Oh, and my theory in answer to
@Vanyel ’s original question (sorry I got carried away and forgot to answer) is that Q can never appear again to a future crew beyond the late 24th/early 25th Century as their ‘hour glass’ bubble existence ended in the 25th century. Perhaps Q can only travel within their own ‘lifetime’ or the span of the ‘Continuum universe/bubble/it’s minds/consciousness existence’. This could explain why we never got to see the far future anomaly from
All Good Thing’s which was observable by the USS Pasteur before it was formed, thus potentially growing in *both* directions of the passage of time. Q could only take Picard as far forward as the late 24th century when the anomaly was formed due to the Continuum’s life, and thus that of Q itself, ending not much longer after this date. On the reverse journey though time though, as the Q Continuum came in to being before life on Earth was initiated, he was able to take Picard back to see the primordial gue that sparked life on our planet and therefore to observe the larger ‘anti time’ anomaly - Q and the continuum existed at this point of time in the universe so could travel there. If the anomaly had indeed continued to grow *forward* in time as well a backwards, then we could have observed the anomaly in the far future beyond the 25th century, but Q just did not have the ability to show Picard this far future because of it’s own mortality which prevented Q from travelling beyond the future events as depicted in
All Good Thing’s, and in the prime timeline episode beyond
Farewell. This could also mean that Q knew exactly when it was going to ‘die’ as this limitation of it’s powers was observable… Q’s erratic and irrational behaviour in Picard season 2 could be explained by the Continuum’s foreknowledge of it’s imminent ‘death’. The fact that Picard had messed something up in the ‘last minutes’ of the Continuum’s existence caused Q to panic, knowing that there is not much time left to help resolve the resulting mess and destruction (and have a bit of fun with Picard in the process).
If people have no idea what I am talking about in regards to this
All Good Thing’s connection, I tried to explain something similar about the anomalies development
here. This actually makes even more sense now when connected to Q’s lifespan and mortality. Do we ever see Q send anyone in to the future further than this point in time? Maybe he just couldn’t do it. This could also explain the comment from
Discovery season 4 where someone, I forget who, says that the Q Continuum have not been encountered for centuries. They probably just do not exist anymore…
Perhaps we, like the Q, have an ‘hour glass existence’. Perhaps this focal point in time at the start of the 25th century is the beginning of the Star Trek Universe imploding back in on itself just like it did for the continuum itself? This whole implosion could be a result of Q and the continuum ceasing to exist… perhaps they were managing the focal point at the centre of the universal hour glass - helping to manage a big ‘inter galactic food chain/pyramid’ which without them could totally collapse inwards on to itself much like what happened to the Continuum itself as a result of the Q civil war. This might be a universal pattern that repeats on all levels of quantum and meta physics, resonating in coporeal existence and echoing in civilisation, societies, psychology and observable nature and science. Maybe the Travellers can manage this now that the Q are gone if they are up to the job? Perhaps they can help to stop universal implosion and ultimate doom!
Maybe this is why they put an hour glass in the opening credits of Star Trek Picard?
