This is a very cool story, are you going to continue it? I would like to see what happens on the planet when Q jr. plays taga long.

I'd love to see a sequel to this and find out what happens in there game and how they do as antimessiahs and all evil and every thing in that society.

Great story!

SARAH

Love it! Brilliant Q-ness, all the way, and it strikes me as the kind of story that would... I dunno, -fit- with the Trek style. So, yes. Love it. :)

Your take on the Qs is always interesting and thought-provoking. Nice job.

Great story, you do the best interpratations of the Q I have ever seen. For $hit$ and giggles I think a small epilogue of the end result of thier merry making would be cool though :D

Hey, Zoe, I wanted to have a conversation with you about your review, because I think you raised some good points, but it wasn't a signed review so I can't reply. If you'd like to chat my email is alara at mindspring dot com.

This was awesome. I love Q junior and his interactions with Janeway, his parents, and even the older Q. I would love to see more with him showing up on the Titan or for some reason ending up on the Enterprise with Picard or heck giving Icheb memories of the week he was mortal. Hey, they could try to pair him up with Amanda and he could go hide somewhere, saying he's too young for his own kid. ;) It could also be cool to see him trying out species that don't have a dominant male form to see exactly where his comfort zones lie.

Great stuff that made me smile, empathize, and really enjoy. You made Q junior both very Q and young. Awesome.

This is a really, really great concept, but I am frustrated by how binary your gender systems are. You're either male, female - or neither, of course. Where are our genderqueers? And there's absolutely no explanation of what 'male' means to Junior anyway, so we human readers are going to read this necessarily as Stereotypical Male, which is to say, stereotypical to our culture. I would have liked to have seen specifically what male traits baby!Q identifies with, although I do understand where you were going with the "I just am" argument, because arguably that is largely how it is.

I also refuse to believe that on every planet everywhere you're either male or female or androgynous and there's nothing in between, no planets with, say, five different genders. Not to mention, I'm using 'gender' in the sociopolitical sense, but not in the proper sense; I should (and you should) differentiate between gender and sex, wherein 'sex' refers to the biological classification (sex organs and chromosomes, etc) and 'gender' refers to the perceived or projected (self-identified) femininity or masculinity of a human individual, derived from the political, social and cultural environment and societal views and expectations of males and females.

What Junior seems to be saying is that he feels male-gendered, and Daddy!Q seems to be arguing from a male-sexed ideology, which is a different conversation. But Daddy!Q would definitely know the difference, at least within humanity, which in this story seems to be the 'male' gender baby!Q is indeed identifying with - or humanoid, anyway.

At any rate - I enjoyed the story. I could've done without the obvious slight against our human Religious Right, but that's just because I prefer my fanfiction sans politics, and has nothing to do with the quality of your writing. :)

Whoah, heavy stuff. And the pronouns were crazy confusing. But seeing how that was the point, we'll count that as a plus. Interesting explore. Although, now I really want to read about this Dark Messiah thing. lol.