Okay. Trelane. Got me there. Though how you know he was responsible for half a dozen temporal anomalies I don't know, all he did to your predecessor was put him on trial for breaking his focusing device and refusing to play with him (which is BAD, mind you, I don't tolerate such behavior, but it hardly involved a temporal anomaly.) And I cleaned those up anyway.
However, the vast majority of temporal anomalies your species has become involved with have had nothing to do with *any* Q, of any age. We clean up our own messes. You... well, you try, but you don't have the big picture.
I mean, let's get real. Kirk: went back in time to interfere with Gary Seven (who was a little snot and could have used more interference, if you ask me), went back in time to accidentally kidnap a pilot, went back in time to rescue *Whales*, went back in time because his doctor was on drugs, got involved with an alien species whose fun pastime it was to escape impending supernova by going to the past. You: got caught in a time loop, found Data's head in the 19th century, got frozen in the moment of a warp core breach, went back in time to stop the Borg from taking over your planet, and you know what, I'm already bored cataloguing it. Let's just point out that of the many temporal anomalies you personally have encountered, only two were caused by me, and in one I took great care, as I believe I pointed out, to make sure that the only aspect of the timeline you could make a difference to was your own life. And the other one was a test, and you passed it. Yay for you. I'm having second thoughts about that grade, though.
Don't even ask me about the Temporal Cold War. Humans and their enemy du jour are going to *deliberately* attempt to royally screw things up, are in fact doing so right at the moment back in the 22nd century, and you know what? You're all still here.
My point being. You've known me for thirteen of your years? And in all that time we have spent, I believe, a total of less than two weeks in each other's company. Counting that really horrible, horrible day I try to forget. I am billions of your years old, and on the basis of two weeks, you think you know me? It is to laugh.
Admittedly, no, I am not a font of benevolence. The Continuum found out the hard way that it is very, very bad to do nice things for people unless you're willing to do them all the time. You turn around for fifty years and when you come back they're having a holy war over a casual remark you made about bears being tasty. I'm selfish, and I do what I like. (Well, used to. I don't *like* babysitting, and I'm not just talking about my son now. Babysitting supposedly adult Q is even worse.) I have, in fact, done things far more horrible than you can easily imagine, long before you and I met, for fairly little reason by your standards. I have also done things you in your self-righteousness would deem horrible, lacking the bigger picture to know how many lives I was saving or how much evolutionary turmoil I was shortcutting.
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branchandroot
Re: What *right*?
Date: 2003-03-19 10:06 am (UTC)However, the vast majority of temporal anomalies your species has become involved with have had nothing to do with *any* Q, of any age. We clean up our own messes. You... well, you try, but you don't have the big picture.
I mean, let's get real. Kirk: went back in time to interfere with Gary Seven (who was a little snot and could have used more interference, if you ask me), went back in time to accidentally kidnap a pilot, went back in time to rescue *Whales*, went back in time because his doctor was on drugs, got involved with an alien species whose fun pastime it was to escape impending supernova by going to the past. You: got caught in a time loop, found Data's head in the 19th century, got frozen in the moment of a warp core breach, went back in time to stop the Borg from taking over your planet, and you know what, I'm already bored cataloguing it. Let's just point out that of the many temporal anomalies you personally have encountered, only two were caused by me, and in one I took great care, as I believe I pointed out, to make sure that the only aspect of the timeline you could make a difference to was your own life. And the other one was a test, and you passed it. Yay for you. I'm having second thoughts about that grade, though.
Don't even ask me about the Temporal Cold War. Humans and their enemy du jour are going to *deliberately* attempt to royally screw things up, are in fact doing so right at the moment back in the 22nd century, and you know what? You're all still here.
My point being. You've known me for thirteen of your years? And in all that time we have spent, I believe, a total of less than two weeks in each other's company. Counting that really horrible, horrible day I try to forget. I am billions of your years old, and on the basis of two weeks, you think you know me? It is to laugh.
Admittedly, no, I am not a font of benevolence. The Continuum found out the hard way that it is very, very bad to do nice things for people unless you're willing to do them all the time. You turn around for fifty years and when you come back they're having a holy war over a casual remark you made about bears being tasty. I'm selfish, and I do what I like. (Well, used to. I don't *like* babysitting, and I'm not just talking about my son now. Babysitting supposedly adult Q is even worse.) I have, in fact, done things far more horrible than you can easily imagine, long before you and I met, for fairly little reason by your standards. I have also done things you in your self-righteousness would deem horrible, lacking the bigger picture to know how many lives I was saving or how much evolutionary turmoil I was shortcutting.