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[13 Aug 2003|12:22pm] |
I didn't even think we *got* tired. But I've never had a major project before. I want a vacation soooo bad.
Started working with the Ocampa, carefully. Have not been so careful with the Kazon Nistrum. I think I sort of, um. Well, okay, I did all like fire and glory and told them I would smite them unless they left the Ocampa alone. Okay, not subtle. Not subtle at all. But I had to do something about the raiding parties. Aside from dropping big rocks out of the sky onto their heads, 'cause that's just mean. And subtle was not working. And they're lucky I didn't get mad enough to *actually* smite them, because I almost did. Man, they are frustrating.
Now there are Kazon women praying to me to make their husbands be nicer to them. Eep! That... was not what I was after.
Being a goddess is really hard work. Oh, and I've had to pay attention to B'fario too since I'm the maiden goddess there. There are some Q who are gods on like hundreds of worlds or something. How do they do it? I am so stressed and I've only got two species, plus another one I didn't mean to get.
I waaaant iiiiice cream. And Risa. And handsome young men to give me backrubs that I don't really need but they feel good anyway. And a hot tub. Or maybe a whole hot lake. Maybe I'll go swim in a volcanic spring. Or a volcano. (Though hot lava's hell on your hair.)
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[30 Jun 2003|12:41pm] |
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*Sigh*
What is it about cute guys that makes me act like a complete idiot?
See, I, um, might have mentioned that there's this guy, who's an individualized Borg, who I happen to think is really really cute, except that the Borg sort of have this history with us. As in, they're scared silly of us. So I was going back and forth and back and forth about whether I should even talk to this guy or if I'd just scare him. And I decided, okay, nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? So I went to talk to him. And, uh, he's scared silly of me.
And it does not help that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) qcontinuum is telling him we wipe out civilizations and he should be scared of me! Everyone, say it with me now: JERK!!!
Oh, I wouldn't want to be unoriginal. How about "ASSHOLE?" Or "BASTARD?" Or "GUY WHO CAN WHINE THAT HE WANTS A BABYSITTER UNTIL THE END OF TIME BEFORE I DO HIM A FAVOR EVER AGAIN?"
You know it's not like I was gonna put him on trial for the crimes of his species or anything like that. I just like hanging out with cute guys! Is that so wrong?
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| Breathing a sigh of relief. |
[22 May 2003|03:32pm] |
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After seeing what's been going on with doctorbashir, ezridax, smiley_miles and botanist_keiko? Wow, I am so glad I did not get involved with that. Julian's awfully cute, but... so not worth that level of angst. I'd almost think someone with a penchant for relationship tricksterism was messing with them but... nope, doesn't look like anyone is. Except maybe the_prophets, but who knows what they're up to.
Charlie now has a livejournal too-- _charlie_x_. I'm a little surprised by that, but I guess I shouldn't be. Poor guy gets awfully lonely. And yes, Wes, I think it would be cool for the three of us to hang out sometime. Can you get to the Delta Quadrant? I've been spending a lot of my time lately on the Ocampan homeworld. (If you can't, no big thing-- I *am* a Q, transportation's no issue for me-- but I made this nice pretty oasis and I want to show it off. :-))
Also, and I have to confess this is really silly of me considering the circumstances, but there's this guy on the system who is SOOO CUTE. Except he's, uh, he's a Borg, actually. But a really cute Borg! With a personality! (Individualized Borg. I'm not dumb enough to fall for real Borg. Unlike *someone* I could mention who tried to marry the Queen. Well, ok, it was an ex-girlfriend who'd been assimilated and turned into a Queen, but that was a ridiculous way to de-assimilate her.) I'm thinking about going to visit, except that the Borg sort of view us as, well, uh, scary? Like, really scary? Like, "we can't assimilate that, so run away?" So I'm trying to get up the nerve.
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| I've been so busy! |
[19 Apr 2003|12:53pm] |
Been working on my test plan for the Ocampa, and I think I should run an intervention on the Kazon too. They don't belong in space-- they were tribal desert warriors when the Talaxians sold them old junker spaceships in exchange for dilithium, and now they've managed to export a completely primitive lifestyle and philosophy off their home planet and all over the region. At this point there's too many of them to banish back to their home planet and I think I'd have a hard time getting an authorization for an interdict anyway, so I have to go about it another way.
I'm *thinking* I may encourage a women's rights movement. I don't know of any species where there isn't an actual biological difference in the intelligence of the sexes (such as the Kzinti, where the females are stupid, or the Kittarin, where the males are) that successfully got into space under their own power while still repressing half their population. The Ferengi also bought their warp technology, and the Klingons and Cardassians have always encouraged women to be scientists, so even though they favor male warriors they don't restrict women from intellectual pursuits. On the other hand, I do have an obvious bias here, being the only member of the Q Continuum who is female (technically none of us have gender, but I'm so strongly gendered in my own mind, due to having grown up female, I can't get away from thinking of myself as a woman, even though I could be anything), so I could be wrong. harrykim? kathrynjaneway? chakotay? Anyone from Voyager? You all had significant dealings with the Kazon; do you think I can get them to expand their minds out of a primitive desert warrior mindset by running an intervention to promote women's equality in their society? Or am I biased?
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| Q is being a mean horrible JERK! |
[10 Apr 2003|12:43pm] |
I guess this doesn't surprise anyone.
He's mad at me for telling wes_crusher about his motives in the whole giving will_riker the powers of the Q thing so he's trying to embarrass me by talking about all the people I slept with. Like first of all he has any room to talk? And second of all I admitted I was Mary Sue and pretty much dated everyone, already? And third of all like he *cares*? He's just picking it because he thinks it will embarrass me in front of *humans*. No one in the Continuum cares.
Well, *two* can play at that game.
He *still* has a big crush on kathrynjaneway but he thinks if he admits it she'll stop being nice to him! *And* he also has a big crush on another starship captain I could mention.
qcontinuum, you have millions of years more dirt on you than I will ever have! So I have more ammo if this is Embarrassment War. So shut up!
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| Arrgh! The revenge of the busybody Q |
[10 Apr 2003|09:44am] |
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So the other day I posted this about getting the upper hand when a very annoying Q whined at me about not telling humans how Q powers work. I thought I'd won that one, but it turns out she was just regrouping. Today I found out what her revenge is.
She's convinced some of the higher-ups to assign me to a cusp species-- a species that's on the verge of evolving into a higher form. Normally this is a great honor and she pretty much sold them on it with saying I deserved it for meritorious service blah blah blah. Only, it's the Ocampa! And I have to submit a test plan within a year!
( Kicking fluffy puppy dogs in order to save them?! I can't do that! )
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| Um. |
[07 Apr 2003|08:14pm] |
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I have a kid dumped on my doorstep.
He says his dad has gone to visit Captain Picard and that he told him I would take care of him. Well, if Q's giving an itinerary at least he probably isn't abandoning the kid. Probably. He's blocking, so I can't sense whatever it is he's doing or thinking, but the kid seems cheerful enough.
Argh. I suppose I deserved this. I guess it really was awfully Q-like of me to essentially leave his dad to sink or swim despite the fact that he repeatedly begged me for help.
Uh? Wes? Any hope I could beg you to help me out? I *could* bring him to his dad, but since his dad is presumably on the Enterprise right now, that would be a bad idea. And I haven't babysat anyone since I was 13 years old. And I'm going to have to be fighting my Q instincts on this one. And Charlie has never met a child before in his life and isn't much more mature than one himself, so he's no help. I know you probably haven't had much more contact with kids than I did when I was human, but I desperately need someone who has *any* clue of how to handle kids... and keep in mind my entire species is incompetent at it...
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| Busy day! |
[07 Apr 2003|01:23pm] |
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So I put on my "guide of lesser species" hat and posted something to poor jellobitch (and I gotta think someone in the Federation set her up with that name) in my I Am A Wise And Powerful God voice and not my I'm A Twenty-Something Human Woman voice. I was studying Q history and it just hit me how much we were once like the Changelings. Well, except that when we conquered half the galaxy, we did it because we felt like it and not because we were scared that if we didn't they'd kill us. So I wanted to try to help her out; she's so scared of what will happen to her people, but what they've agreed to explore is the best path they could follow right now for their future evolution. If they are like what we once were, it stands to reason someday they could become like us.
In fact, in another funny way we were also sort of like the Cardassians. Everyone out for the benefit of the species as a whole, everyone arguing with each other over how exactly to do that. Lots of internal conflict and power struggles. Conquering the galaxy for glory and because we thought we could improve the lives of the people we conquered (which is a stupid, stupid idea.) Also, the whole "insults = flirting" thing.
It amazes me, given where I come from, how much we're *not* like humans, though we do have (or had) the one thing in common: the will-to-power, the desire to improve and grow. Which bugs some people. Today I had a conversation that goes sort of like this:
( Amanda, 1, busybody Q, 0 )
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| I know the pieces fit... |
[06 Apr 2003|07:24pm] |
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There's something fundamentally broken about us and I don't know how to fix it. Humans can turn to a counselor, but Q aren't really good at seeking advice and help. From anyone. I mean, it's not my responsibility to fix an entire society, and I'm not fooling myself into thinking it is... but I'm the only one who came recently from a different species, the only one who should have the ability to think outside the structures that have governed Q thought for billions of years.
( More details inside... )
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| Hi, universe! |
[04 Apr 2003|11:47pm] |
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Q has one of these things, and I was going to use his after he was a real jerk when I asked him to relay a simple message, since he's the one who named his journal qcontinuum like he somehow speaks for all of us. I hate when he does that. But it turned out I couldn't break into his journal (which I can hear him snickering about halfway across the Continuum), so I decided, okay, I want one of my own. Because there's something very important I want the universe to know about the Continuum: we aren't all jerks. No, really, I mean it. I'm not a jerk. I've been called a few other names in my time, but not a jerk. Q acts like he's speaking for the Continuum as a whole, and as a result, lots of people think we're basically the Jerk Continuum. It's not true! Some of us are nice.
So, here I am! Q, born Amanda Rogers, aka Mary Sue (or Anastasia Glorifia, or Raven Darkclaw, or Alys Shadowfire, or you get the idea), Aspect of the Maiden on B'fario, former Starfleet intern, perpetual teenager for the past 3,000 years by having joined a species that grows up a whole lot more slowly than the one I was born into. And war hero, sorta. Though we're all trying really really really hard to pretend the war and the stuff that led up to it didn't happen. (My entire species is in denial. We have PTSD. Help! I need to find a counselor who does omnipotent beings!)
Anyway, I see Captain Picard (timenchanter) is on here, and Counselor Troi (cnslrdeannatroi), and a whole lot of people I don't know... yet. Don't worry about me randomly dropping in, though; unlike, oh, say, everyone else in my species, I was raised by a species which has the concept of doorbells.
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