Tach Bah, Tach beh!

@@KH4444444444N Yeah yeah...most of us still have to read Shakespear in the original klingon..

Q gangsta until Jean Luc starts quoting the Prince of Denmark

Insincere endorsement: You haven't experienced Shakespeare until you have heard it in the voice of Elcor.

@@KH4444444444N I'll hazard a guess at to be or not to be lol

Well, to be fair, even without explosions Discovery is piece of shit.

This is why I disliked Discovery. It doesn't "feel like" a Star Trek because the only thing it has in common with these series' is the name. I don't watch TNG for action: nobody does. I watch it because it's beautifully thought-provoking in both its plots and its resolutions and that conflict does not require physical force to cause or overcome. Aliens won't GTFO of your planet because of their crazy laws? Beat them with those crazy laws.

That's why God made "The Orville," and by God I mean Seth McFarlene.

Exactly, to me Star Trek is not a sci-fi show it is a way of life!

Well, explosions are the fun cherry on top of the existential crisis inducing sundae. ;)

And yet couldn't get rid of him if he tried

@@1993bahamut Q was the ultimate troll

When did Janeway outsmart Q?

What you just point about about Sisko, Janeway and Picard and how they each handled Q differently. This truly shows the mulitplicious nature of the human species, and that is what frightens Q and other species (like even the Vulcans). Humans can deal with their problems in ways that are not predictable by others. We can be deeply introspective and secure within our selves (Picard method); we can outwit our opponents by thinking outside the box (Janeway method); at worst, we can be stubborn, obstinate and violent all WHILE by smart (Sisko method).

What would Kirk do to Q? Confuse him by challenging him to a game of Fizbin?

epic

That's what I love about Picard, he's a true renaissance man, he can defend his position equally with rhetoric or the sword, a true warrior scholar.

@@thitsugaya1224 He most certainly believed that the pen was mightier than the sword. Where has that version gone?

HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE FRENCH!

@@Kirealta :Smiles: Riiiiiiiiiight.

@@Kirealta A very strange Frenchman who prizes the' rosbif' Shakespeare over his own country's literature! Of course, by the 24th century we're supposed to be over that petty nonsense. 😎

@@ShanghaiRooster THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH WILL NEVER BE OVER IT!!

he he he he he he he he he Picard One Q Zero LOL

“no one person has a monopoly on what it means to be human” This is something I could see many, many people start to repeat. Excellently worded.

very well-said!

Then Q gave the Federation it's early warning of the Borg. And Picard suffered unspeakable in the conflict that followed. And that trauma, later Picard saw by his own example what the original interpretation meant.

@@XX-sp3tt can you elaborate on and specify what you mean?

This hit me really hard thanks ;-;

I was trying to find an eloquent way to express just that and you encapsulated it brilliantly. 🖖👏

It's true. One persons irony can easily be another's inspiration to over achieve and go beyond.

Nicely done.

Great analysis. Also from a technical point of view this is very good writing. It would have been easy for the line to be for Picard to quote it straight without the comparison between Hamlets irony and his sincerity. It's not often episodic scifi also slips in some literary analysis.

Beautifully put! A distinction between knowledge and wisdom, perhaps.

Reviewing the episodes with that in mind gives me endless joy.

Indeed, and I am a bit disheartened that it wasn't brought up by picaard in the trail for Data's personhood. Q wasn't accusing them for crimes in the past; he was talking about the federation's failures in the show's present date.

The true tests never end...

Sometimes the harshest critic only does so because they believe the thing is able to be better than it presently is. There's shades of this idea in Sisko grilling Nog on his Starfleet aspirations.

@@ryanmaxwell2174 and by extension our own present day fsilures.

Ahh yes despite the blatant lie of heliocentric functionality which is so clearly the devils forked tongue at play. There is more hope in the truth than this outdated and dusty reel of film.

And, in fact, that is *exactly* what Q suggests humanity may yet become to Riker in this same episode.

@@BossyGuyMike I think picard ruined Q's game, and see right through the charade. That picard jumped straight to the end, he likes toying with people who don't know whats going on.

@@blawson3603 when did he say that though? I mean we know the Q is beyond time and the Q definitely are aware of something humbling them about humanity in the future

@@unowno123 I think humanity is the Q continuum of an extremely distant future. Also perhaps the fact that he targeted Picard is somewhat akin to a time travelled going back to a significant historical figure. Like if we went back in time to Martin Luther King and toyed with him to see every possible facet of his personality

Thank God, he's not from Liverpool or else we'd have needed English subtitles

@@czdaniel1 *human subtitles

@@tomwithey711 Lolz

@@czdaniel1 trust me if he'd used his native Yorkshire accent you would need them too.

“…apples to the ears”? OK, here you go 🍎🍎🍎🦻🏽🦻🏽🦻🏽🤪

I seem to remember Q instilling them some humility not to long after this by dropping them in front of a Borg Cube. It's good to want to better yourself. It's dangerous, however, to be arrogant about it.

Nice

You forgot the end. ''And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?''

Thinker Babam That's the extended version. :D

Absolutely beautiful! shakespeare was right on the money in so many things about humanity. this is one of the reasons why i Love TNG!

Shows you what Shakespeare knew about man....Sweet fuck all.

Sixtus Magicus No, he's arrogant. The crew of the Enterprise-D were all incredibly arrogant (except Geordi and Data, to be honest) before Q decided to introduce them to the Borg. I mean, they acted like some pompous ass who just became a vegan and being all smug and thinking they are so morally superior to all us meat eaters.

Plaicarad is argent he he is opininmants ses macnkind can be on the and q is a

Q isn't afraid of it, he hopes for it. Q is humanities biggest advocate within the continuum.

@@ahorribleperson3302 i know, but i am not sure that is true at the beginning of the relationship.

@@sixtusmagicus2836 That's a fair point.

I appreciate daytopinin sci as much as Star Trek next guy but this opining lore

Richard E Grant in the end scene of Withnail & I is the best Hamlet ever, Peace.

Prof Mole it will never be topped, Peace.

He's certainly up there. His good buddy Sir Ian is just as good, though, and Sir Derek Jacoby as well.

One of my favorite scenes between Q and Picard, they should have had more of Q in ST.

David Tennant actually did a pretty good Hamlet. Look it up.

How would you feel if you lost an argument to an ant?

@@Mrcryptidsarereal I'd want to get that ant on television, honestly.

"I am curious. Have the Q always had an absence of manners, or is it the result of some natural evolutionary process that comes with omnipotence?"

The Internetians are absolutely correct and so are you :]

;D

Good thing he's only almost omnipotent and not omniscient. Q fears that humans would one day evolve to be Gods. Imagine, humans being not only omnipotent but omniscient and omnipresent. The true representation of a complete God. Now where would that place the continuum?

@@Genkuro After all the whole plot of one voyager episode was how the continium had stagnated, they had seen all to be seen. Which is quite ironic because I highly doubt they've gone to alternate realities and they have to know Kirk did it. They saw humanity already surpass them by accident and hate it

@@thunderspark1536 - Hear Hear!!!!

I like to think that QQ getting punched by Sisko, was more about Q testing Sisko, not as a man, but as one of the wormhole aliens. And that it was the power of being one of those aliens, that allowed him to deck Q.

@@nunya3163 That's a good theory. I like that. Also explains why we never saw Q on DS9 again.👍

God forbid people might go 1:34 without an explosion

Beastie Boys!

The new writers never read Shakespeare.

it is sad.

No Shakespeare that I'm aware of but first contact had the Moby Dick scene.

Astute!

Little do you know! :D

Im from the future. They have 😊

@@Parallelwurlds And it's fucking horrible, as expected.

They did, woefully they did.

Are you doing a full watch? I did that last year, so enjoyable. Currently doing Voyager!

Hmm, good one. I like it. Humanity has an appetite for the universe to measure itself against and learn. The Q have already experienced the entire universe and in so lost all appetite to become more because they can no longer even imagine more.

No its about change, not growth. Growth is a matter of addition. Change is a matter of altering. Think about it: For thoushands of years many of us thought the future was literally written in the stars. Nowadays we know light takes time to reach us across huge distances so when we look at lights in the sky what we are actually seeing is how things USED to be. We used to believe that nothing travels faster than light, but now most astronomers concur that space itself is expanding faster than light. We used to believe that we were the centre of the Solar system, now obviously we know differently. Star Trek itself has changed in so many ways and to such extents that really not even the makers can be bothered to keep track. Star Trek isn't really about us "one day becoming that". We can never be like "that" or like Q and we really wouldn't want to it'd be maddeningly boring. No, its about adventure, and change is absolutely an ingredient for adventure.

John Cole While I do prefer the later seasons of TNG, and would probably call DS9 my favorite Series, I do miss the optimism.

Then several years later (and three centuries earlier), while Picard is screaming how he will make the Borg pay, Q is out there somewhere, smiling and reciting that same quote with all of the intended irony.

I guess Q was a sore loser and wanted to punish Picard for defeating him in this episode. Problem is, 18 innocent people who had nothing to do with the Picard vs Q feud died at the hands of the Borg just so Q could get his revenge on Picard. It shows how despite all of his powers, Q at times acts like a petty child who can't stand losing to anyone.

Revenge? Did you watch the series. There was no revenge from Q. Q was testing humanity. Q's sending them to the Borg gave the Federation a heads up of what was coming their way. Everything Q did can be seen as helping humanity in some way.

Which turned the Federation into a warlike power, just a Q predicted they always were.

Data is emotionless. Q? No.

But then what fun would it be?

Bolbi Stragnavowski Q WITNESS U. I LOVE YOU. YOUR MUM GEYYYYYYYYYY REEEEEEEEEEEE÷EEEEEEEEEEEE

Several times.

yeah I did!

That's a really interesting head canon that will likely haunt me everytime I watch this scene.

And _The Inner Light,_ almost universally agreed to be the best episode of the series, and a fair competitor to _City on The Edge of Forever_ for the best episode of any _Star Trek_ series.

@@DistractedGlobeGuy Inner light is season 5 lol. Nonetheless that episode is TNG finest hour imo. Closely followed by Chain of Command Part 2.

The Most Toys as well.

@@piotrd.4850 Wasn't that season 3?

The implication is that the Q fear what Humanity might represent and be capable of when it evolves to the level of the Q. And you would think, 'the Q are omnipotent, so they must already know,' but that's demonstrably not true. The one thing the Q have consistently failed to demonstrate is the capacity to predict the future. And in this one moment, Picard affirms the Continuum's greatest fear regarding Humanity. And since the Continuum cannot predict the future, they have to settle for the next best thing - they have to ensure that Humanity is prepared to face the horrors of existence beyond what it's already encountered. So they hand Q powers to a Human and said Human predictably confirms that the species isn't ready to simply be handed that level of power and responsibility: the Q have to play the long game instead. Humanity demonstrates a staggering amount of arrogance up to and including this episode, so Q throws them at the Borg. Picard's willingness to admit that they're unprepared and beg Q for help is the next test passed. Each subsequent appearance of Q plays out a different aspect of not-so-much 'testing' Humanity as 'prodding' Humanity in the right directions. And so the Federation narrowly manages to survive repeated assimilation attempts by the Collective as well as surviving the wood chipper taken to their idealism in the form of the Dominion War. However STP and STD play out and further mangle the stations of canon, the overarching implication is that the Continuum is expecting Humanity to one day rise to their level of existence and recognize all the interference the Continuum ran back in those days as beneficial to guaranteeing Humanity's survival and eventual ascension. The Continuum would prefer to rig that eventual outcome in their favor, especially as the Continuum isn't the only such race to have taken such notice of Humanity.

I wish the kids knew this stuff - not just Shakespeare - but Star Trek.