Star Trek: The Original Series and The Next Generation
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I think what made them particularly scary was that they had already killed most of Kirk's family off screen.
These androids are far more advanced than Data. The man who built them was far smarter than Dr. Noonian Soong:
It’s almost as if the ancients were far more intelligent, knowledgeable and powerful than the next generations. The Original Series scientists had no trouble building realistic androids with emotions and who could fall in love.
I’ve been avoiding watching Star Trek: Picard because I’m afraid it will undue all the awesomeness of the Next Generation, like killing off Q.
I edited my post above to erase that and write something else more informative.
You seriously need to watch Season 3 of Picard. Just season 3. Seasons 1 and 2 can be surmised below:
S1: Star Fleet had used syntenic androids to work in their shipyard at Mars. The shipyard was making a massive fleet to rescue the Romulan worlds from the supernova. Romulans used this as an opportunity to hack the synths into killing the human workers and blow up the shipyards and set Mars on fire. Federation goes all post-9/11 and bans Synths. Picard resigns from Starfleet and goes home to the vineyard. The Doctor that wanted to disassemble Data finds a way to make more androids by making twins of each on this remote planet. Sooyng's elder son is there, Picard and his new crew of misfits (including 7 of 9) shows up and are followed by the Romulan's that want to kill all Synthetic life. Riker shows up with a federation fleet and Picard convinces the synthetics to not summon this giant robot tentacle monster form beyond the galaxy by dying for them. They put Picard into a synthetic body.
S2: Picard has rejoined Starfleet and is summoned to a weird signal coming from an anomaly that is calling for him specifically. Borg show up and start to take over the fleet, and Picard sets the ship to self destruct. Suddenly he is in an alternate timeline version of his house. Its not the Mirrorverse, but its pretty close. Q shows up and talks about the path to forgiveness, and leave Picard and his crew there in that timeline. They assemble together and kidnap a borg queen. They use the Queen to find where Q changed the past and go back to it, which is pretty much modern day. There Sooyng ancestor is trying to artificially create human life, Picard's ancestor is set to go on a mission to the moons of Saturn or Jupiter where she is destined to discover a new lifeform that will change humanity's future to the one we know and love. Q and Sooyng are trying to stop it, as Q is losing his powers, he needs Sooyng wealth and influence to stop the mission. However Picard is being guided by one of those people from TOS that make sure that history unfolds as it should. A young Guinan shows up and helps Picard. Meanwhile one of Picard's crew is assimilated by the Queen in a sort of symbiotic way where they share the same body. They have to chase her down, but she helps Sooyng stop them and sends some borgaified special forces to assault Picard's hiding place at the then abandoned French Villa. Picard gets run over by Sooyng in a Tesla, and has a mental conversation with his Dad, reveals that Picard let his mentally disturbed mother out of her locked room and she hung herself. They stop the borg and the queen makes a deal with her host to only assimilate those that wish to join or those that they can help medically. They get the mission launched successfully, and Picard hides the key where he will find it as a boy. Q shows up and tells Picard that he wanted Picard to forgive himself for letting his mother out, and that way Q could leave him knowing that Picard won't be alone like Q is. Picard gives him a hug and Q snaps sending the party back to fleet with the Borg. Picard realizes its the new borg queen, and lets her take control of the fleet and they use it to stop this massive spacial anomaly from destroying a massive amount of space as a new wormhole opens up. Back int he past Waely crusher shows up and recruits the artificial human to join his team as he is one of the supervisors to the people that make sure that the timeline unfolds correctly.
S2: Picard has rejoined Starfleet and is summoned to a weird signal coming from an anomaly that is calling for him specifically. Borg show up and start to take over the fleet, and Picard sets the ship to self destruct. Suddenly he is in an alternate timeline version of his house. Its not the Mirrorverse, but its pretty close. Q shows up and talks about the path to forgiveness, and leave Picard and his crew there in that timeline. They assemble together and kidnap a borg queen. They use the Queen to find where Q changed the past and go back to it, which is pretty much modern day. There Sooyng ancestor is trying to artificially create human life, Picard's ancestor is set to go on a mission to the moons of Saturn or Jupiter where she is destined to discover a new lifeform that will change humanity's future to the one we know and love. Q and Sooyng are trying to stop it, as Q is losing his powers, he needs Sooyng wealth and influence to stop the mission. However Picard is being guided by one of those people from TOS that make sure that history unfolds as it should. A young Guinan shows up and helps Picard. Meanwhile one of Picard's crew is assimilated by the Queen in a sort of symbiotic way where they share the same body. They have to chase her down, but she helps Sooyng stop them and sends some borgaified special forces to assault Picard's hiding place at the then abandoned French Villa. Picard gets run over by Sooyng in a Tesla, and has a mental conversation with his Dad, reveals that Picard let his mentally disturbed mother out of her locked room and she hung herself. They stop the borg and the queen makes a deal with her host to only assimilate those that wish to join or those that they can help medically. They get the mission launched successfully, and Picard hides the key where he will find it as a boy. Q shows up and tells Picard that he wanted Picard to forgive himself for letting his mother out, and that way Q could leave him knowing that Picard won't be alone like Q is. Picard gives him a hug and Q snaps sending the party back to fleet with the Borg. Picard realizes its the new borg queen, and lets her take control of the fleet and they use it to stop this massive spacial anomaly from destroying a massive amount of space as a new wormhole opens up. Back int he past Waely crusher shows up and recruits the artificial human to join his team as he is one of the supervisors to the people that make sure that the timeline unfolds correctly.
Season 3 is an epic season and does finally give the TNG crew the epic send off that they didn't get after Nemesis. You owe it to yourself to watch season 3 if you are a TNG fan.
Nope. They set it to degrade over the next few decades to match what would have been his natural lifespan.
Why is Q losing his powers when they were given to him by the infinite Q continuum?
Why would Q be dead after using the last of his powers to snap Picard and his crew to where they wanted to go?
It was established in the Next Generation that Q is immortal and omnipotent. His powers are all or nothing; the Q continuum gives them to him in full or can take them all away. So how can they fade unless the Q continuum takes them away?
The Q are the gods of the Star Trek Universe, the top of the hierarchy of beings.
Why would Q be dead after using the last of his powers to snap Picard and his crew to where they wanted to go?
It was established in the Next Generation that Q is immortal and omnipotent. His powers are all or nothing; the Q continuum gives them to him in full or can take them all away. So how can they fade unless the Q continuum takes them away?
The Q are the gods of the Star Trek Universe, the top of the hierarchy of beings.
Given past precedent where the Continuum was actively at war with itself, I see no reason that a member of the Q *couldn't* get sick and die, but any explanation would be beyond our understanding. Best just to accept the apparent discrepancy and go with the story.
(To say nothing of the already-established fact that Q's not exactly a reliable narrator)
(To say nothing of the already-established fact that Q's not exactly a reliable narrator)
Let's not forget that there was an episode of Voyager where the entire premise of it was that one of the Q (not played by John De Lancie) wanted to die, and our familiar Q (the John De Lancie one) refused to let him kill himself because the Continuum wouldn't allow it.
Why would they set a synthetic body to degrade?
Why not just make it last forever?
So Q could still be alive, or the Continuum could bring him back.
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