It’s been months since I dropped a Groonkly Bit into This Ocean internet. Months or weeks. I have a small problem with time.
Anyway, I saw the “Q Who?” episode of Star Trek The Next Generation a day ago and remembered how well they could get across a story once upon a time. Seeing the news report about the Virgin Galactic accident made the quote resonate with even more real world truth.
Q: You had to be taught a lesson, Jean-Luc.
Capt. Picard: I could have learned that lesson without the loss of eighteen members of my crew.
Q: If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.
John de Lancie‘s delivery was spot on. Then again, it was rarely off the mark.
