Heeeee's BACK! The Return of Q & A

by Alara Rogers

Sequel to "Q & A". Q answers questions about himself. Posted as a TNG/VOY crossover because technically speaking a lot of stuff that's important to Q, such as the war, his son, his ex, etc, came from Voyager episodes.

21. Happy endings are a contradiction

Prompt: Happy endings.

The essence of an ending is that something is done with. Kaput. Finis. As a result, the common mortal misconception that there can be a happy ending in a lifetime is almost absurdly misplaced.

There can be a happy ending to something that was awful to begin with. A happy ending to a struggle, for instance, or a war. A happy ending to a miserable childhood. A happy ending to an imprisonment. Perhaps even a happy ending to a bad relationship, if the participants can be mature about it (although most bad relationships are not noted for the maturity of the participants.)

But a happy ending to a life? Lives end in death. I know a fellow (*1) who thought death was his personal happy ending, but I continue to refuse to accept that.(*2) Death may be acceptable, but it is never happy. (At least not for the person who died. Some people deserve to have their graves danced on after they die.)

Given the choice between ending, and not ending, I generally think that not ending is the happier of the two.

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p.1. "Q & A" chp. 12, "On The Nature Of Mu"; 2. "Heee's BACK!" chp 7, "Letters I Will Never Send"