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However, the pacing feels slow compared to modern TV and Trek.
That's part of why I really enjoy The Animated Series. Because they're all essentially TOS scripts/ideas, but they're condensed down to 24mins and everything goes by lickety-split.Some of the really average episodes cut stand to lose a few minutes, though.
Was there a reason for the rift between Q and Guinan? He's disliked by a good many people, but it looks like the animosity between these two goes back a ways. (They're both omniscient, so I guess it probably does.)
Also, when 2024-Guinan met Q, she didn't recognize him since at that point in history, their paths hadn't crossed yet. She didn't seem to hold any personal animosity towards the Q when we saw her in present day, so whatever reason she has to hate this specific Q hadn't happened yet in the timeline and they didn't go into it either so we'll never know. (Which I'm more than fine with.)Season 2 of Picard fleshed it out a bit more without going into too much detail. There was a long cold war between their factions, which ended in an uneasy truce. No details as to the actual war, if it ever switched from cold to hot, etc.
Forgot to answer, sorry. That's a nice interpretation, I think I'll adopt it. Thanks.The Q in general are a very hands-off, passive, god-species. The Continuum itself is portrayed as a place of placid calm where nothing happens and everyone just kind of is. The only Qs we ever encounter that are actively meddling in the mortal realm are *our* Q. He's a statistical outlier because he's so bored that he goes around playing pranks with lesser species to sate his curiosity/boredom. An act that got him excommunicated at one time. Putting humanity on trial was also something he only ever did with Picard. His relationship with Janeway was much more personal and cordial. Sisko was so close-minded and over-his-shit that Q never showed up to bother him again because he was boring. And the USS Cerritos crew are on a level with him where they can tell him to fuckoff without repercussion.
So the way I always read things was:
1) The "Trial" of humanity was just bullshit dramatic pretense to mess with Picard specifically because Q has a big ole crush on him and loved watching him squirm.
2) If the "Trial" of humanity was indeed real, it wasn't just about "you've gone out too far into space, it's time to get your driver's permit" kind of deal. Like you point out, there's plenty of prolific species in the galaxy that don't get Q interactions. I think it's more about testing a species that they see potential in them evolving to a next phase of existence. IIRC Q even mentions it at one point that humanity could someday rival the Q. We know species like the Borg are an evolutionary dead end and that the Q have no real worry about them becoming too powerful so long as nothing interrupts their natural paths so no need to really check in on them in the same way, despite at first glance seeming to be very powerful
What's weird is it feels like Star Trek lies dormant for decades but if you count the movies it never goes away for more than a few years. I think the longest gap is between The Animated Series and The Motion Picture, five years. I fully expect NuTrek to burn out in the next few years but they'll probably just need to let the field lie fallow for a while before spinning back up.(one of those being nuTrek - I need to give DISCO another chance. I'm sure I'll like it more, now that it isn't carrying the burden of saving Trek from going to sleep again for two decades).
I think the dormancy is more about cultural cache. Not a comment on the actual quality of either series but I feel like things were winding down in the late Voyager and Enterprise eras after a three long-running series in one decade and they weren't really series talked about as much (to me, anyway). The new Trek movie was a definite hit but it is primarily a TV franchise. The fact that there are... what, FIVE concurrent Trek series currently kind of puts it at its most flourishing to date.What's weird is it feels like Star Trek lies dormant for decades but if you count the movies it never goes away for more than a few years. I think the longest gap is between The Animated Series and The Motion Picture, five years. I fully expect NuTrek to burn out in the next few years but they'll probably just need to let the field lie fallow for a while before spinning back up.
In nuTrek, what we've seen of Section 31 so far is:I just hope it doesn’t go the “Section 31 is good, actually”route, given how heinous they’ve been.
hehStar Trek Deep State Nine