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* AGoodOldFashionedPaintWatching: According to Q, this is SeriousBusiness on one planet. They even have a LargeHamAnnouncer for it.
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* AGoodOldFashionedPaintWatching: According to Q, this is SeriousBusiness on one planet.Sraticon IV. They even have a LargeHamAnnouncer for it.
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* AGoodOldFashionedPaintWatching: According to Q, this is SeriousBusiness on one planet. They even have a LargeHamAnnouncer for it.
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* SillyReasonForWar: The Q and the M. [[LampshadeHanging They have trouble finding a reason pointless enough to start one]].
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* SillyReasonForWar: The Q and the M. [[LampshadeHanging They have trouble finding a reason pointless enough to start one]].one]], until somebody shouts "[[YourMom Your mother!]]" and the war is on.
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* SkewedPriorities: How Q thinks about Picard's reaction to seeing him with a giant clamp on his mouth, courtesy of M.
--> Picard, for his part, took one look at my trussed-up mouth and promptly smiled. That figured. The universe collapsing around our ears, and he would find it funny that I had a large clamp across my mouth. His priorities were as out of sync as M's.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Picard and Data are apprehended and brought before M, she asks Q why he never asked about them. Picard claims that Q was simply trying to keep their presence hidden (which Q knows is bullshit), and M acts like it's convincing.
--> Picard, for his part, took one look at my trussed-up mouth and promptly smiled. That figured. The universe collapsing around our ears, and he would find it funny that I had a large clamp across my mouth. His priorities were as out of sync as M's.
* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Picard and Data are apprehended and brought before M, she asks Q why he never asked about them. Picard claims that Q was simply trying to keep their presence hidden (which Q knows is bullshit), and M acts like it's convincing.
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* BirdPoopGag: Happens to Q when he gets [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]].
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* FlippingTheBird: Q tries while he's turned into a statue, but fails.
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** Q himself has played this more than a few times as well.
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** Q himself has played this more than a few times as well.well, such as the time when he made sure that a skydiver with a faulty parachute landed in a haystack (after telling him that something about him just pissed Q off).
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* ApologeticAttacker: While our heroes are fighting their way through a chaotic train car, Data apologizes to everybody he hits. Q admits that it would be funny if not for the life-threatening danger.
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* CensorSuds: {{Invoked}} by [[spoiler:Melony]]. While otherwise an InnocentFanserviceGirl, she creates a dress out of sea foam when she finds [[spoiler:Q's son]].
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jerkasses have standards]] Q is Disgusted by the attack on Time Square that ends up taking Melony's life. [[spoiler: She gets better in the end]]
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jerkasses have standards]] Have Standards]] Q is Disgusted disgusted by the attack on Time Square that ends up taking Melony's life. [[spoiler: She gets better in the end]]
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* BadassBoast: Q's declaration that they'll have to do better than ending the universe to stop him.
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* BadassBoast: Q's declaration that they'll have to do better than ending the universe to stop him. [[spoiler: AND HE'S RIGHT!]]
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: When a dying Romulan starts begging to Q to save him and saying "Please," Q responds, "I don't think 'Please' is the magic word today; you'll have to try again. How about Swordfish? The Romulan promptly dies.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: When a dying Romulan starts begging to Q to save him and saying "Please," Q responds, "I don't think 'Please' is the magic word today; you'll have to try again. How about Swordfish? Swordfish?" The Romulan promptly dies.
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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: When our heroes are trapped in the house in the despair world.
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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: When our heroes are trapped in the house in the despair world. Q and his son escape; Picard and Data don't.
* WorthLivingFor: Q decides that his son is this, giving him what it takes to defy the End of Everything.
* WorthLivingFor: Q decides that his son is this, giving him what it takes to defy the End of Everything.
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* BurningWithAnger: M, when Data's angry rhetoric turns the crowd against her.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Both Q and Picard are shocked when [[TheStoic Data]] starts shouting with genuine rage.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class Z.
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* KangarooCourt: M puts Q through one, during which she makes him TheScapegoat for the End of the Universe.
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* DespairEventHorizon: As per the FiveStagesOfGrief metaphor that our heroes are trapped in, the DeathWorld after the merchant bazaar is a representation of this.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: At a Mardi Gras party, Q punishes several people who play a "red dot" prank on him by showing them the secrets of the universe. They promptly fall apart.
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* RousingSpeech: Picard gives one on the train, encouraging everyone to rise up and take control. As much as Q admits to it being a good speech, it is unfortunately directed to the most unresponsive audience ever and falls completely flat.
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* TheWallsAreClosingIn: When our heroes are trapped in the house in the despair world.
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* InevitableWaterfall: {{Lampshaded}} by the ever GenreSavvy Q, who mentions having seen enough B-movies to see it coming.
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* LargeHam: Data, of all people, when he and M start trying to outshout each other. See BoldInflation.
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* LargeHam: Data, of all people, when he and M start [[HamToHamCombat trying to outshout each other.other]]. See BoldInflation.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: When a dying Romulan starts begging to Q to save him and saying "Please," Q responds, "I don't think 'Please' is the magic word today; you'll have to try again. How about Swordfish? The Romulan promptly dies.
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Picard tries to talk AU!Locutus to death...on top of a train that's going to be incinerated while everyone aboard is in denial about it. It fails.
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* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Picard tries to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talk AU!Locutus to death...death]]...on top of a train that's going to be incinerated while everyone aboard is in denial about it. It fails.fails, leading to a TraintopBattle.
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->''"Know you that [[TitleDrop I, Q]], am the [[TricksterGod trickster]]. I, Q, am the lord of chaos. I, Q, [[DefiantToTheEnd defy you to the last]], and if you think you can stop me by [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending the universe]], then I'm here to tell you that [[BadassBoast you're going to have to do better than that]]!"''
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->''"Know you that
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* DeadpanSnarker: Q--endlessly. His narration is filled with wit, from the beginning:
--> ''"[[TitleDrop I, Q.]] My instinct is to start with me. It's a natural instinct, I suppose, since I was there at the beginning. [[CaptainObvious I've been around for as long as I can remember.]]"''
--> ''"[[TitleDrop I, Q.]] My instinct is to start with me. It's a natural instinct, I suppose, since I was there at the beginning. [[CaptainObvious I've been around for as long as I can remember.]]"''
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* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Jerkasses have standards]] Q is Disgusted by the attack on Time Square that ends up taking Melony's life. [[spoiler: She gets better in the end]]
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* ShoutOut: They take advantage of the fact that Wallace Shawn played Grand Nagus Zek to deliver a nice one to ''ThePrincessBride''.
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* ShoutOut: They take advantage of the fact that Wallace Shawn played Grand Nagus Zek to deliver a nice one to ''ThePrincessBride''.''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
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* PaintingTheMedium:
** Data and M, see BoldInflation above.
** When [[spoiler: the universe ends,]] the next several pages of the book are blank. The first indication that [[spoiler: Melony has changed her mind upon reading Q's manuscript]] is her chuckling written in the center of an otherwise blank page.
** Data and M, see BoldInflation above.
** When [[spoiler: the universe ends,]] the next several pages of the book are blank. The first indication that [[spoiler: Melony has changed her mind upon reading Q's manuscript]] is her chuckling written in the center of an otherwise blank page.
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* DivineConflict: The novel gives us the Q Continuum's counterpart the M (both sides being SufficientlyAdvancedAliens that screw with the universe for their own amusement, or so it would appear). Neither side has any particular reason for being at war with the other (the initial reason was, quote, "Because there's something about you that really pisses us off"), but apparently one of the M invoking YourMom was reason enough, even though nobody could figure out exactly whose mother had been insulted and nobody in the Q Continuum had a mother in the first place. And really, that's as much sense as the whole thing ever makes.
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''I, Q'' is a [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse standalone]] Franchise/StarTrek [[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse novel]] set mainly in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]] era. Published in 1999, ''I, Q'' was co-authored by Star Trek writer Creator/PeterDavid and Star Trek actor John de Lancie.
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''I, Q'' is a [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse standalone]] Franchise/StarTrek [[Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse novel]] set mainly in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]] era. Published in 1999, ''I, Q'' was co-authored by Star Trek writer Creator/PeterDavid and Star Trek Q's actor John de Lancie.
Creator/JohnDeLancie.
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->''Know you that [[TitleDrop I, Q]], am the [[TricksterGod trickster]]. I, Q, am the lord of chaos. I, Q, [[DefiantToTheEnd defy you to the last]], and if you think you can stop me by [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending the universe]], then I'm here to tell you that [[BadassBoast you're going to have to do better than that]]!''
''I, Q'' is a [[StarTrekExpandedUniverse standalone]] Franchise/StarTrek [[StarTrekNovelVerse novel]] set mainly in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]] era. Published in 1999, ''I, Q'' was co-authored by Star Trek writer Creator/PeterDavid and Star Trek actor John de Lancie.
''I, Q'' is a [[StarTrekExpandedUniverse standalone]] Franchise/StarTrek [[StarTrekNovelVerse novel]] set mainly in [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]] era. Published in 1999, ''I, Q'' was co-authored by Star Trek writer Creator/PeterDavid and Star Trek actor John de Lancie.
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->''"Know you that [[TitleDrop I, Q]], am the [[TricksterGod trickster]]. I, Q, am the lord of chaos. I, Q, [[DefiantToTheEnd defy you to the last]], and if you think you can stop me by [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending the universe]], then I'm here to tell you that [[BadassBoast you're going to have to do better than
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* YourMother: How the war between the Q and the M got started. More hilarious: none of the Q actually ''had'' a mother to insult.
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* MessageInABottle: Q sums up his experience and puts it in a bottle, [[spoiler: the one Melony found in the beginning.]]
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-->'''Q''': This must sound like a lot of technobabble to you. In layman's terms: ;''The shit had hit the fan''.
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-->'''Q''': This must sound like a lot of technobabble to you. In layman's terms: ;''The ''The shit had hit the fan''.
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-->'''Q''': This must sound like a lot of technobabble to you. In layman's terms: The shit had hit the fan.
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* {{Technobabble}}: When Q visits Q Continuum, which is in a state of utter chaos, he describes it in technobabble, then after his lengthy, jargon-ny description of what the heck's going on, he proceeds to [[LampshadeHanging hang the lampshade]]:
-->'''Q''': This must sound like a lot of technobabble to you. In layman's terms: The shit had hit the fan.
-->'''Q''': This must sound like a lot of technobabble to you. In layman's terms: The shit had hit the fan.
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* DisappearedDad / MissingMom: Q comments that the reason he finds raising q appealing is because he has no memory of any parents himself.
