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Humanity has evolved so much by the 24th century that they have to make up contrived problems for the Enterprise to solve, otherwise the Enterprise crew might s
by baryphonic 6y ago
Humanity has evolved so much by the 24th century that they have to make up contrived problems for the Enterprise to solve, otherwise the Enterprise crew might spend all their time on Risa (well, okay, maybe just Riker). It's not even like Q forced them to aim the wave at an inhabited planet, they just did that by themselves.
Also, couldn't that have used this tech to send superweapons towards Borg space in the Delta Quadrant? Picard has no problem straight up murdering assimilatees in First Contact who are much less far gone than Locutus was in Best of Both Worlds, so I don't think there's much of an ethical issue at stake. Or they could have just used Data's adversarial image virus to wipe out the collective through Hugh.
- wcarss 6y agoAs far as Star Trek plot holes go, I've always felt it's a wonder that, upon encountering any seemingly impossible situation, as they often did, Picard didn't ever shout, "Q! Show yourself! We will not play this game for one instant longer!" And then Q, uninvolved but likely bored with whatever else he was doing, bullying some stardust or something, and omniscient enough to hear Picard shouting, would dutifully appear. He'd turn the whole impossible situation into an unfair but winnable game, gleefully taking credit for the whole thing, and having so much _fun_. I bet Picard could've pulled that about a million times!