Do you have a weird fun fandom head cannon/theory that isn't widely adopted but you can't get out of your head?
Here's mine:
The reason that Q never showed back up on DS9 after Sisko punched him isn't that Sisko wasn't as "fun" to play with as Picard or Janeway, it's that Sisko was a literal actual god that existed on higher planes than just the material one, and when he decked Q, Q... actually felt it.
Like, his look of shock and surprise isn't just because Sisko's actions were unexpected, it's because Q FELT IT on a cosmic level.
He realized then and there that Sisko was not JUST a human, but also an extradimensional extraplanar cosmic entity and could, in fact, actually hurt Q in a real and direct way that very few others could.
He might not have 'powers' in the traditional sense (at least not yet), but unlike PIcard or Janeway, he was a real actual tangible threat... that Q had now pissed off.
Q basically fucked around and found out, and steered clear of Sisko afterwards.
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