I thought Discovery season 3 was better than previous seasons
I thought Discovery season 3 was better than previous seasons
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Couldn't Q just...snap his fingers and make Picard flesh and blood again, minus the brain thing he was suffering from? I wonder if that's the first thing he'll do when they see each other, before he sets them on...whatever he has planned for everyone.
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In hindsight (because he travels back and forth in time), he could have also known they made it out safely, everything turned out ok, etc.
I consider him "generally good", he's intervened positively on behalf of humanity in the past. (Moreso than the trouble he's caused)
Two different situations, though. If Q has them back on trial/some new game, Picard comes in at an advantage and Q would be making things "even". His relationship with Voyager, or rather Janeway, was entirely different. They weren't on trial but in a reversal the captain was the arbiter, and he made the offer to send them home to butter her up to rule in his favor in regards to the Q who wanted to commit suicide. Janeway rightfully didn't want to be in his debt. It then became part fascination, part "friend who always fixes your problems". And as a friend he'd respect her wishes. Q and Picard's "relationship" is more nuanced than that (or arguably worse), a deity and his favorite "toy".
Now, the writers could ignore it, too, but we have new writers/a new showrunner who may (I stress may) not want to deal with that and this is the perfect way to do away with it. IF they choose to.
I think the balance they were trying to strike with Q (until the Voyager eps anyway) was that he's not evil in the traditional sense of the word, but at the same time has no moral center either. He's self serving, and from that can come good deeds, but from that also came his desire to put humanity on trial. "The trial never ends." He's really a slightly less juvenile Trelane.
The only thing I'd like to see undone when the timeline is restored is Riker and Troi's son's death. Out of everything in Picard s1, that seemed the most gratuitous suffering. It was worse than offing the vineyard Picards in Generations.
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