☾: Favorite moment from your Muse’s canon, and why.
An episode is totally a “moment,” riiiiight? XD
JK. (Although it’s either “The Q and the Grey” or “Deja Q”.)
I don’t know if I can class it as a favorite--he’s had a lot of neat moments that I just go gaga over--but probably one of the most stand-out moments to me is in the shuttlecraft during the end of “Deja Q”. It’s an image that’s really seared into my mind: Q (Corbin Bernsen) leaning over Q (de Lancie), almost (if I recall correctly) trying to talk him out of his idea of self-sacrifice, and Q (de Lancie) standing firm in the face of it, willing to end himself to spare the crew he’d grown so strangely fond of.
It’s one of the only times we get to glimpse past Q’s bravado and into the character himself. More than his willingness to sacrifice himself--an almost expected trope in Star Trek by this point, given the large number of selfless characters in the franchise--it was really seeing this steely resolve in Q that made him unique. He’s referred to as a pest and a problem, called persistent in negative tones, but here we see that he really is quite determined, and can act for the sake of someone other than himself.
I don’t know. It’s probably stupid, but I really like it.