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qcontinuum) wrote2008-02-05 11:57 am
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Tombstones?
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theatrical_muse from Feb. 28, 2004.
Tombstones.
Could there possibly be a more irrelevant question to an immortal entity?
Oh, I have encountered things that could destroy me, but firstly, I have no intention of ever encountering them again, and secondly, should I be unlucky enough to have a fatal run-in with one of them, it's awfully unlikely that there'd be anything left behind to memorialize, or anyone who'd bother to do it. The Q don't need pithy little epitaphs; we remember our dead well enough, on the few occasions where one of our number has died.
During the war, every time a Q was killed a star went supernova. I suppose that's more of a tombstone than any of us actually wanted.
In any case, I have given no thought whatsoever to what I'd want on a hypothetical tombstone, for the simple reason that I never intend to need one.
theatrical_muse from Feb. 28, 2004.Tombstones.
Could there possibly be a more irrelevant question to an immortal entity?
Oh, I have encountered things that could destroy me, but firstly, I have no intention of ever encountering them again, and secondly, should I be unlucky enough to have a fatal run-in with one of them, it's awfully unlikely that there'd be anything left behind to memorialize, or anyone who'd bother to do it. The Q don't need pithy little epitaphs; we remember our dead well enough, on the few occasions where one of our number has died.
During the war, every time a Q was killed a star went supernova. I suppose that's more of a tombstone than any of us actually wanted.
In any case, I have given no thought whatsoever to what I'd want on a hypothetical tombstone, for the simple reason that I never intend to need one.