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Is STO Q an Iconian?
anazonda
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Now we know that pretty much everything is the plan of the Iconians in STO...
In fact, the only non-iconian controled NPC "enemy" we've seen thus far, is Q...
This of cause opens the Question: Is the Q we know in STO, just an Iconian in disguise? Is it a plot to provoke an incident between the Q and the Humanoids of the alpha and beta quadrants?
I wonder...
In fact, the only non-iconian controled NPC "enemy" we've seen thus far, is Q...
This of cause opens the Question: Is the Q we know in STO, just an Iconian in disguise? Is it a plot to provoke an incident between the Q and the Humanoids of the alpha and beta quadrants?
I wonder...
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No... But it seems to be a reasonable question at this point...
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Perhaps , but it also depends on your own outlook me thinks .
Those who want to see Iconians behind every tree would very well be susceptible to accept "Iconians" as an answer to anything not understood & possibly hostile .
On one hand Q fits both those descriptions (in the tv shows).
On the other , his adoring minions sell silly hats to my Gorn & Caitians .
The letter puts me in deep doubt as to his STO vilanny ... as somehow silly hats are not what I think of as the Iconians latest depraved plan ... .;)
But we know that the Q respect, perhaps even fear, the Borg.
The Iconians are much more advanced than the Borg, so it stands to reason that they could easily take on the appearence of Q and poke around in our mediocre lives a little...
I would agree, apart from the fact that we know that even the Q have weaknesses that "regular" beings can exploit (as indicated by Q(uinn)s statement to Tuvok), and Q-Junior clearly being put in his place in the video linked above.
After all, why would the continuum be bothered by Q-Junior provoking the borg, if the borg could not harm them?
Given what we know of the Q, they'd likely would not even bother sending them back to where they came from.
Even though this could be considered non-canon, this novel however does reveal that there are in fact, beings as powerful, if not more powerful than the common single Q!
http://www.amazon.com/Q-Zone-Star-Trek-Next-Generation/dp/067101921X/ref=pd_sim_b_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=1S5Q67BWH9MSJ250ETAP
I read it years back and, it was a pretty decent book imo!
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
All he said was not to provoke the Borg.
The Borg are incredibly destructive and their reaction to an unfettered Q using them as a plaything would be somewhat unpredictable. Said reaction could cause a great deal of death and destruction as collateral damage, which is unacceptable and would be irritating insofar as having to, as Q lamented about his son, having to clean up the mess. The idea the Borg could do the slightest bit of anything at all to the Q is laughable, to put it in the most charitable terms.
Also, Quinn does not indicate that such weaknesses are of the kind that would allow lesser beings to actually harm them. The Q have more than enough personality to be potentially manipulated or such; Q himself would almost certainly react favourably to flattery for his ego.....a weakness.
Finally, we know the Q Continuum as a whole can overcome and depower a single Q. This was done to Q himself, and his son. No-one else can do this.
The idea of anything of mortal comprehension like a mere star or physical object being worth even chump change to a Q is restricted to the novels. In the actual series, Q idly noted that the solution to the destabilising orbit of a moon was to change the gravitational constant of the universe. That is, quite frankly, absolutely mental. In terms of fighting between Q, stars were involved during the Q Civil War.....entire regions of space having stars go supernova was collateral damage of Q combat in a completely different dimension. They were shredding subspace like sparks off a clashing blade.
The one on the TNG episode 'Survivors' removed from existence an entire race of billions with a single thought ...
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Also in most of Delancey Q's encounters he was never really an enemy, there was never malevolent intent, in the end there was almost always a lesson he wanted Picard and by extension humanity to learn.
Lastly let's bear in mind that the Iconians as the big bad race is a product of STO manufacture, just as Species 8472 and the Voth have been twisted into something far different from what they were. So far as any of the TV series were concerned the Iconians were a just long dead race who had been destroyed because their portal technology was greatly feared and all that remains of them are their artifacts scattered around the galaxy.
All that aside whatever Q may be, he has never been an enemy.
I just noticed STO Q, this Q I believe is Q junior and is established in Voyager to be Q and this is really getting silly having no reference for the plural or identity when referring to these jokers.