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Does Q ever actually lie?

In the episode Deja-Q, Picard openly accuses Q of being dishonest: Q: I have no powers. Q the ordinary. PICARD: Q the liar. Q the misanthrope. And in the DS9 episode Q-Less, Vash claims that Q was ...
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Why do the Q have genders?

It seems, at least from "Qpid," that the Qs' humanoid appearance is just for show. The "main" Q is not really a male, for example. After all, Q tells Picard in the episode that given different ...
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Were the other Alpha-Beta quadrant powers aware of the Q?

We know that the Federation, at least the high ranking officials and Starfleet, were aware of the Q as a species but also "De-Lancie-Q" in particular. The thing is, while Q was quite fascinated with ...
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Physical Appearance of the Q

What do the Q look like? Do the Q actually have any sort of physical form that humans can perceive, or are they incorporeal?
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Does Q ever appear when an admiral is onboard?

Q generally always appears with a captain's rank. Does he ever appear when an admiral is aboard? The one time I am certain of is in "All Good Things," with Riker as Admiral, but that was another ...
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Do the Q know about and take heed of the Prophets? [duplicate]

I just looked online to see if I could find a theory that I just had. I was just watching TNG for the umpteenth time (thanks to Netflix), after watching DS9 through to the end first (as my personal ...
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Does Q perform "magic," or does he actually know how to do everything?

Bear with me. When Q snaps his fingers and turns Crusher into a dog, does he just "think it," or is there some scientific "explanation" for how he could do such a thing, that he needs to "think" into ...
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How old is Q from Star Trek? [duplicate]

Based on when the last child was born in the Continuum, we know that he's at least a millennia old. How old is he? Following the death of Quinn, a massive Q Civil War broke out, as the forces of the ...
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Can the Q transport without the flash?

The Q are omnipotent (according to them saying so many times in the course of Deja Q). But I don't recall ever seeing a Q transport without making that 'flash'. Do we ever see a Q transport without ...
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