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 : ANIM8Rfsk Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 13:07:51 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise in article dgujmg$u4h$1@xenon.Stanford.EDU, Nelson Lu at nlu@xenon.Stanford.EDU wrote on 9/22/05 8:47 AM: > In article , > Keeper of the Purple Twilight wrote: >> In article , >> ANIM8Rfsk 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. > > 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. Certainly she should have asked a few questions first. In fact everybody ought to go home and call in and say all's clear first.. But given that she apparently destroyed her timeline and murdered everybody on Earth in the finale anyway, I'm not really sure she should care WHAT Earth they got back to. :-) -- You Can't Stop the Signal .