I mean, to be fair to Picard, it’s unlikely that any conventional weaponry is useful on Q nor is there any way to contain Q. Trying to use weaponry on him or trying to contain him could make him respond in ways most unkind, and Picard knows this.
Poetry isn’t the worst place to start, but maybe he should have tried some Vogon poetry if he really wanted to get the point across.
I mean, to be fair to Picard, it’s unlikely that any conventional weaponry is useful on Q nor is there any way to contain Q. Trying to use weaponry on him or trying to contain him could make him respond in ways most unkind, and Picard knows this.
Poetry isn’t the worst place to start, but maybe he should have tried some Vogon poetry if he really wanted to get the point across.
Well, Sisko had a very different way of dealing with Q.