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Grace in a Vacuum by Marcelo. Stargate Atlantis with Q. Rodney McKay goes through a gate and ends up in a completely deserted Atlantis, with bizarre hallucinations as his only companions... except, of course, they're not hallucinations at all. Rated PG. Recced.

In A Galaxy Where No Man Has Gone Before by Merfilly. Star Wars/TNG, explicit slash. Q isn't exactly in this -- it's a Picard/Qui-Gon Jinn fic -- but the story is more or less a sequel (though it was written first) to Merfilly's "Misunderstandings", recced below, and Picard's backstory with Q is one of the drivers of the plot. Contains explicit consensual m/m sex and implied rape. Rated NC-17.

Information Indiscretions by Anya. TNG/Hitchhiker's Guide. Q is only a minor character in this one. Data meets Marvin from Hitchhiker's and becomes infatuated. Strongly implied P/Q relationship but the entire story is PG-rated.

Colorblind: by Duck. TNG/Firefly. River follows a Crow to the TNG universe, where she learns that she is much more sane out of her home 'verse but much less powerful, and that Crow's other name is Q. PG. Recced.

I Shall Be Made Thy Music by Andraste. TNG/Battlestar Galactica (new). God shows up and offers Gaius Baltar a chance to undo his terrible mistake... at a possible price. Gaius isn't quite sure this is actually God, though. PG. Recced.

In The Shadows by Eren. TNG/Babylon 5. In a universe where a very, very dark version of Jean-Luc Picard is Emperor, courtesy of Q, Lyta Alexander is trying to find a way home... but unfortunately finds Picard first. Picard/Q, though not exactly "our" Picard. Dark, non-explicit torture. Rated R. Recced.

There Is Nothing Like The Truth of the Fool: by Leyenn. TNG/Babylon 5. Before the coming of the Shadows, Morden meets Q in a dream. PG-13. Recced.

Res-Q by Astrogirl. TNG/Farscape. Q finds John Crichton too entertaining to let him stay dead. Humor. PG. Recced.

Meddeling: by Nemesis. TNG/Doctor Who. Milan is burning and the Doctor runs into someone who's as out of place as he is. PG.

Doctor Who crossover, Picard/Q/Ten, untitled: by bagheera_san. Q and the Doctor feud over which one of them Picard will travel through time with. PG.

Bright Young Thing: by bagheera_san. JLU crossover, Picard, Q, Lex Luthor. Q brings Picard to a way station for godlike beings, and has a conversation with Lex Luthor. PG.

Of Gods: by kateydidnt. Doctor Who crossover, Q and Ten. Incomplete. Q shows up in the TARDIS. The Doctor finds out that mysterious aliens popping in out of nowhere to have incomprehensible conversations with one is much more annoying when you're not the mysterious alien. PG.

The Legacy of Haruhi Suzumiya: by Elycat. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya crossover. The SOS Brigade ends up aboard the Enterprise. Q has an interest in Haruhi; the SOS Brigade has an interest in not letting Haruhi realize *why*. Also, Yuki freaks out, for Yuki-like values of freaking out, because she's lost her connection to the Data Entity. Incomplete. PG.

Lost In The Woods: by Ardwolf. Firefly crossover. Q sends the Enterprise to the Firefly 'verse for a test. Very well done; also does a good job of bridging the viciousness Q shows in "Q Who" to the Enterprise crew's grudging willingness to help him in "Deja Q". PG-13.

Human: Icarus_Chained (aka one of the trio of "Slightly Sinister Sinestra" on fanfiction.net.) This one's my favorite, but we all know my obsessions. Q explains to Picard why yes, being human *was* that bad. Rather angsty. Established relationship for Picard and Q. Rated PG.

A Far Distant Star: Icarus_Chained. Angst *and* schmoop, but in a relatively in-character way. Q accidentally harms Troi while trying to help her improve her mental shields, and the solution must involve Picard learning things about Q that Q would rather keep to himself. The ending gets a little soppy for my taste, but the author acknowledges she was kind of young when she wrote it. Rated PG-13.

Thank You: Icarus_Chained. The meaning of the words "thank you" to Q. Established relationship for Picard and Q. Has Q telling stories about his past, which is always a winner with me. Rated PG.

Eternity: Icarus_Chained. "I have written you into the heart of stars, mon capitaine..." Rather overblown for my taste, but I like my P/Q very understated; I think this will appeal to anyone who likes Varoneeka, for instance. Rated PG.

Fair Maiden's Honour: Slightly Sinister Sinestra, aka Icarus_Chained. Q shows up, darker and crueler than he has ever been, and threatens to rape Picard. And then Picard figures out it's not "his" Q, right before the real Q shows up to stop him. Incomplete, P/Q is implied but more of a pre-P/Q. Rated R, attempted rape.

Only Once: Sasha_Anu. Prompt: Picard/Q, "only once". Picard tricks Q... or does he? Rated PG-13. Sasha_Anu tends to write an almost antagonistic Picard/Q, perhaps not reciprocated on Picard's part, or perhaps it is.

Infatuation: Sasha_Anu. Picard figures something out. Q does not like the end result. Rated PG-13.

Sweet Dreams: Sasha_Anu. Written for the Porn Battle, prompt: "dreams." Rated R.


Misunderstanding : Merfilly. Dark and painful. Q screws up, majorly. Rated R, non-con. Is a prequel to a Picard/Qui-Gon Jinn crossover pairing fic from Multiverse.

Games: Jen. Q watches Jean-Luc and Beverly play chess.

And Justice for Q: John Berger. Q shows up on the Enterprise, Picard actually manages to take him captive with force fields and technobabble, and the Federation puts him on trial for exposing humanity to the Borg. The Continuum think this is hilarious, and agree to enforce whatever sentence the Federation enacts, as long as Q is permitted to choose anyone from all time and space to be his lawyer. Q picks Kirk. Rated PG (no sex, no bad language, no violence).

I absolutely love this story. Many fan writers try to pull off some sort of situation where technology can be used to contain Q in some way; few manage it, and few do anything interesting with it once it's done. This was a very nice handling of the concept. I liked the use of Kirk and I liked the arguments presented. Since I myself am of the opinion that Enterprise has made canon that the Borg were on their way anyway, and TNG strongly implied it in the first place, I was at first afraid that the writer would completely ignore the fact that Q prepared the Federation for an invasion that was coming anyway... but no, that's a plot point. Very well done. Also, pretty funny in places.

StarCrossed Stravo. (Incomplete, but huge.) Like many Star Wars/Star Trek crossovers, this uses Q as one of a large cast of characters, but it does some very interesting stuff with him. It's the only fic I've ever seen to *both* use the fanon that Q was Trelane, *and* acknowledge that Q is a lot older and more mature than Trelane, *and* treat Q as a sympathetic, even heroic, character. The universe is ending, a result of humans engaging in too much time travel. Gary Mitchell and Q are playing a game involving throwing the Star Wars characters, the Classic Trek Enterprise, and the NX-01 together into the TNG/VOY era. Gary's motive is primarily to torment Kirk and secondarily to make so much chaos it will be impossible for anyone to save the universe; Q's motive, though he pretends to Gary that he's more disinterested than he is, is to save humanity and the universe.

Has good roles for Wesley Crusher and Charlie Evans; for some reason, though, no female Trek superpowered allies show up. Some of the stuff with Janeway is a little weird. The Star Wars stuff goes heavily AU with a Luke who's on the Dark Side, allied with Vader, when the story begins. Not great for P/Q fans, since I don't think Q and Picard even interact with each other; mostly Q deals with Kirk, Janeway, and Gary, and occasionally the rest of the omnipotent community. This is *very* long and has a metric buttload of characters. Sadly, he hasn't finished it yet, but who am I to talk? Rated PG-13, I think (I could be wrong... the damn thing's huge, so I may have missed a sex scene.) No sex, possible bad language, violence but nothing like explicit torture.