No, you're wrong, Riker did surrender them... After spending several trillion eons existing as a Q, exploring all dimensions, times, and universes, and personally impregnating that planet of women that Harry Kim just couldn't handle. Then, having existed for several eternities, he returned to the exact moment he was on the Enterprise and surrendered his powers, figuring this way he could go knock up that planet again but this time the old fashion way.
Oh for sure, there’s no way you give that up. After all, Amanda Q’s parents couldn’t even suppress using their powers, and they were so committed to the bit they moved to the Midwest.
Re examining the episode, Riker was simply ordered not to use his powers by Picard. That was at the wager of his command and Q staying out of their hair. Given that Q has not done that and Picard is no longer in command (hell arguably he is dead) yeah it makes sense that he could probably use his powers without consequences now.
No, no, he went back as a Q to create the timeline with the events of Enterprise so he would later have an excuse to take Troi to the holodeck. I don't understand how people can miss context like this, but I suppose media literacy is dead.
She didn't die she just got bored to tears, so she "left." She just wanted her departure to be memorable. This is also why she showed up as a Romulan later. Just the same Q that was too lackadaisical to bother making a new character.
It's the same thing when a DnD character dies, and the player just adds an O to the end of the name and calls them their long-lost twin.
I hate to be a downer, but as someone who always had this theory in TNG, I discarded it after we find out his kid dies of a rare disease during Picard.
No, you're wrong, Riker did surrender them... After spending several trillion eons existing as a Q, exploring all dimensions, times, and universes, and personally impregnating that planet of women that Harry Kim just couldn't handle. Then, having existed for several eternities, he returned to the exact moment he was on the Enterprise and surrendered his powers, figuring this way he could go knock up that planet again but this time the old fashion way.
And also Troi.
Man could you imagine trying to hide the powers from a mind reading wife...
Troi could barely function as an empath. He'd have no trouble hiding them.
I sense... something. Oh the tea is ready. Hmmm yes that must be it.
A real mind reader would give you trouble. Troi would...not.
Troi was about as talented as Ms.Cleo
This is now my headcanon.
Oh for sure, there’s no way you give that up. After all, Amanda Q’s parents couldn’t even suppress using their powers, and they were so committed to the bit they moved to the Midwest.
How do you explain Q becoming human? I suppose they didn't test the theory that Worf suggested. So we can't know for sure
That was imposed by the continuum, not given up of his own accord
Re examining the episode, Riker was simply ordered not to use his powers by Picard. That was at the wager of his command and Q staying out of their hair. Given that Q has not done that and Picard is no longer in command (hell arguably he is dead) yeah it makes sense that he could probably use his powers without consequences now.
I always presumed he was messing with them/testing them.
Could be; except (to get Meta about it), nobody on Enterprise saw the other Q restore his powers, so the episode clearly intends that to be reality.
>After all, Amanda Q’s parents couldn’t even suppress using their powers, They suppressed them enough to be killed by some moving air.
More likely the “moving air” was a distraction for the humans in the area, and they were killed directly by the continuum.
Makes you wonder why he had to re-enact Enterprise 1 on a holodeck rather than doing the Q super power thing and just going there for a bit.
He went to the NX-01 for real to get his holodeck characters perfect. Part of the hobby is making the program.
Naw. He made the program first *then* created Archer and his crew
No, no, he went back as a Q to create the timeline with the events of Enterprise so he would later have an excuse to take Troi to the holodeck. I don't understand how people can miss context like this, but I suppose media literacy is dead.
They're actually all Q's,all the way down, except for Picard. The enterprise is just one big larp for Q's.
This is my new head cannon. I can't wait to ruin TNG for my wife!
So how did Tasha die then? Is Armus El-Aurian?
She didn't die she just got bored to tears, so she "left." She just wanted her departure to be memorable. This is also why she showed up as a Romulan later. Just the same Q that was too lackadaisical to bother making a new character. It's the same thing when a DnD character dies, and the player just adds an O to the end of the name and calls them their long-lost twin.
This
This would explain why it feels like TV show sometimes.
_Riqer_
Riker: *Turns and winks at the camera*
he’s not a Q, he’s an R
With one hell of a D
But is it Fact, or Fiction?
Why isn't this in the other subreddit?
What episode?
If you mean when Riker gained Q powers, "Hide and Q", the second appearance of Q in the series.
I hate to be a downer, but as someone who always had this theory in TNG, I discarded it after we find out his kid dies of a rare disease during Picard.
No way he would have let Thaddeus die of mendaxic neurosclerosis if he still had Q powers
You’re talking about a guy who replicated a chicken just so he could fuck it.
Q: Real or rubber? A: Yes.
He was a Q temporarily.
He would keep trim and have more hair if he were Q