This guy wiped out an entire race with a thought and your plan is to do what exactly?
It’s like that scene in “The Dark Knight”
Lucius Fox : Let me get this straight, you think that your client, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante, who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, and your plan is to blackmail this person?
[Reese’s face falls and Fox smiles]
Lucius Fox : Good luck.
Q would have said,
“Oh the Husnock? Horrible, simply horrible species. Good riddance. Did you ask me here to give Uxbridge a medal or something? Because he certainly doesn’t deserve it! Why I’ve already genocided three species this morning and didn’t even get a thank you.”
That guy put himself in solitary confinement, forever. What could the feddies do to him that is more fitting?
Is it really confinement if you can leave of your own volition?
Also, hang him.
Yes, let’s put a noose around the neck of someone who is essentially a god.
What’s he gonna do about it? Besides, Picard already bosses around a god all the time.
If you really are too scared, we can make Sisko do it.
I mean, I sort of imagine it to be less the “rule on the books” part, and more the “do we actually have the physical capacity to enforce those rules” end of it. They cant really imprison him (I mean while he’s feeling guilty he might stay willingly, but they cant keep him in if he eventually changes his mind, so itd more be him imprisoning himself). Trying to despite the futility of it would seem somewhat dangerous, because again, if he should ever change his mind, you clearly dont want to seem hostile to something with that kind of power, especially when you dont have it. Saying “Our law is not sufficient for you” could just be interpreted as the most diplomatic way given his mental state to justify leaving and not returning.
To be fair Janeway wasn’t around at the time, so they didn’t have any examples of genocide to go off of.
He just made it uninhabitable by humans. Not exactly the same as wiping it out, but since it forced displacement of a whole planet, it was genocide.
If the Federation was in the business of putting higher beings on trial, don’t you think the second they learned Q was human they’d slap him in a courtroom so fast it’d make his head spin?
Hold up. Q is human??
Fuck me. That’s big spoilers. When am I gonna find this out?
Later on we find out he was just 2 Q kids in a trenchcoat pretending to be human
If these are spoilers you are about 30 years behind.
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Two that I can remember: Q got temporarily kicked out of the continuum (reference d above), also when Q got banished in the asteroid and Janeway let him out, he became human, then committed suicide.
