I wish I could give this comment a million thumbs up!!!

@@michaelzack7935 Thanks for the compliment

A million social scientists just got chills at the suggestion that anything can be called 'the truth'.

@@Its__Good Water is wet. That's the truth. Certain things are unarguable facts

Try putting that as an answer in your sociology exam ;-)

Nice, thx mate, will definitely give it a shot.

Thanks for the recommendation. I got it free on Amazon plus.

Read the paperback book, need to get the audiobook…

Thank you for the recommendation. I just got it on Audible.

I've read it before. But to hear it will be great. Thanks for the recommendation.

Or that teacher from school you remember not liking much but for whom later on in life you remember learning the most from because they challenged you and made you think outside the box or bushed you one step further than you thought you could go, you might of hated them at the time and were very tempted to toilet paper their house, but later on as you matured realized without that teacher preparing you, your life might look a lot different.

The dad from a boy named Sue?

Vectory?

@@Knight860 this is true for many friends of mine, not myself... but then, the teachers i hated then, were not doing what they did to help students, most just hated teaching whatever subject they were teaching and didnt hide that fact... my jr.high math and PE teacher for one term was the worst i can think of about that, she only wanted to teach PE, but had to do other subjects due to how the contracts are setup, only other subject she was qualified in was math... and she sucked at teaching it... i got kicked out of class one day for standing up and asking if anybody else needed any help, since the teacher wasnt going to help we would need to do it ourselves... she only got mad when people started to group up and work togather and talk.. she wanted abject silence as she surfed early Ebay and similar sites for stuff to buy... she kicked me out, thinking my father who was a teacher there would take her side... the admin and my father on the other hand, asked other students, and, she had a "TA" for the rest of her time teaching maths... who was really there to make sure she did her job and didnt treat kids poorly as she had been known to do... the weird part, years later i realized why she was so nice to the larger more butch girls... i knew she was gay back then but.. it didnt kick in that she was nice to girls she felt akin to and had a thing for... and nasty to guys and pretty/skinny/small girls... this understanding hit after talking with other teachers from back then and some of the students i went to school with... we all came to this as a group... and it made sense why she ended up leaving the school to work for a private girls school... that catered to "non-binary" people... (i know 3 gals who went there... funny enough all are married with kids and have been for decades... despite being sent to a school for as they put it, in a joking tone "the gays"... thing is they neither care about that shit nore ever did.. they were never gay/bi/trans/etc.. just tomboys that were not interested in sex and boys the way they were expected to be by so many around them... ones mother was trying to do the right thing sending her to be with what she was told would be her own community, when mom found out daughter was not only dating but sleeping with a boy from one house over on the block behind their home... she was very confused... teachers and counselors told her that her daughter was gay... her daughters dating and banging a boy... she decided to talk to her about it and found out, she didnt mind going to the all girls school and wasnt alone in being straight there, some had weird parents some had parents who were in the same shoes as hers... but wouldnt listen to their own kid due to authority figures from the school telling them conflicting info... its fucked up but..welcome to humanity.. on the other hand the teachers i think of that taught me the most... are ones i always respected, even if we didnt always get along... i have since also had more teachers then i can genuinely count walk up to me in public and shake my hand or hug me, and tell me, they learned alot from me, i was always full of useless facts, that checked out... i was also not what i thought i was seen as... most teachers apparently liked me, even if i annoyed the shit out of them... i was much better liked then i thought... sometimes because, i did the "tough love" type shit on them when the fucked up... had a teacher in highschool who nearly blew up a class room... she almost dumped a bunch of random stuff down a sink in the classroom... thank gods i stopped her... after going over what she had... toxic gas and an explosion would 100% have happened... this little white woman was down on her knees in front of me doing a full japanese bow head to floor over and over apologizing... i wasnt even in chemistry, i was working on her POS MAC, again and... well... damn good i stopped her.. genuinely could have killed somebody... after that i got the old chem teacher who was subbing another class to go talk to her and help her avoid such possible mistakes.. she never intended to teach chem.. but there wwasnt an opening in the area for math or teaching languages, so she took what she could get, and failed to admit she wasnt really qualified to run a class with an active lab... the principle had a few of us whos parents he knew help them clean out the stores and re-lable everything so it was safe and we had a local old man come and get stuff that was nolonger considered safe to use in public school labs... the old man was the chem teacher when my mother was in highschool... and very happy for all the glass and chemicals... told us a few would need a chemical wash of their own to be made useable again but... he had all the stuff at home to do the job... that old man was cool as hell... learned alot from him.. in trade for my having helped him get his riding mowerr running one day when i was walking home from school, he taught me alot of little skills, he was 100% incapable of mechanics though... changing a spark plug was something he didnt feel comfortable doing ffs... anyway.. in the end.. i loved teachers that challanged me, but not ones who where disrespectful a-holes... can say that for people in general... now, i also know some people who come off as gruff and mean.. who in reality are just amazingly socially inept and... when you realize that... and start to know them... it becomes obvious that "mean" was a perception that wasnt backed by any facts what so ever... in reality hes kind guy whos just... not the best with interpersonal communication... (when a guy will spent 90min driving you home, in your car, and get a ride back to work from his kid, because you looked a bit off and... seemed to have a fever... and he wanted you to go sleep and get back in proper working shape... then his kid shows up having been given the night off with pay, and some cash to grab food and come feed me... then the fool calls and has his daughter put it on speaker and... proceeds to tell her not to "break his dick" and me that if i get her knocked up, i better be ready to marry... (if you didnt know him, it would come off as a threat, knowing him, fucker was being cheeky... and telling us both that 1. his daughter was into me, 2. that he knew it, and if i didnt know before i did now, and 3. that he really enjoys trolling his daughter... like really really enjoys it... LOL... either way... i wasnt actually ill just... running on fuck all sleep since i had been at the office till 3am helping get something back up and running for the morning and. then it took over an hour to get home, i had to eat, shower, etc... got f-all for restful sleep then headed back to work for my normal day... when he found out, he told me that if it happened again toss him an email and stay home the next day if i dont get at least 6hrs sleep, genine dude... that often comes off as an ass... autism..its a hell of a drug.. ;)

well when you look at how the shows were aired and that the story was in fact added on later then on some level those people say the truth - TNG was the first show that introduced the borg - later shows basically expanded the story and twisted in sub plots that changed that perspective quie a lot. So when watched from chronological point of view of the shows when they aired TNG was the frist contatct per say but from the universe perspective this aint the case.

@@krzosu Timey Wimey stuff ends up changing things. But even if you only factor in ST-TNG, “Neutral Zone” aired before “Q Who” and in “Q Who” they finally figure out who was the mysterious culprit in “Neutral Zone” If it weren’t for Q that mystery wouldn’t have been solved until a Cube entered Federation space.

Q seems only "neutral" when it suits his... reasons for coming to Picard. More often, Q acts like a semi - benevolent trickster god. He is present because he and the Q continuum have found humanity of interest beyond humanity being a future potential rival or better.

And yet Q’s advice to his own son “don’t provoke the borg!”

It seems likely that the borg cube that they encountered was already on the way to the federation. If this is the case then what Q was doing was saving the federation far more directly than just giving them a warning. Especially since he has seen the future and so knows what his interference will do. I've always suspected that part of the reason for Q's impish personality is because he doesn't want humanity to know they have someone looking out for them. He doesn't want people to worship him, he wants people who become stronger and so he acts like someone they would never worship.

"I am not a Merry man!"

I still like Worf's one liner (one word reply) in Deja Q more: Q: Q the miserable. Q the desperate. What must I do to convince you people? WORF: Die.

Even then neither truly fit him. He defies categorisation. He's an enigma and a paradox. He's got the power to end the universe (at least, in theory) yet spends so much time (or what we perceive as time) with remarkably petty matters (that he takes deadly serious) and treats cosmic disasters with childlike delight. He's chaos and order, unrestrained and restrained at the same time. He's unknowable, ultimately - yet seems to want to be known.

either or neither would be my opinion, he's just an immortal who's bored out of his mind. That's why he takes such an interest in Picard, probably Q's only friend even if Picard doesn't want to admit it. Being good or evil isn't a good way to describe Q. They can be good but they have Rules, they can be evil but they have Rules. If you're immortal and lived for as long as Q has, messing with people would be normal for you. Seeing how you got nothing better to do.

Q is ... Q.

I've categorized Q as a lost ball in the high weeds of the universe. Some of what he's done is dangerous. Most of it is smug pomposity. He's superior to you and never lets you forget it. Sisko had the right approach...after he laid Q out he never came back to DS9.

@@spaceflight1019 -- I'm still trying to figure out if Sisko punching Q out was a pass or a fail given that Sisko was a prominent wartime commander and warship designer. Given how I think the Q experience time, I think the only way to shock Q would be if Sisko punched Q in *every* possible outcome of that episode.

But that Q is short for Quartermaster. Not the case here.

I´m sorry for your loss. Best wishes from a fellow Star Trek fan.

I wish all the good wishes. Keep on keeping on.

Sorry for your loss. Lost my mom in 2020. May the happy memories always surpass the grief.

My condolences,I got into Trek watching with my mother during TNGs og run. So your post made me tear up just a little bit. God bless

he would not have injured you do you recognize this the stun setting? what would the stun setting do to a Q?

@@raven4k998 -- In his first appearance, Q's mannerisms were off by a couple centuries. The mere idea of pulling any kind of weapon on a visiting ambassador (no matter how much of a jerk they were) was an offense and could start a war in medieval europe. Plus, it gave Q the ability to demonstrate his godlike ability to kill and resurrect on a whim. Just imagine being that security officer though - that's nightmare fuel.

@@Grizabeebles but was he really off? If you objectively look at the Federation could you not see 24th century man being the same as 21st century man but with replicators? The one thing DS9 taught me was that humanity still held onto the same issues that plagues us today.

Q has space herpie's poor thing

Picard: "I should've done this years ago." Troi: "You were always welcome." Picard: "Well, the game is Five card stud; nothing wild _and the sky's the limit._ " [Pan back, Ext. Enterprise sailing into distance. Fade to Black.]

I may have a, if not unique, very specific perspective, but I found All Good Things to be a very good episode, but an equally disappointing finale. I graduated high school in '95, so I grew up with these characters through very formative years. After watching the show for its original 7-year run to have it end on "Yup, it just keeps going," but STILL ENDING the series was an incredible let down for me. "The Trial never ended," was a profound revelation, but it also meant nothing was resolved.

@@chrisconner5777 That's a good point. I think though the way it was open ended helped in the re-watchability though. Like it didn't mess up what was already there, it just ended on a high note and kept going in the background. (The opposite would be game of thrones, where it just completely destroys all the character development and world building, and goes off the rails in the last 2+ seasons)

@Steven Schiro I do agree with you there. It is a much better finale on rewatching years later. Modern binge watching brings a completely different experience.

@@chrisconner5777 The way it ended was perfect, because even though we don't get any more episodes, we know that Picard and co. are still out there exploring the galaxy, going on more adventures, even if we can't see them. That's a nice thought. Since I consider 'All Good Things' to be the last time we see the crew of the Enterprise-D, none of the awful nonsense that happens in the movies or 'Picard' is canon to me.

While it is a good read, the Q continuum book is not cannon and does not reflect exactly how the Q's are shown to be ( on screen ). Q behaves mostly as a trickster god from human lore, not necessarily working against humanity, but making us grow through challenge and struggle.

I'm certain that there's a timeline Q is trying to create where the universe is like a garden and Q is trying to raise Picard like a very rare and delicate flower. Or carefully shape him like a bonsai tree. I'm hoping Season 2 of Picard is all about pruning the "stunted" branches on Picard's timeline.

Nashville?

@@LoreReloadedBirmingham actually

Maybe just a ordinary Q but it would be an interesting way to close off Picard's life story

Your homes door blocks out unwanted trespassers. After reading theI,Q novel, I didnt get that the Q cannot freely move in and out of the Milky Way galaxy.

@@ericpowell4350 Name one time he appeared and indicated that he could leave the galaxy. Even his romp with Vash to impress the lowly human never left the galaxy according to what little she says in impressive places she went.

@@WarGiver LOL The Q, the beings that live for millenia AND built the barrier have to prove they can cross it within a time span of a century worth of onscreen antics? The Kelvin's on TOS crossed it with advanced tech. The traveler in TNG crossed it with ... wait for it ... advanced tech. Ryker's novelization traversed it with Federation tech through a subspace fissure. Are you telling me the Q can't get past their own security system? LOL

@@ericpowell4350 again you are assuming, not proving.

@@WarGiver Bro, are you in middle school? You're debating this like it's rooted in reality and not a complete work of fiction. Good luck! LOL

Q seems troubled on Picard show but sick? I'm not sure. It was usually in Q's interest to give clues to Picard on how Picard can save humanity in the past series, that is after Picard passed his test in the TNG opening show Farpoint. Q towards the end of TNG had a fondness for Picard. He is not villain or hero exactly. So I am hoping the writers make his character consistent to past performances. Q slapping Picard did seem odd though. But can someone tell me what happens to the evil Picard in the alternate timeline when the Prime universe Picard takes over his body. Or is this a "Quantum Leap" show sort of thing? There, the original people went to a waiting room in that show and return later after the hero leaves the body.

My theory is that something possibly more powerful than the Q are responsible for messing with time and this has had an impact even on the Q Continuum. Q’s not sick at least not in the traditional ill health sense, yet somethings not right either, the change to time has effected him, maybe like vestiges of the new timeline are bleeding into his character without fully overwriting it, I can’t quite put into words what I mean. Of course this theory is nothing but the wild speculation of my imagination and not evidence based.

@@clairewilliams9416 Sometimes all we have is the wild speculation of our imagination to keep us going.