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Well shit, both look badass.
How humanity really is: ^
I like to think, we're like a middle thing. A little bit from Philippa A, a little bit from Philippa B
I always found it a weird choice to start off with this in season 1 episode 1. What a strange introduction to the Star Trek Next Generation series.
And why didn't Q mess with the Klingons when talking about savage brutes?
They don't pretend not to be cruel and savage.
In fact, they pretend to be cruel and savage even when they're not.
He likes their opera?
You don't know Shakespeare until you heard it in the Klingon original
It's just mythology, third take. So humans are always the main characters of the universe.
Humanity is the middle race between extremes, between some lowly race like demons or dwarves, and some highly race like angels or elves. Tolkien just rephrased it, and so did scifi. Basically all of fiction where there are ~~other humans with weird bodily features~~ other species besides humans is just this trope redone.
And here I am always playing boring human characters in pen and paper role playing games ^^
Well, 99% of the time I'm a GM, but when I get to play, I pick the most generic bland flavour - willingly ^^
Nothing wrong with the classics! I play as a human usually too, sometimes an elf
Tropes are only annoying if done badly, or have become outdated. But the question of humanity will always be something we should ask
Why, it set a more philosophical tone for the series. He's a villain that's completely unbeatable so your only choice is to make him bored so he goes away.
I have no problem with this character or plot lines. I only take issue with it being in the first episode. The series is primarily about exploring new worlds and new civilizations and they managed to encounter the final boss in the first episode. It makes it seem less significant and just a common occurrence. In my opinion we should introduce the characters first under more normal circumstances that actually are common occurrences for them.
I think it showed that the series would require characters to think outside the box. It's not about being smarter or technologically advanced. It's subtle, like real life.
DC Fontana's original Encounter at Farpoint script didn't include the Q storyline at all. That was added by Roddennberry to pad the length.
Why are you booing Q?
He's right.
Y E S, A N D?
And TNG features a humanity that has overcome most of our current cruelty and savagery.
Do you think maybe the race of higher dimensional beings that apparently perceives time as a whole might take a longer view of such things?
Nah.
This is an excellent photoshop. It's just missing some upscaling of the Q layer.
Ikr? First thing i noticed, was the quality.
Edit: i mean the good Photoshop quality, like in Q's proportion, the clean cut out & alignment, etc.
Reading my own comment, without the edit, i sound like i mean Q's bad quality, because not upscaled
Yes. Yes, we are. We had to be to survive, but our lizard brains still think that way even though it now leads us to our destruction.
"I need a lot of people to suffer so I can feel like a bigger winner!"
More like "fuck everyone but me and my tribe!"
Only 8 TNG episodes feature Q
And they are all excellent.
100%
I'll water board you
I don't particularly care for this plot.
Q is omniscient, so he already knew that our history is rife with examples of good people and bad people, brilliant and ignorant... and he comes to judge a fairly utopian future society of a unified, post-capitalism, post-religion Earth? My dude, they're doing fine.
This assumes Q was there to actually judge humanity and not begin a dialogue with Picard and the Federation. In his own omnipotent way. It's not a judgement, it's more of a test or like a training.
It's a question of how these humans justify their image of their own race. I enjoyed it, as all Q episodes it was fun.
It's easy to be a saint in paradise.
Unless the United Federation of Planets is the Warhammer 40K "Dark Age of Technology" and Q saw the rise of the Emperor, chaos and neverending war.
After all TNG took place in the 2370s? The Hours Heresy is in the 30,000s. Plenty of time for humanity to fuck everything up.
He's just poking at us, to make sure it holds under pressure.