Q

OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse today.

Prompt 336: What's the worst compliment you've ever received?

"Sometimes I forget you're not human."

I trust I don't have to explain why that is a truly awful excuse for a compliment.

Along the same lines, "Perhaps there's a residue of humanity in Q after all," "perhaps there's more humanity in you than I thought," "that's... almost human of you," and other comments of that ilk. Actually, those are worse. "Sometimes I forget you're not human" could theoretically be a compliment on my acting skills and the success of my mimicry of the human form, rather than actually trying to *compliment* me on sinking to the level of a pathetic short-lived mortal species, but the others were attempts at back-handed praise.

What is it with human starship captains and their love affair with their own species, anyway? Here's one that wasn't directed at *me*, but the circumstances made it absolutely appalling. This human captain's nonhuman best friend dies bravely to save the entire ship, and at his funeral, while delivering the eulogy, the captain chokes up, gets all sad and dramatic, and says, "Of all the souls I've encountered, his was the most... human." Come on! As if intelligence, loyalty, strength of will, or a willingness to die nobly for others' sake are solely human traits. I mean, when I saw that, I was glad the dead guy was too dead at the time to hear the comment. (He got better, later, but I'm not sure he ever found out what his friend said at his eulogy.)

But at least *he* was half human, though he didn't identify with it. Calling *me* humanlike is just insulting. And most of the people who use it to "compliment" me know I feel that way about it (and wouldn't react at all to me calling them Q-like... if I was going to do such a thing, which I never would, because none of them are remotely like a Q.)

Now that I think of it, Amanda got rather upset with me when I tried to compliment her on how much like a Q she was becoming. But that's hardly fair. She *is* a Q, and if she develops as she should, she *ought* to become more Q-like and less human-like.

Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG (with gratuitous TOS references)

OOC: Same story, two prompts, two communities. Crossposted from both theatrical_muse and realmof_themuse today.

theatrical_muse: Prompt 267: In medias res.
realmof_themuse: 2009.7.B.5: Put the gun down.

So here I was, at the center of the Continuum, in the middle of our loudest and most confrontational meeting ever, and my grandpa was standing across the aisle holding a gun on me.

Let me explain all the ways in which this scenario is screwed up beyond belief.

( Staring down the barrel of a situation that should have been impossible. )
Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek TNG and Voyager

OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse today.
Well, here I am again, after a hiatus of a year by your time or several thousand by mine, but who's counting?

As I look around this place, I realize I don't recognize any of you. Superb! Variety is the spice of life, especially when your life is as long and tedious as mine. Of course, most of you will prove not to be worth my time anyway, but perhaps I'll find a few of you worthy of having a conversation with.

But I suppose this means I need to introduce myself again... (sigh) Why can't you all just be as omniscient as I am, so I never have to do this again?

I am Q, of the Q Continuum. I'm immortal, mostly invulnerable, as nearly omnipotent as you're ever likely to meet... and usually bored out of my mind. This place provided some entertainment, once upon a time; I can only hope it can do so again.

( Impossible is not in my vocabulary. Okay, technically it is, since I know everything. )

Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek: TNG and VOY