i promise ill shut up about q after this (lying) but i had to share my headcanons about him before i go insane?
- q watches the enterprise’s little expeditions from afar sometimes and he eats imaginary popcorn and has a jolly old time (fun to imagine)
- q has a part of his consciousness attached to the enterprise (specifically picard cough faggot cough) at all times so if he’s off focusing on something else & some shit goes down there he knows the fastest
- q went on a spree of causing minor inconveniences (ie. things that could maybe be attributed to bad luck but with an unmistakable q tint) to the entire crew for like three months consecutively and now whenever anything mildly annoying happens the crew is just like Sigh. damnit q. this extends to new crewmembers who havent even met him
- there are canon references to like, debriefings on q after the first interaction with him. i like to think that over time the general consensus is just that q is a Picard Problem. and just b like Q go bother picard. when q shows up randomly rather than actually trying to deal w him
- building on the last hc i like to think that q likes to go annoy other starfleet captains whenever picard’s upset at him for his hijinks. hes like a poor dog whos been left out in the rain kicked out of the house (evil)
this isnt a headcanon but id also like to advocate for data q friendship. theyre both so silly