I still think that, from Q’s perspective, All Good Things takes place immediately after Encounter at Farpoint and his ‘earlier’ appearances were him going back in time to see how exactly Picard grew so much in seven years. I mean, it’s not like the Q are constrained to following linear time.
I enjoyed Q’s appearances, but it was a strange choice to add what amounts to a literal god to the series.
Are any of them on Q’s level? Honest question.
IIRC Trelane was retconned to be a Q, so at least that one would be equal by definition.
Also, I put them in the meme in roughly what I guessed to be ascending power level (treating Ben Sisko as a full-blown Prophet, just for kicks), but YMMV.
Given that Badgey attained omnipresence/omniscience and was still in awe of the Koala says plenty of his fuzzy prowess.
Koala appears to be well above Q’s level
TNG took a couple seasons to develop its identity and not just be more of TOS with new actors, and random gods, including Apollo, showing up is something that happened pretty regularly in TOS. The various gods in TOS are ultimately depicted as probably not being real gods and just being aliens with very advanced tech and maybe some weird biology, and there’s some indication that the Q are the same. Like the Prophets, they’re from a not-fully-corporeal reality adjacent to our own, and they have seemingly magical technology that we’re able to use; the Orbs from the Prophets, the Q weapons from the Q.
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“If we all die here, now, you will not be able to gloat. You wanted to frighten us. We’re frightened. You wanted to show us that we were inadequate. For the moment… I grant that. You wanted me to say, ‘I need you’? I need you!”
