Destructive View

Thesis: Q is overall unimpressed with the world around him

Q has teenager-like destructive attitude towards the world. After he loses the rest of his species, he doesn’t show as much remorse as he should.

“... period of great death ... long migration that saved me led me through a cemetary of fleshless carcasses ... “ (pg. 97)

Instead of showing large amounts of remorse, he has a sort of destructive tone to to this, he says it matter-of-factly, with an underlying tone of “the deserved it”. He doesn’t even bother trying to bury the dead, give them a proper good-bye... he just seems mad. He’s walking through something of a post apocalyptic world, and he’s not upset. It seems odd no?

Q seems to want to be destroyed, he lacks the confidence in the world to want to stick around. He is explaining the situation before diving into our story, and he says:

“Now there are those those who say the pleasure of decadence, the desire to be destroyed were part of the spirit of us Dinosaurs even before then.” (pg. 97)

Well, well, well... this is yet another piece of evidence that Q is overall unimpressed with the world around him. He tells us that before the dinosaurs went extinct, he felt that they needed to be destroyed, not only needed to be destroyed, but they wanted to be destroyed. He seems to be projecting his own feelings onto the entire species, that the pleasure of a good life means that you want to be destroyed at the same time.

Q doesn’t have much confidence in himself, he thinks the entire world sees him as a monster, he see himself as a monster and doesn’t believe that the young female at the watering hole would accept him or talk to him.

“I could already imagine her desperate scream the moment she saw me...” (pg. 98)

This dinosaur views himself as a monster, something that everyone (including himself) fears. He almost wants the female to be afraid and run, so that it will confirm his ideas about himself, so that he knows there isn’t a reason to keep going. It’s interesting...

So overall, Q is completely unimpressed with himself and the rest of the world, and acts accordingly.