Star Trek: Why Did Q Leave Captain Sisko Alone?
Star Trek has been a staple in the science fiction genre ever since Gene Roddenberry first brought the spacefaring sitcom to audiences in the late 1960s. Since then, it has spawned various movies and TV shows that are still being added to today. Throughout the years, it has come up with some truly spectacular what-ifs. These range from technological innovation like the faster-than-light warp drive and the matter replicator, to a plethora of diverse (if not mostly humanoid) alien races.
Among these alien races are the omniscient and often nefarious Q — a race who are all called Q within their society, the Q continuum. One Q particularly enjoyed tormenting main protagonist Starfleet captains, appearing frequently in the franchise. Of all these, however, he chose to leave Captain Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space 9 alone. But why?
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The in-universe explanation is most likely to be summarized by how he probably did not find the morally questionable Sisko as interesting as Picard or Janeway, the other two captains he frequented over the years. The Q are an interesting lot, and it’s easy to forget that the actions of the Q played by John de Lancie are not representative of the whole race. His actions were often extreme and got him in trouble with the rest of his people, but he only did what he did because he was bored. This was the trouble with being immortal, timeless, and omniscient beings: eventually, they experienced everything there was to experience, discovered everything in the known and unknown universe, and philosophized their way through every thought and query possible. This got so extreme that at the point audiences meet Q in TNG, he remarks that they don’t even talk to one
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