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I think oen of the greater details about Captain Picard day that Picard does not understand is that if you look closely the children are drawing him in a positive way such as with smiles or surrounded by stars and I think I see even one where he is standing on earth. And the fact that not only did the children seem to enjoy this but some of them really put a lot of effort in it like with the doll shows that their parents, who work for him, talk rather positively behind his back.

Because I can tell you if Picard was an unpopular captain where during the times the children spend with their parents and the children overhear their parents talking about Picard being too strict, too unfair, etc. then these pictures would look differently.

happy captain picard day!!

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So Wesley is back from the academy and he’s telling Picard that he found out that Picard carved a girls initials into a tree when he was there, but he started the conversation with “What does A.F. stand for?” and in like um,

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finally putting this here after 2 days. i reworked a sketch from march for captain picard day

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They should have made Vash a guy.

Also, I absolutely love, love the photo and just the way Q stares at Picard in a sort 'this could be you but you reject me' sort of way.

Also to be fair to Vash, she is not the Judge of Humanity, she has not frozen Tasha Yar during her first impression with Picard and she has also not thrown the Enterprise to the Borg out of wounded pride. So she at least got this going for her over Q. I do think that even if Q were to present as a woman Picard still would not have given them (?) a chance because while he would be attracted to Qs power in theory he would never risk a relationship with a being who could and would threaten to throw the Enterprise into the next black hole if Picard were to ever break up.

“He’s devious and amoral and unreliable and irresponsible and definitely not to be trusted”

“Remind you of someone you know”

Picard falling in love with the female version of Q is just a queer slap to the face. ✨

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Someone once made a post about Picard being a sort of reverse Manic Pixie Dream Girl because of how repressed he is which makes all the chaotic divas go 'I can fix him'. Also I do love Picard just being cursed with just wanting to do his job while a bunch of powerful/influential people just think he is great Trophy Husband material.

Picard: If I had a nickel for everytime an attractive ‘god like’ creature woke me up and tried to seduce me in my bed I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but is weird it’s happened twice right?

“S4 E13” “S6 E15”

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Q would absolutely make it at least an Alpha Quadrant wide recognized holiday. Which could make for some .. rather interesting reactions ranging from Sarek, Spock, Sisko, Admiral Nechayev and especially Picard himself.

It's worse enough that it gets celebrated on his own ship as a way to 'boost morale'and as a fun project day for the children who apparently view him as a role model. No, now everyone in this Alpha Quadrant is acutely aware that Jean-Luc Picard not only exists but that he is The Favorite (Toy, Pet, Person, no one really knows) of one of the most chaotic beings this side of the universe.

Also Q definitly puts in some of his ... art for the art contest.

Happy Captain Picard day and an annual reminder that we were robbed of an episode where Q finds out and joins in the celebration of Captain Picard day.

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Happy Captain Picard day and an annual reminder that we were robbed of an episode where Q finds out and joins in the celebration of Captain Picard day.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation // S04E13: Devil's Due

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It's June 16th! Y'all Know What Time It Is

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My greatest artistic masterpiece yet…

Bonus: he found Reddit

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Apparently, in the EU canon, Q's favorite food is "freahly-baked neutronium," aka a hypothetical exotic matter found in the cores of neutron stars, the second-densest object in the universe besides black holes.

(Does he just absorb it? Bite into the star it like an apple? Or does he do the cosmic horror equivalent of letting an M&M melt in your mouth to get the peanut out before biting it?)

(Also, he's eaten Picard's badge, and once drank an ocean of exotic water to get "drunk.")

It's such a random one-off joke, but it also sells how utterly alien and terrifying Q is under the silly judge's robes and starfleet uniforms.

Think about it.

Q has created and destroyed entire populations, planets, cosmological constants, timelines, pocket universes, etc. for fun and to "teach" the protagonists a lesson. That is horrifying, but at least humans can faintly grasp his (alleged) intention to teach us lessons.

But how many lifeforms, planets, cosmological bodies etc. has Q destroyed simply because he was hungry and wanted a snack? Or bored and wanted new sensory input? Or popped like bubbles against his cosmic body by accident and not thought twice about?

It's not even about deliberate cruelty at that scale (although Q can be cruel). The USS Enterprise are really, really lucky that Q likes them enough to not crush or eat them, even by accident. Q underneath the silly trickster guise is a bored, hungry Galactus that took juuust enough interest in its food to spare them and play with them for a bit.

Absolutely exactly! I am still debating with myself on just how aware Picard is that he is so lucky that Q likes and in his own way cares about Picard. Because Picard being Qs 'Favorite', especially Qs favorite 'toy' (although I think toy is a bit of the wrong word ehre because he does seem to view and treat Picard in a sentient way although I am pretty sure that Q does not treat everyone as a sentient being even if they are) does have such a nightmare fuel. I like to think that Q used to be a lot more cruel and that there are reasons that one Q in Deja Q complained about having to apologize each time he comes across a civilization because Q messed with them previously.

And Q doing stuff like this would explain Guinans hostility and general reaction to when she sees Q and how she treats Q so perfectly. I think the only reason she would not tell Picard about this is because after a certain piont Picard would have trouble believing her and Picard already has so much to deal with that letting him know that the godlike entity who has a strange obsession with him eats and plays with countless civilization out of boredom and for fun and that Q is the cause of quite a few star systems now being incomplete or no longer existing at all.

I also really love anything that makes the whole Q warning Picard of the horrors of the universe because Q should know because Q is one of the horrors that reside and torment this universe.

But I do think that there such a non-cruel cruelty of sorts that can be seen when he basically rolls his eyes and says how 'you people are always suffering and dying'. Meaning that some of Qs actions towards 'lesser* beings is like a human towards ants or even amoeba likely depending on how Q feels about it.

I think at least in TNG it is shown that Q has a bit of a changed attitude after Deja Q, especially towards Picard. So maybe humans are kind of special to Q because he himself has been a human and humans are his species to judge. But I think it would have been very interesting if Picard had seen what happens to those Q does not care/does not like/thinks of less than insects. Sort of in a 'if this is how you treat your 'friends' I would hate to be your enemy' kind of way just that in this case it is not being Qs enemy but just being so far down Qs list that your life does not matter at all to this strange trickster.

Q being a sort of bored Galactus figure that just played with the Enterprise in the way a cat plays with food is just such an interesting scenario. Because it would give Humanity being on Trial a whole new meaning. Because I do not think we ever seen another Q eat. I am not familiar with EU canon so maybe there are Qs eating but it seems to something only Q does. Which means Q does not need to do it but it is just something he does. I mean who has never eaten anything just out of boredom? The Trials against whatever species he decides to be the mouse to his cat could be how he kind of justifies it to the other Qs. Because hey, he is only getting rid of civilizations/entire species who 'deserve' it anyway. Because that would kidn of explain why Humanity but none of the other way more openly malicious species of Star Trek are on Trial because Humanity with its contradictions and chaos is way more to Qs..appetite.

I would simply love for Picard to find this out. Although I like to think that by the end of TNG the Trial has gotten another meaning because it is only about Picard and teaching Picard the endless possibilities of existence. Also I am not sure if you are aware of this but there is an official interview with Ron Moore where he states that the reason Q works so well with Picard is because Q, in a rather strange way, is in love with Picard. And that although Q would never admit it out loud, Qs goal is for Picard to become a Q. Which would why the Trial is no longer about Humanity itself but about teaching Picard because Q doe snot really want to redo the mistakes he made with Riker. Q knows that he cannot tempt Picard with power and making wishes come true but he can trie to slowly but surely ease Picard into opening up his mind to the ... possiblities existence (Q) has to offer.

I do also love the scenario, where Q being a trickster is mostly or just part of a disguise of sorts and that Q in the eyes of humans and maybe even other Qs (Guinan did say there are decent ones) Q is actually quite messed up underneath it.

Can you imagine Picard at one point agreeing to become a Q only to realize and find out that he is stuck with one of the most dangerous beings in the universe that has commoties mass murder on the large scale just because Q was bored and decides to eat and drink his hunger away sometimes.

Also I used to have quite a long conversation with another qcard fan a few years back about the sceneario of Q wanting to merge with Picard. 'eating' Picard in a way that is not really vore but a consumption of Picards entire being so the two of them can be one.

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Chat is this real

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I actually do find this quote with the bloody nose rather interesting, because of what the Borg are going to do. Because even if you take pure canon I simply cannot see Q enjoying what they ended up doing and I always hc that the debt Q talked about in Qpid is Locutus. Because in the compliation of Q stories I own and I think even in Voy it is rather clear that Q ends up hating the Borg.

And even though Q is not exactly the most caring and moral character I really doubt that after having been a human himself that he enjoyed or even liked the sight of the massacre done by the Borg, especially with Picard being forced to be the face of it all.

Which makes me wonder why Humanity is on Trial and not other species like the Borg? I guess because the Borg cannot really help themselves because they were made to do this? Like you wouldn't put a parasite on Trial for being a parasite?

I can absolutely see other Qs making Q watch it all and taunting him about the 'bloody nose' comment as Picard gets assimilated.

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qcard forbidden love but not because of any strange rules from the Continuum but because in most timelines any close relationship let alone a romantic one is cause for disaster.

Like this relationship is going to affect the universe in such a way and is in some timelines such a mess that the chaos that ensures from it will be immeasurable.

Which only makes Q want that relationship even more because one on hand he can see that their future arguments will cause him to get hurt in quite the dangerous (for others and the stability of the universe) way but also the timelines stretch into infinity which means he will have Picard forever.

Meanwhile the Continuum is just trying to do damage control.

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Q Continuum: Q, what do you call the last 30 years of chasing, adoring and wooing Jean-Luc Picard and getting nowhere with him?

Self-torture?

The definition of insanity?

Q: A work in progress.