I Hope I've Been Entertaining You 

tjwparso sucks it big time, most of all this damn childish "beans" nonsense.

@@masterk6571 You have an issue with beans?

@@Alucia0 I think he's bean getting a little tired of it ;)

@@masterk6571 Oh no! A RU-vid video has an intro and an outro! Whatever will we do?! Oh the humanity!

@@Tumbleflop Well if the Kalemarane will hurry up and finish him off, we can get back on our way.

@@alfa-psi nazi grammer police oh no!

@@randomrazr ah ah ah, that's "Grammar Gestapo." Added alliterative appeal and all.

@@inkvixen3141 Real Grammar Nazi™ here. Please respect our trademark. Thank you very much. Also: alfa-psi is just being a smartass for no reason. If we were to persecute every incorrect abbreviation, we'd have to separate England from the respected populus. Oh wait, it seems that that has already happened... Grammatik macht frei!

It's a funny line but you know, despite not having money in the future I wonder how many sentient-being-hours of labor that shuttlecraft cost to manufacture. It doesn't seem that expensive but lots of high-tech systems, a miniature warp engine, small phaser and I think they come with a transporter pad too? Even with 24th century manufacturing techniques it could be the equivalent of lifetimes worth of labor.

@@martinruf8784 Populace*

Q: OH VERY GOOD WORF....EAT ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?

Picard: Not bad enough, dammit, not bad enough !! Worf: Die, horribly ! Picard: Better, make it so !

What a great back and forth! Great writing and acting.

The way Worf came up with that response quickly makes me think that he really doesn't like Q's immortality. Maybe he considers it dishonorable that Q never has to put his life on the line.

@@SmashPortal techinacally the Q are not immortal, as the Q were able to kill each other in the Q Civil War.

Even better. A star fleet *command* uniform.

..and with Captain's pips.. not Admiral's.. a God like being knows the best place in the Galaxy to stretch one's legs.

Q loves it like a pet project

@@HyperIonMake Q has worn every color uniform. He wore green in the Star Trek: Borg computer game where he posed as Dr. Thaddeus Quint on the USS Righteous.

He really didn't like the color of the clothes he had been given.

like the Marklards (sp?) in south park, lol

seems like it has something to do with how the continuum approaches existing in nonlinear time. that whole "I was even the scarecrow for a while" joke from the Quinn episode comes to mind - identity, & how it's distinguished between continuum members, seems a little wibbly wobbly.

Well, they are a continuum...

let me introduce Zathras :D and Zathras and 5 more :D

Sometimes I think they are all the same Q. Just at different points of time in the continuum.

It seems implied (at least after the writers started getting their footing) that whenever a Q manifests to look like a species for the first time, they just adopt the clothing of whomever they want to talk to, since they don't perceive things on the same level that we do. Like a 3-dimensional being not having any concept of 2-dimensional fashion, so they just mimic, and don't realize how it'll actually "look" until they have that 2D perspective.

@@delcox8165 I also love how this Q looks at his arms and hands, cause we know that a Q wouldn't be a human normally, so this appearance is all new to him. I find the whole Q and Q dialog hilarious.

Q: You'd be surprised how detrimental a poor choice of fashion can be. Take this uniform: it may be all the rage now, but in a very short time it can become tiresome, an affront to the eyes. Certain people might even think it's objectionable. And then... nothing but rags.

@@magnusdiridian wasnt that a certain Kardassian who said that, from ds9

they had all the time in the universe. the q who still had powers says he puts the threat on hold. they could discuss whatever they wanted for as long as they wanted.

But still, TNG >>>>> TOS

Some guy named Scotty tried to beam you up, put a stop to that.

C'mon! It's a perfectly good shuttle craft! I'm not really trying to save Q! . . . I'm not! I'm not! I'm not!

But wouldn't that be murder?

I always thought he never believed Q was actually mortal and thought Picard was falling for his prank.

1:39 love how he’s confused and intrigued by his finger appendages as if he has just discovered how natural hand gestures are for humans.

Riker knows he can't idly sit back and watch Q die, but Picard is certainly not going to admit it.

I could see why they would have questions for centuries if they're all named Q 😂😂 "Q is a major danger to the universe!!" *"which one??"*

@@FractalNinja They all know which Q. The harder part is figuring out the which is which when they aren't a danger to the universe.

they're so endlessly coy and roundabout with their true intentions. i mean just look at how long it took Q to get Q to admit to leaving the enterprise for selfless reasons. not to mention Q would never have to tell the continuum about it in the first place. no, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Q really was just Q's genuine friend

The fact that Q didn’t even realize that his sacrifice would possibly give him another shot at getting his powers back also shows how smart the other Q are. They wouldn’t have been fooled by Q doing it to get his powers back so that thought didn’t even cross his mind.

I hate that this comment made perfect sense.

It’s the dreadful color line that was able to sell it. Also how he was clearly bored and annoyed at the same time so effortlessly

What about Nicolas Cage? How do you think he'd do?

@@terminat1oh that would be interesting! I’d also like to see Morgan Freeman as Q

Imagine Jack Nicholson as Q

@@terminat1 Nicolas Cage has the wrong energy for Q.

It was also the number one show on TV for a while and had plenty of opportunity for guest actors. But yes, many people liked a good ST show, of course.

@@xBINARYGODx Not today.

@@jdbarr769 After TNG ended the franchise steadily lost its way to the point we are at now with the self important preachiness of modern politics. It's quit literally become the exact opposite of Gene Roddenberry's vision. Therefore modern trek is not Star Trek at all.

@@HereticDuo No it isn't Star Trek. Entertainment now has to have white man bad, poc are awesome, gay is better than straight, and stroink wahmen, before one idea of a story can be written. That's bonkers.

@@HereticDuo Yep, it all started to go downhill with DS9 and don't get me wrong, I liked DP9, it was my second-best Star Trek after TNG but it felt like it was losing a lot of the vision of what made Star Trek different and it's been downhill ever since where action is the focus over good storytelling which is where TNG shined. It's ironic but for me, many of the best TNG episodes didn't even have any action in them and many of which were supposed to be filler episodes, now it's just relentless action with special FX all over the place and very little story telling. Star Trek today is Star Trek in name only, but it might as well be called something else because the vision that made Star Trek great is gone and it's ironic how that vision started to change when Gene Roddenberry died, TNG went on after that because they kept that vision but the moment the TNG movies started, it all went downhill and the same for other Star Trek series.

"Do you consider us fools?" "Yes, but that is not why I am here"

Pitch perfect casting.

It's also fun to see Q kinda realize just how annoying he is normally when the shoe is on the other foot and he's the mortal being jerked around by a Q.

Tbf Q was helpful from the beginning, though mischievous at the same time. Qs may be judgmental, but they are constructive. Giving them a taste of the Borg was a Qs way of warning them what was to come.

I hated them, every one. And yeah I hated "Who Mourns for Adonais?" too.

I can't think of a single Q episode that did NOT disappoint, this was the worse.

@@Cryptonymicus "Who Mourns for Adonais" ? That puny TOS god ? Come on, the closest thing to a Q in TOS was "The Squire of Gothos".

I can't think of a single Q episode that did NOT disappoint, this was the worse. Wait, had forgoten about the one were Picard pretended to be Robin Hood, that was even more foolish and stupid than this Q, no surprise, hating to be human.

@@masterk6571 then you need to reassess your ability to think...........oh wait, that's a paradox never mind.......

Data laughing (in this episode) is my favorite moment in the entire series.

Well, it is a perfectly good shuttle.

Hard to humble when you're essentially God.

@@hamanu666 They ARE being humble.

The absolute absurdity of a human thinking that beings of higher power than they are act "egotistical" because they act their place.

It would’ve also been fun to see him on the Enterprise, and have the crew confirm our Qs claims that the continuum took him back - if only to confirm the fact that it wasn’t some dirty trick by Q. Think about it: they only have his word to go on.

if all Q have the same powers, then he must be higher in the hierarchy than our Q to get him 'demoted' like that. would have been interesting if that factor had come into that episode

I didn't mind having Suzie Plakson in that episode 😏

He was probably too expensive. LA Law was at its peak when this episode aired.

His character showed up again in the Peter David novel "Q-in-Law" which also gave us an amazing Q/Lwaxana crossover story that i wish we got as an actual episode.

Q just likes to do that to be dramatic.

@Brian Welch Personally I think that's true. However we also see Quinn and Amanda Palmer doing seemingly unnecessary gestures to "activate" their powers, which confuses the whole issue. Then they aren't even consistent with those.

@@fryfry377 maybe it has to do with what was previously stated like a involuntary tick. It can also be related to an individual gesture or a unique sense of style. What I'm trying to say is it's quite possible it has to do with each individual's way of being for example Commander Riker would simply wave his hand just like the Q that was made on Earth and she didn't know she was a Q.

@@seraphielprime5092 I agree. For sure they don't have a need for any physical gestures to activate their powers (especially from a body they didnt have/didnt exist until they wanted to communicate with a particular species). I would guess its for style since I dont see them having a "tic" since again the bodies are new.

Maybe Q snaps his fingers to appease his ego. It helps create a hard line of logic between his actions and the effect they have, and he always wants people to know he's messing with them. If he just stood perfectly still while Weird Shit happened it might take the primitive carbon monkeys too long to trace the change back to him.

That's the problem with Q. Too many Q-uestions and Quriosities.

TNG wanted some high priced talent for the episode, but had to forget about Corbin because he's only high priced. 😉😉

Don't forget Psych.

Played it well, too

They fly now?!?!😂💀

Like most Star Trek writing, it’s only possible this one particular time and they’ll never mention the possibility ever again.

@@MichaelApproved That happens a lot with Star Trek, but not in this case. They do that plenty

@@MichaelApproved There are cargo transporters designed for bulk transport. They don't have the same safety levels of personnel transporters, but can be used in emergencies. Or to get a whole shuttle back.

And a personnel transporter, at that; a cargo transporter has more power, not to mention a larger _pattern buffer_ !

@@stars9084 in all the times I’ve seen the shuttle get in trouble, I’ve never seen the entire thing get beamed aboard. It’s always been just the people. Do you have any examples from TNG or have they done it in one of the other series?

He shows how scary he can be.

That huff that dismissed them like a dust bunny was one of my favorites!

And seriously, what happened to it? :)

"Shut up Dorn!"

this goes against my better judgement.🤣🤣🤣

It was always one of my favorite lines and reasons why you toe the line with him but never truly cross it.

Yes. If Billions of humans agreed with you the path to salvation would be broad and the road of destruction would be narrow.

If he was all powerful no one could take his power away or police his activities.

@@LordTalax Can an all powerful being take power away from another all powerful being? That's a bit like the question of whether God could make a rock no one could lift, including himself. I don't think it has a well-defined answer

omnipotent bean

@@radscorpion8 Logically impossible propositions are not "things." It is logically impossible for an omnipotent being to have a limitation in its power. Thus, God could not create a stone that He couldn't lift.

Q is essentially omnipotent. But Q is certainly not omniscient. He can be surprised, sometimes. Entertained. Even manipulated or outsmarted. It's probably the main reason he's fascinated by humans in general and by Picard in specific.

One Q is even obsessed with it. 😁

@randomguy8196 well if you're civ was the same for billions of years then one of the oldest of you oft themselves makes sense drama would kick in afterwards

@randomguy8196 Frankly the Q Civil War is an interesting question about an omnipotent eternal species having a mass existential crisis after one of them decides that eternity (and an eternity of monotony) ain't all it's cracked up to be, which does seem to be something that could happen. Also it continues Q's character arc from here. Here Q decides to behave himself, which Quinn found to be a disappointment as it was Quinn being a bit of an iconoclast himself that made Q the trickster god he was introduced as, only for this episode to put him in a box the continuum was comfortable with. Quinn's death made Q realize he lost his edge. Whether that damages the mystery of the omnipotent beings is a matter of perspective.

Well duh, otherwise they would go by 'A' 😅

I like how they all refer to themselves with the same title... But I like when the humans do it too: "Brother!" "Brotha!" Nicely done.... The only time I saw it go a little overboard was in B5 with: "Zathras" .... or was it ZATHras ???

Not necessarily. We love to experiment on fruit flies and amoeba.

@@Torquemadia I mean there are people who collect rocks. I would think a god-level being would be fascinated by any life form in a world filled with mostly desolate planets

Unless one considers 'our' Q as the runt of the litter. A bit like Venom is to the symbiote species.

@@TorquemadiaThere was a TNG episode where another god like entity did experiments with the Enterprise. Forgot the name, it was one of the earlier ones

@@swashbucklemchrue2323 You mean the living rock thing?

@Phelan you mean....what we used to *Bean?* Yeah Yeah!!! 🤣👌

@Phelan Lando got what he wanted. Luckily, so did Vir.

Does this mean Q is Magical Trevor?

Trevor approves

all the talk of beans makes me think that all Worf had to do to kill Q in this episode was eat a bunch of chili nd then get into a turbolift with him xD

"Nice legs...for a human."

Jennifer Hetrick, though I'd hardly call her Picard's girlfriend.

She probably got him the cameo then.

Would not call the Vash character, Picard’s girlfriend !! So give it a rest, fool !!

It seems like the continum as a whole took Qs powers away the other Q just strongly advocated for it

Problem is, both sides are thinking it, and so both sides are expecting (and ready for) it.

Nagilum was creepy. I'll give you that.

Thanks :) I did post some clips of 'Where Silence Has Lease' a while back: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vbkrO991y2Q.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IjiXfDO2PQI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--bxyw2k9OUA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QnIpZJSo00I.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-llWxqH75714.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QpHi46kGmoo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L9G2__VZuaU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zqtm3Flp-1w.html ... as for 'Relics', I'm re-watching the show (in order) so it might be while yet, keep an eye on the playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLJLrwliG1p4agVKG3DDgbANDefOOP_SB8 or turn on notifications for new uploads :)

@@tjwparso - ok, thanks, I'm still in catch up mode...lol

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