Q Meets Trelaine For No Particular Reason

     "Wait 'till they get a load of me!!"
     "I thought they already had."
     Q reduced the energy load on his lifeforce as he waited for the Council of Q to call him. What do they want now, he asked himself. So I added some spice to some drabbard humans in a sardine can called the Enterprise. Oh, they may have fallen into misfortunes along the way (like some of their esteemed bridge crew dying). So what!!!! I added some adventure to their lives...
     A flash of light, some coughing and heavy fanning later, Q realizes yet another Omnipotent Being has materialized in his presence.
     "Who (cough-cough) are you??" Q asks. Q also realizes that he is coughing, which is impossible for Omnipotent Beings such as himself. He stops.
     "I am Trelaine from the Dusty Archives of Overused Ideas," says he. "You need some advising!"
     "From a kid???" Q proceeded to pull on his Bridge Officer's uniform, which had mysteriously appeared at that moment.
     "Teenager!!"
     "Advising? You pompous fool! (Q marveled in his use of cliches as well as his talent to contradict himself) You broke one of the laws of the GBOTG!!"
     "What's that?" Trelane looked a bit miffed.
     "The only people who need advising are ones who haven't evolved the talent to become snooty and arrogant! And egotistical!" Some lightning flashed in the background for effect.
     "Why did you pick on that--thing who's running the Enterprise?"
     "Picard? He's my teddy-bear. My Tinker Toys. And I like powering him into submission."
     "But he's so...boring! Why didn't you pick on--"
     "James T. Kirk," finished Q. He laughed. "You are SUCH a child!! He has a power beyond others of his ilk, other beings, even us Q. He may even have a greater power than this reality."
     "Huh?"
     "He possesses the [dramatic pause] --Roddenberry!!!!"
     Trelane nearly blanked himself out, almost impacting the Ethereal Matter that floated past him.
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      Trelane is shown quavering in front of Q. "No! That's a fiction! My ma used that to scare me into my Temporal Resting Pocket!" Trelaine starts to over-act, makes grunts and groans, punctuating each sound with jerky energy discharges.
     "According to the legends, all of us in this universe will live in contrived, rushed plots that really have no meaning, except to put out some type of social statement."
     "We live for humans, although --whimper-- we're so superior to them?" Trelaine shook in feinted shock. "It's NOT fair."
     "That's why I have been trying to be buddy-buddy with the humans. They all have a fraction of the Roddenberry."
     Trelaine considered this for a moment. "Your actions suggest otherwise."
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     As Q shuffled off to the chamber, he asked Trelaine, "What did you come to advise me on?"
     "Oh, nothing. Except that you may be hanging out with the Humans more than you had expected to."
     "Ah! Total obscurity! Someday, my boy, you may become the greatest, pompous, arrogant SOB of an Omnipotent Being!"
     Q later found out that he was thrown out of the Q Continuum in addition to being denied his Club Galax gold card.