Subj : Re: I BLAME BRAGA
To   : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager,alt.tv.star-trek.ds9
From : Mac Breck
Date : Mon Sep 26 2005 13:00:33

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.ds9

"ANIM8Rfsk" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote in message
news:BF5C0C7F.535D0%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net...
> in article 4336b1fb$0$11076$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl, Wouter Valentijn
at
> liam@valentijn.nu wrote on 9/25/05 7:19 AM:
>
> > Nelson Lu wrote:
> >> In article <no-944F18.10324022092005@news.central.cox.net>,
> >> Keeper of the Purple Twilight  <no@spam.invalid> wrote:
> >>> In article <BF5819D3.52D4A%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net>,
> >>> ANIM8Rfsk <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> >>>> Worse - her crew WAS home.  Safe and sound.  The stakes were 'not
> >>>> getting them taken back to die"
> >>>
> >>> I still don't think Q could be trusted to keep his word.
> >>>
> >>> He could have slept with Janeway, then thought "She's not such a
good
> >>> piece of tail anyway" then left Voyager right where it was in the
DQ.
>
> Again, please note, he actually RETURNED them to Earth.  The deal was
to not
> have him take them BACK to the DQ.
> >>
> >> As Janeway noted, Q has never been noted to lie.
> >>
> >> However, one thing that makes it not a good thing to do; there's no
> >> guarantee that the Earth that Q puts them in would be the same
Earth
> >> that they were expecting.  Q promised to get them back to Earth,
and
> >> that was it; it could be a parallel timeline earth; perhaps worse,
he
> >> could drop them right in the middle of a battle with the Dominion.
> >
> > There was nothing that indicated that the Earth in that episode
wasn't their
> > Earth...
>
> Nor did she raise any such objections, did she?  She just condemned
hundreds
> to death on the grounds of her being a prig.

So Q was a masochist, eh?

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.

.