Did someone just ask me what *right* I have to complain about being bored? Someone who's sworn to uphold Federation ideals like, I dunno, free speech and tolerance for other species? I haven't been by to see you in five of your measly mortal little years and the best I get is "Q, get off my Livejournal system?" I suppose I *could* go to your ship instead...
As for helping the universe... suuuuuure, because *you* go around using your great technologies to uplift poor benighted lesser species out of the gutter of their pre-warp misery all the time. Oh, wait, there's this thing called the Prime Directive, so no, you don't. Did it ever enter your puny human brain that we Q have a similar directive in place? That we choose who we help very carefully? And that if we went around willy-nilly using our powers to be good and benevolent and nifty all the time, everyone would end up worshiping us, and then they'd start killing each other over whether or not we really *meant* it when we said they shouldn't eat the fish on their planet? So, if we actually do help someone out, generally, they won't know it?
I'd like you to consider that you, personally, have gotten involved in so many temporal anomalies even I don't feel like counting them all. Poor boring Nerys has been involved in three or four. Kathy, pff! Her whole life is a temporal anomaly. Only three crews in your precious Federation (okay, technically Nerys is not Federation, but Feddies were involved in the temp anomalies she was)... multiply that by the number of crews there are out there, and then ask yourself: why is your timeline stable?
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What *right*?
Date: 2003-03-19 05:32 am (UTC)As for helping the universe... suuuuuure, because *you* go around using your great technologies to uplift poor benighted lesser species out of the gutter of their pre-warp misery all the time. Oh, wait, there's this thing called the Prime Directive, so no, you don't. Did it ever enter your puny human brain that we Q have a similar directive in place? That we choose who we help very carefully? And that if we went around willy-nilly using our powers to be good and benevolent and nifty all the time, everyone would end up worshiping us, and then they'd start killing each other over whether or not we really *meant* it when we said they shouldn't eat the fish on their planet? So, if we actually do help someone out, generally, they won't know it?
I'd like you to consider that you, personally, have gotten involved in so many temporal anomalies even I don't feel like counting them all. Poor boring Nerys has been involved in three or four. Kathy, pff! Her whole life is a temporal anomaly. Only three crews in your precious Federation (okay, technically Nerys is not Federation, but Feddies were involved in the temp anomalies she was)... multiply that by the number of crews there are out there, and then ask yourself: why is your timeline stable?
Food for thought.