Q Continuum Quotes

Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did...We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. Picard: When I realized the paradox. Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they’re here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?” He raised an index finger. “Or maybe they’re omnipotent beings who have grown bored with immortality, and they’re just tormenting us for their own twisted amusement? You know, like whenever Q would pop in from the continuum to fuck with Picard!

Suddenly, she saw herself once again, standing before a mirror, just as she had in the Q Continuum when her body had been collected from cosmic dust and made whole. Before her the outlines of a woman were visible, the contours of her body a rough approximation of Janeway’s own. But this woman gave off her own illumination, an almost blinding light. Janeway stared at her, not in the mirror, but as the mirror. All she had ever been, or would ever be, gazed silently at her, quietly demanding recognition. That

The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence….

Si l'on peut penser avec Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick que la tension entre des aspirations "universalisantes" (qui inscrivent l'homosexualité dans un continuum de pratiques sexuelles) et les aspirations "minorisantes" (qui considèrent au contraire les homosexuels comme un groupe distinct des autres) est effectivement constitutive de l'histoire du mouvement gay, et plus généralement de l'histoire de l'homosexualité au XXe siècle, on peut aussi penser que les notions auxquelles se référaient ces deux courants ("assimilation", "intégration", "indifférence" d'un côté, "monde gay", "minorité", "différence" de l'autre) n'ont jamais été très stables, ont voyagé d'un côté à l'autre et ont revêtu des significations multiples et parfois contradictoires dans des configurations culturelles différentes, un même discours pouvant avoir des significations opposées et des objectifs contraires à des moments différents de l'histoire ou d'un pays à l'autre. (p. 186)