be easier to see these things.
Normal_Ad7101@reddit
You mean the natural disaster where militia were harassing government agencies and volunteers that were just helping ?
AugustSkies__@reddit
Touche
EmptyBuildings@reddit
Why did Q fuck with humanity but ignore the Borg?
AugustSkies__@reddit
Borg are boring to talk too
Max_Danage@reddit
Don’t antagonize the Borg.
Fine-Funny6956@reddit
They adapt.
Garguyal@reddit
Not today.
EnvironmentalMany344@reddit
I got nothin
Liquid_Magic@reddit
Best use of this meme
Smooth_Expression501@reddit
benglescott@reddit
PushingAWetNoodle@reddit
No no, he’s got a point.
thymecrown@reddit
No, I agree.
grnmtnboy0@reddit
Looking at the world lately, I am more inclined to agree with him
InnerWasteland_111@reddit
Yeah. I think I've just been lying to myself all this time. This was a wake up call. Maybe "good people" don't actually exist. I know that real love does not, a lesson learned in the past five years. Now this. Maybe we're in hell or purgatory because we deserve it.
popcornchicken42@reddit
Dude, come on. "real love doesn't exist" That's a very shallow perspective.
InnerWasteland_111@reddit
I once thought it did. I loved a woman so much, she was the first thing on my mind the moment I woke up every day. And she was the last thing on my mind before I lost consciousness to sleep every night. She told me I was the love of all her lives, that I was everything to her, I was her life. And then... without saying a word, she left, ghosted me, and I never heard from her again. Love seems real, when you have it. But it can disappear without a warning, at any moment, and for no apparent reason. How can it be real if it's so... fickle, unreliable? But that is romantic love, right. The other types of love, love for pets, love for your kids, etc. That seems real, at least.
Comfortable-Jelly833@reddit
So it does exist
KeneticKups@reddit
Good people exist, they are just rare because it goes against human nature
Zauberer-IMDB@reddit
They want us to despair. Apathy is their best weapon.
spaceman_202@reddit
their best weapon is owning the entire media
but yeah apathy is good one too
Zauberer-IMDB@reddit
They use it for that purpose.
InnerWasteland_111@reddit
I am beyond despair or apathy. Heading towards non-existence.
Talnesa@reddit
Feel the same way. Kinda just wish Q would snap his fingers and end everything…
Zauberer-IMDB@reddit
I get it, but after the shock wears off we gotta continue to fight for what's right.
ThorDoubleYoo@reddit
Good people do exist, the problem is that the only things that matter in life are luck and money. The people with those things are predominantly evil and buy positions of power, so evil runs things and good gets overshadowed.
jgjgleason@reddit
People are a mix of good and evil. The best leaders pull out the best in us, the worst bring out the worst.
The rise of social media (like other forms of mass communication in the past) has made it really really difficult for positive messages to cut through.
I’m not saying I know how to fix that, but writing off the whole of humanity is not it.
Ba55of0rte@reddit
Good luck
Procrasturbating@reddit
Gonna take warp drive, a post-scarcity economy, and time to heal before I can do that.
crazunggoy47@reddit
child race, specifically
Stardust_808@reddit
Nah, that legit.
Zombiepixlz-gamr@reddit
Pizza exists
robsox1337@reddit
Still the best damn species to ever live!
dayoldghost@reddit
But it's true.
sunplaysbass@reddit
The trial never ended
ausernameiguess4@reddit
Why, he’s fucking right?
FunArtichoke6167@reddit
Blueberry pop-tarts. mic drops
GargamelLeNoir@reddit
The real answer is "compared to who"'? Q is very cruel by human standards after all.
Spackleberry@reddit
So what if we are?
Destroying us would make you no better than we are. If you claim moral superiority to humanity, then you would view it as your duty to help us improve ourselves rather than sit in judgment on us.
If you want to play judge, jury, and executioner, there is nothing we can do to stop you. But all you're doing is asserting that your might makes you right, which is a philosophy that you seem to regard as barbaric and savage.
So let me ask you, Q. Do you think you're better than us? If so, prove it.
kkkan2020@reddit (OP)
I think after this answer q would leave in a huff
Spackleberry@reddit
Then I win.
BattleOfTwoWolves@reddit
Impossible task
SpurnedSprocket@reddit
We had such potential, but then again all good things must come to an end.
rbollige@reddit
Sounds like Q is looking for a face punch.
MyClevrUsername@reddit
It’s definitely not the day for this.
knightsaber2014@reddit
That's the point.
DDA__000@reddit
Farpoint actually
TangoInTheBuffalo@reddit
As far away from living in the Star Trek universe as possible. Fucking Roddenberry and his coked up fever dream. We have all been lied to. You want to know where extraterrestrial life is? Exceedingly far away.
app4that@reddit
More likely it exists nearly everywhere in the Universe, given how evenly distributed the building blocks for life likely are, except as each intelligent species approaches industrialization and their space age they inevitably kill themselves off with their own arrogance, hatred, pollution and waste.
That may very well be why we seek out intelligent life, calling and searching but no one answers. They are already extinct by their own hands. And we, in our arrogance and savagery will likely be next to self-extinguish.
Present_Ad6723@reddit
This is actually one of the worst periods of time in the Star Trek universe, don’t give up yet, we just won’t live to see it
kdlangequalsgoddess@reddit
Isn't this around the time that the Bell Riots occur?
DoesAnyoneCare2999@reddit
They happened about a month ago in the ST universe.
Lampmonster@reddit
Couple months overdue.
TangoInTheBuffalo@reddit
Seriously getting some WWIII/Eugenics crossover vibes, ngl
Present_Ad6723@reddit
Same here, I’m just glad I live in a blue state
reverend_fish@reddit
BrokinHowl@reddit
Yes, I'm with Q on this now
Sci-4@reddit
He’s right.
secretbudgie@reddit
Check back in 340 years. (Maybe longer with the Bell Riots and Irish Reunification delayed by 3 years)
xisupaz_blackbird@reddit
Yep, surely we'll learn after a 3rd world war, billions dead, and billions more starving.
jerk1970@reddit
More shenanigans from "Q".
The-Figure-13@reddit
The Americans managed to vote and give a mandate to a man who values the innovative spirit and who cares about the plights of the common man.
People over the world are suddenly realising they’ve been shackled down by the very people who have claimed to be looking out for them.
We are in a state of mass awakening, and the new enlightenment is dawning
abgry_krakow87@reddit
Nah, I agree with him.
OscarDivine@reddit
Only Picard could!
Maelorus@reddit
I agree? HFY!
ExistentDavid1138@reddit
I agree with Q and they are uninteresting till they improve to be like Star Trek TNG level the Traveler said.
MusicalDeath9991@reddit
He's outta line... But he's right.
Xerio_the_Herio@reddit
And we confused af...
Space_Man_Spiff_2@reddit
Q is correct...we 'muricans" just proved it again.
Metal_L0rd1@reddit
No he's right
JGrabs@reddit
Nope. Snap us away good sir.
stormhawk427@reddit
You win Q
BillDRG@reddit
ClownshoesMcGuinty@reddit
He's right.
NewLife_21@reddit
Yes, he is. I thought that when I first saw the episode way back when, and we weren't nearly as bad as now.
FreeFromCommonSense@reddit
Well, I think we were, we just hadn't seen the worst for a while. Bit hard to miss now, though, when it's been on every channel and website constantly.
Preeng@reddit
I would simply add, that is not all we are.
Galilleon@reddit
Unfortunately it only takes the majority and those in power to make that decision for the rest of us
RellyOhBoy@reddit
Not I think today, especially not today.
GarminTamzarian@reddit
"Yes. Yes we are."
Darth_Neek@reddit
considering the election results, we're fucked.
seamallorca@reddit
My dude, how exactly do star trek subs ALWAYS nail the episode I watched the previous day?
cutearmy@reddit
I agree. Make it quick with the extension. I haven’t got all day
DinnrWinnr@reddit
What happened to, “cruel, savage, child race”?!
CiTrus007@reddit
Put them on trial!
Canadian__Ninja@reddit
It was hard to deny when it was originally said back just a couple years after the Cold War ended. Not any easier now.
AHappyWarrior@reddit
Yeah, I got nothing.
DragonHeart_97@reddit
I'll tell you what, how about instead I agree to be his slave for a year in exchange for him sending me to Vulcan afterwards? Hell, I'd agree to a decade if he'd be willing to send me to Risa.
LivingintheKubrick@reddit
No no, he has a point.
2lostnspace2@reddit
Why? He's right we are, and we suck
Magickquill@reddit
I can't argue.
DasCheeseWizard@reddit
I chortled.
sinkajoskua@reddit
the trial is still on going
TakayaNonori@reddit
Not wrong.
nowspitonme@reddit
Humans have to change if you don’t you WILL ALL DIE. Looks like you have a death wish then…..
phoenixs13@reddit
Didn’t he say child-like race?
Azureink-2021@reddit
I think the current political climate is proving his point.
bshaddo@reddit
He could take us now, and I’d struggle to provide a convincing counterargument.
Treelilmunkeys@reddit
No, not today I won't. Not today.
Shadoecat150@reddit
I'm not going to because I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying
poofandmook@reddit
ah nope, no. Can't do that. In fact do you have another chair? Imma come sit on that side.
Dizzy-Violinist-1772@reddit
Sorry Q I agree with you
Fine-Funny6956@reddit
Q who? Oh right. Yeah, no. Bring on the Borg.
MarkEv75@reddit
They wouldn’t bother with us just set a reminder to come back in a few thousand years to see if the cockroaches have developed any cool technology.
vagrantspirit@reddit
I'll stick around for content, as long as i can consume good content i'll live, i hoped there was a possibility i could stick around somehow to see the end of the universe, but clearly not with this species it seems, hope is dead.
Agwatson87@reddit
I started my rewatch of TNG this morning. Trek got me through the first Trump term. if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Yotsuya_san@reddit
Might I recommend Babylon 5? There are large parts of it that will unfortunately seem very, very topical... But hope wins in the end.
Agwatson87@reddit
I’ll rewatch B5 after I finish the Trek series. 🤣
Talnesa@reddit
It’s going to be so much worse now though. I don’t think even Star Trek will help
CaydenSworn@reddit
Exterminate us, Q. You'd be saving the galaxy.
Calm_Squid@reddit
Why waste the energy expediting a foregone conclusion?
FortunesBarnacle@reddit
Give the next species in line their chance. At this rate humanity doesn't have more than a few generations left anyways.
CaydenSworn@reddit
Wonder if he'd let me transfer...
FortunesBarnacle@reddit
If you can convince him that it'd annoy Picard, he just might.
Koorsboom@reddit
Wrong fucking day for this.
Yotsuya_san@reddit
I'm with Q today. (Specifically the Star Trek one, just to be absolutely clear here.)
SwissLeprechaun@reddit
How dare young people want to be able to afford homes?!? Only rich liberals are allowed to own homes!
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-college-students-homeless-rvs-cal-poly-humbodt/
https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/california-homelessness-is-homegrown-university-of-california-research/
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/florida-texas-home-sales-american-housing-inventory-4d937ed3
captaindata1701@reddit
Considering Q's behavior before his child and a civil war over Quinn they are not as far off as one would believe.
xeskind30@reddit
Ah, just get him in the ring and punch him. Then we no longer have to play his game.
fryamtheeggguy@reddit
Nah. I would rather just watch Sisko punch you in the face.
SJSUMichael@reddit
I got nothing, Q.
TheVoicesOfBrian@reddit
Yeah, I'm with Q on this one.
Arch27@reddit
No... no, he's got a point.
rockviper@reddit
No, you are right!
WarPony75567@reddit
Sometimes it’s possible to be both correct and loose
RonnieShylock@reddit
Technically true.
evilmaus@reddit
Loose? Like the opposite of tight?
EpsilonBear@reddit
Q changed my mind
disdkatster@reddit
The USA just elected Trump. No way I would argue this one.
disdkatster@reddit
Also, I really dislike conspiracy crap but Trump sayin "You don't even have to vote. I will win" just keeps popping up in my head.
anythingMuchShorter@reddit
Right now I can’t disagree with him there. He’s right.
illinoishokie@reddit
Nah fam. I'm 100% rooting for those amino acids to never form that first protein at this point.
SailorCentauri@reddit
Q is right. I can't even deny it.
westraz@reddit
assuming things go as ST says, by the time of TNG when he says this, it is not true, but then you know the demon war...
falcore91@reddit
I’m thinking of writing myself a little notebook on guidelines to better emulate this. Rules of Acquisition are going in there, any other suggestions?
Toronto-Will@reddit
Not now, Q.
Sayster_A@reddit
But I agree?
Okay. . . We are Cruel and savage while at the same time Kind and empathetic. . . it's just sometimes one side wins out. And sometimes when one side wins out the other side steps in
Affectionate-Car487@reddit
Nope. Not changing it. He’s correct. Snap us out of here Q.
TheArmoursmith@reddit
On today of all days, I'm not sure I disagree with him
Ok_Teacher_6834@reddit
After yesterdays election I’m with q on this
SuperJebba@reddit
Came here to say this
High_Overseer_Dukat@reddit
You are right q. Unlike we, the glorious Cardassians.
N7_Warden@reddit
Nope you are absolutely right.
20 years working ground level customer service during Christmas time, proves that good will to your fellow man is biggest load of BS ever dished out. Karen's are not a new concept
Prestigious_Big_518@reddit
Can't
Agreeable-Arugula360@reddit
Not today
Longjumping-Low8194@reddit
I would love to buuuuut......
piney@reddit
Humanity is not a cruel and savage race, it’s a cruel and savage species.
EffyDoodle@reddit
No 🙂
Victory_Highway@reddit
Can’t
Alternative-Juice-15@reddit
Can’t argue with that
ClarkMann52@reddit
The universe is a trial. They run towards Verdict
saline_prospects@reddit
Q was right
Disk-Dungeon@reddit
Totally right Q
DanTheMeek@reddit
The US population, at least, ain't beating the allegations after yesterday.
Sink-Em-Low@reddit
GUILTY
Lilith_Christine@reddit
He's right
EmonOkari@reddit
PUNCH