Yeah, he’s chaotic, but introducing Picard to the Borg before the Borg showed up and steamrolled them was a massive gift.
Even the earlier trial of humanity and temptation of Riker served to strengthen their resolve and principles so they didn’t go all Sisko everywhere when the Borg arrived.
I hope Picard and the federation eventually looked back on Q as the gift that he was.
It was always a mixed blessing. For instance, with the Borg, while it did forewarn them, it also brought them into contact much earlier than they would have naturally.
The Borg were only 2 years away from a star base at Enterprise’s maximum warp. We know they can go faster, and that they used warp conduits.
We can probably say within 2-5 years the Borg would have found almost all Alpha quadrant major powers, and likely would have overwhelmed at least some of them.
Voyager established Borg presence in the Alpha quadrant decades before Q who, at least, and Enterprise had them on Earth centuries ago.
Wasn’t the start of that episode the enterprise trying to ascertain why some outlying colonies had gone dark? The borg were just studying the federation at that point; if they’d had more time they could have become even more dangerous
My head canon is that it only seemed chaotic to us, as we do not have an awareness that can perceive anything but the present, or a few dimensions. Q has perception we do not. And Q didn’t really try very hard to explain his actions to us.
He could still be an asshole, but we don’t really have the reference point to make an informed decision on that.
Q pretty much only helped humanity.
Yeah, he’s chaotic, but introducing Picard to the Borg before the Borg showed up and steamrolled them was a massive gift.
Even the earlier trial of humanity and temptation of Riker served to strengthen their resolve and principles so they didn’t go all Sisko everywhere when the Borg arrived.
I hope Picard and the federation eventually looked back on Q as the gift that he was.
It was always a mixed blessing. For instance, with the Borg, while it did forewarn them, it also brought them into contact much earlier than they would have naturally.
The Borg were only 2 years away from a star base at Enterprise’s maximum warp. We know they can go faster, and that they used warp conduits.
We can probably say within 2-5 years the Borg would have found almost all Alpha quadrant major powers, and likely would have overwhelmed at least some of them.
Voyager established Borg presence in the Alpha quadrant decades before Q who, at least, and Enterprise had them on Earth centuries ago.
That last one is the result of First Contact time shenanigans.
I have not watched that movie for a long time, and I was very sick when I saw it.
I should watch it again?
the episode in enterprise series also gave a prelude, as the reason why the borg came in the first place tng neutral zone episode.
plus they recieved a signal in the delta quadrant to investigate the alpha quadrant, they were coming regardless.
Wasn’t the start of that episode the enterprise trying to ascertain why some outlying colonies had gone dark? The borg were just studying the federation at that point; if they’d had more time they could have become even more dangerous
My head canon is that it only seemed chaotic to us, as we do not have an awareness that can perceive anything but the present, or a few dimensions. Q has perception we do not. And Q didn’t really try very hard to explain his actions to us.
He could still be an asshole, but we don’t really have the reference point to make an informed decision on that.