Imagine if Q had shown up.

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BitcoinMD@reddit

Tangent rant, I find the whole narrative of Picard and Q being friends to be so weird. Q did nothing but antagonize Picard, and did things that results in deaths of members of the drew. Q is the type of “friend” that Facebook moms are talking about when they say to cut negative people out of your life.

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Keeping_Hope97@reddit

Well, there's nothing in TNG that suggests that they are friends. Q is somewhat interested in Picard because Picard is genuinely an excellent and model example of humanity at its finest, but there is never any moment where Picard is warm or friendly to Q.

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BitcoinMD@reddit

Exactly. Q does at one point say to Picard “you’re the closest thing I have to a friend,” but he says it in more of a villain trope way, and Picard just eye rolls

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Chuckgofer@reddit

I figure the scene would play out exactly the same way, except it's Q busting Picards balls about the doll instead of Riker. Bonus points if Q steals the doll on his way out.

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Graega@reddit

Q is the doll, and plays it like the end of Toy Story when they're ambushing Sid. He'd get up, walk around, do things to the other kids' submissions when Picard has his back turned, then drop to the table when Picard looks around. But he'd completely keep going when the Admiral is on the viewscreen, and she'd see everything, which Q would use to make Captain Picard Day look even more ridiculous to her.

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AlanShore60607@reddit

TBH, I really would have loved it if Q occasionally popped in to say hi and then ghosted the rest of the episode. That would have been a crazy level of unpredictability.

And maybe once every couple of years he'd pop up as a deus ex machina to save their asses without being asked.

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DoctorAnnual6823@reddit

He'd be incredible as an occasional background cameo. Like the main cast doesn't notice him but when Troi and Riker are yapping in ten forward we just see Q sitting at a table being county, or walking through engineering while Data and Geordi are stopping the ship from blowing itself up because the warp core was made by the worst engineers Hyundai and Ford have to offer.

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hauntedskin@reddit

IIRC they originally wanted Q to show up pretty regularly, but I don't think they had the budget for it.

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Headbangert@reddit

Jesus christ i at this minute was watching this exact episode... oh the intro is now playing shhh up now....

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Starch-Wreck@reddit

Who’s to say Q didn’t change the universes and invent it just to make Jean Luc uncomfortable.

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CsabHorv@reddit

"Con permiso, Capitan. The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It's now time to see if you can dance."

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zoonose99@reddit

We need a Wandavision-style TNG spinoff with Q and Picard

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BEETLEJUICEME@reddit

Should be able to do this with AI in just a few years if we don’t blow ourselves up first

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zoonose99@reddit

In that case I hope we blow up

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tob007@reddit

Turned Picard into the piñata probably and invite a bunch of Klingon kids.

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MintBerryCrnch21@reddit

A bunch of Klingon kids not named Alexander Rozhenko

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ConsciousStretch1028@reddit

I think Q may have founded Captain Picard Day

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Frnklfrwsr@reddit

Captain Picard Day is whenever Q says it is.

It’s not like time is some big deal for him.

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Thin-Man@reddit

Agreed! They mysteriously had a substitute one day - on an isolated ship in space - and, next thing you know…

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Warriordance@reddit

I'm a role model.

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AquafreshBandit@reddit

I'm sure you are.

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Firewalk89@reddit

"Tsk, tsk, mon capitaine. And to think you consider me to be vain. Preposterous!"

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HighValuePanda@reddit

Im on the start of season 7 of a rewatch and feel like i havent seen that fella in years

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security-six@reddit

He's omnipotent. Who's to say that he isn't/wasn't/won't?

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N7VHung@reddit

Q was there all along. How else do you explain the hijinx that happens where Pocard gets stuck in a turbulent and has to sing French nursery rhymes with kids?

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