Imagine Deadpool giving Q an existential crisis after he explains to Q that he’s in a fictional universe, then all the things Q would do knowing nothing he does really matters since it’s all fictional anyway.
They technically already can, they’re just so depressed and bored they won’t, the trek universe we know could be Q’s personal creation so he had someone to talk to.
I think knowing there’s some limitation to what they can do would spark the fire back up tho, curiosity would have to get the better of them.
Edit: I have a theory that the reason Q is obsessed with Piccard is because he’s upset about his friend Q wanting to not exist anymore and the guilt Q felt about Q being locked in that asteroid, Q found and obsessed over Piccard to alleviate some of the feelings he had, like the trial is Q lashing out at Q, then I think after time he grew to enjoy someone standing up to him and kinda becoming a good friend (untill he met Janeway of course, Q’s true human friend).
Q’s just a sad person dealing with the loss of his friend, who has been left alone to deal with it, untill he finds a lost dog to befriend.
Now you have my attention.
Imagine Deadpool giving Q an existential crisis after he explains to Q that he’s in a fictional universe, then all the things Q would do knowing nothing he does really matters since it’s all fictional anyway.
But could Q (and the Continuum as a whole) then take that knowledge and usurp power over “reality”… reshape it at will?
They technically already can, they’re just so depressed and bored they won’t, the trek universe we know could be Q’s personal creation so he had someone to talk to.
I think knowing there’s some limitation to what they can do would spark the fire back up tho, curiosity would have to get the better of them.
Edit: I have a theory that the reason Q is obsessed with Piccard is because he’s upset about his friend Q wanting to not exist anymore and the guilt Q felt about Q being locked in that asteroid, Q found and obsessed over Piccard to alleviate some of the feelings he had, like the trial is Q lashing out at Q, then I think after time he grew to enjoy someone standing up to him and kinda becoming a good friend (untill he met Janeway of course, Q’s true human friend).
Q’s just a sad person dealing with the loss of his friend, who has been left alone to deal with it, untill he finds a lost dog to befriend.