True Q

[mothwing]

I ALWAYS loved Star Trek. When I was six, I first watched the series, TNG and TOS, and I have loved it ever since, have seen nearly every series, and every episode of every series apart from that terrible new one at least three times. Star Trek was what first made me love astrophysics. Star Trek was among the reasons why I befriended one of my oldest friends - we used to watch it secretly when my Mum wasn't home.

But somehow... Some of these are too silly to bear. 

Meet: the True Q.

Do you remember her? Short overview of the plot: the Enterprise has to put up with an intern from Starfleet Academy, Amanda Rogers. She starts to display amazing powers, for example she manages to counteract the an accidental meltdown of the warpcore. Also, Q appears and tells the crew that Amanda is a Q. Shock, horror, sensation. They also find out that the storm who has killed Amanda's parents (Tragic Past Alert) was probably caused by Qs. This is really lame, isn't it? And... just look at her: 



That terrible pink garment. Those horrible doe-eyes. That "Oh my god, I just want to be like everyone else!!! My soopa powaz^TM will probably keep my from enrolling in the Academy!! Oh, what to do!" - attitude. And the name! Amanda! What a dead give-away. And she has BLONDE hair, even though her parents had brown and black eyes. Terrible. And she's been studying what, bio-regeneration? And then tries to join up? Why?? And why on earth does she want to get rid of her supa powaz^TM? There just does not seem any reason at all. Onmipoetent and Omniscient and all that. And pink. Must be so terrible. 
And there are all the catch phrases that are the markings a really, really lame plot:

"I just want to be like everyone else."
"Ooooh, it must be so terrible to be able to do everything I want. Oh, noes!" 
"I am not ready!"
"With great powers comes great responsibility."

Seriously, next time someone says that in any context in any series, I am going to shoot them. The worst thing is that she has a heartfelt talk with Beverly Crusher. I guess even she has not deserved such a fate. 

Luckily, Q is a Sue spotter. He just realises that she is too much of a Sue in a human environment to bear, so he wants to remove her and take her far, far away, to the land of the rarely used plot devices. so she can become a true Sue.

The horror. 

Uhm, yeah. Just avoiding having to clean the kitchen. Once again. I've tidied it this morning, but in the meantime, my grandma has done some cooking, and thus it needs cleaning again. Went in with white socks, came out with black socks. Ungood. My brother has wiped the cloor yesterday evening. I don't know what they DO in that kitchen. But it's hard for my grandma, because she can't really see well, so she does not realise if something spills. Sigh.

Comments

[lordhellebore]

Horrid! She looks like a Sue at first sight! I like Q, he'S dead on with her :)

And shame on you!!! You never told me you were a trekkie!

[luckyoldsun.livejournal.com]

I just watched a couple of episodes recently for the first time in a long time... including the "time-loop" one (the Enterprise blowing up at multiple angles... otherwise, not particularly interesting). The one where Worf has his spine broken was pretty good, though.

Yes, indeed... nerd alert. Nerd alert. And proud of it. :o)

[firenightingale.livejournal.com]

*sings*

"True Q, Mary Sue, knows not what she wants to do!"

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

*lol* I didn't know you were such a trekkie! I've quite some history myself, but not that much ;)

A blonde wearing pink? Yikes. And then with a tragic past and super powers? Get behind me!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't like how she had to floof her hands to use her power.

[mariebernadette.livejournal.com]

that was me

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I didn't? Hm, I guess if at all, I must have thought it was obvious. General trekkiness tends to feature strongly in dialogues at some point. The word "Heisenberg compensator" tends to drop. And wormhole. Hm, odd to think I never mentioned it.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Nerds are the BEST, seriously. :)

I liked that one, although when I first watched it I thought I had broken the tape; my friend had taped it for me and when the same stuff happened over and over again... well. Was interesting!

Ooh, did you watch DS9 as well? I really liked Worf in that series.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I remember that episode! I was mad because she ruined a perfectly good Q episode. I usually loved the ones he was in, but that one . . . ugh.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

LOL! Indeed.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

You do? Great! What did you watch? :)

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't like that floof, either. She eerily reminded me of her:

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

True, one more reason to hate her. Q is the best, honestly. I love all his interactions with Picard, it's so sad there are so few episodes with him.

Did you see the one, "Déjà Q", in which he becomes mortal? Priceless!

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

I watched the whole Enterprise series with Picard, he's my official childhood hero.
Have to admit, though, that I don't know right now what the abreviations TNG and TOS stand for...

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Those abbreviatons are a bit silly, really.
TNG - The Next Generation.
TOS - The Original Series.

Hm, I can't remember having a hero on the crew of the Enterprise, somehow, only the crew as a whole worked for me, although I always had a soft spot for Guinan and Q.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Q is definitively cool, loved it when he appeared.
I seriously adored Picard and always had a soft spot for Data.

[lordhellebore]

Data is made of awesome, literally :P