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      11 months ago

      Yup. It’s all about magic, swords, princesses, etc. There’s literally light and dark wizards.

      It’s a fantasy series in a Sci-Fi environment.

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        11 months ago

        I mean it’s implied that Q is just from a super advanced civilisation, rather than being innately magic. One of the first things we learn from Q is that he believes humanity has a chance of being a society that will some day be on the same level as them.

        IMO the Q are presented as more of a Clarke’s Third Law (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”) kinda thing. Think about how the Mintakans view Picard in the episode Who Watches the Watchers - they view him as being a magical, god-like being, due to them looking at him through the lense of a primative society. That’s how the Q are meant to appear to us.

        The Force in Star Wars is never presented that way. It’s literally just a magical force that you can either tap into, or you cannot.