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  • kieron115@startrek.websitetoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Still Q's fault in the endEnglish
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    24 days ago

    It’s possible humanity never gets the chance to encounter the Borg without Q’s interference.

    The Q, believing themselves to be the most superior beings in existence, see themselves as moral guardians of the universe. Seeing as the Q have the same non-linear sense of time that the Bajoran wormhole aliens have then it’s safe to assume that John de Lancie’s Q actually has seen the future where he doesn’t intervene - and decided that doing so was the best course of action for the galaxy. Given his fondness for humanity, and Picard specifically, I think it’s safe to assume that the future where he doesn’t intervene results in humanity being completely decimated by the Dominion (the Defiant was meant to fight the Borg originally, as an example) - the results of which would have irreparably changed the entire Milky Way galaxy for the worse. Not a great look for our supposed moral guardians.

    This idea gets a bit messy, but it could also have just been an elaborate part of the trial. We’ve seen from Voyager episodes that the majority of the continuum has slipped into a sort of eternal stupor, jaded by their infinite existence in a pocket dimension. Given that, I think humanity had already been deemed guilty by the continuum before TNG even starts (from our perspective). The only reason for the trial even existing is that John de Lancie’s Q disagreed with the continuum’s decision and took it upon himself to act as an advocate for humanity. Perhaps he looked further into the future than the rest of the Q, or visited some alternate realities and saw what humanity could become with a push or two in the right direction. Given that humanity eventually “fails” to convince the rest of the continuum that they are in fact more than a savage child-race, the Q created the paradox in “All Good Things…” that would have caused humanity to never have existed at all. John de Lancie’s Q knew he had to take drastic measures to show that humanity was able to be more than what the continuum believed them to be. One of those drastic measures being the encounter with the Borg, looking to give Picard an opportunity to demonstrate humility.

  • kieron115@startrek.websitetocats@lemmy.world•Toxic relationshipEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Just do not do this with an adult cat. At best they won’t react the way you need them to, at worst it could cause actual trauma to the cat and reduce their trust in you. You’re effectively mimicking what a predator like a fox would do to an adult cat and it can make them absolutely freak the f out.