I came across this box set and it’s really messing me up for a lot of reasons (it is marked TOS despite having characters from all over the place, and for some mistaken reason Gul Dukat is included) but what I really wanted to talk about was Q’s inclusion.
Do people usually consider him a villain?
I suppose he has done a lot of things that would be considered antagonistic, with a big one getting a number of Enterprise crew members killed in the first encounter with the Borg, but that seems, at least from his point of view a tough love moment. In the long term, Q did seem to have the survival of humanity as a goal. His judgment of humans was pompous but not villainous.
To be omnipotent and knowing the future don’t make you know better than others to separate good from evil. Is it right to save a civilization if to do that you have to destroy an other?
You would have to keep helping so the 1st civilization does not stomp out the 2nd.