Q

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Q might refer to:

Attempting to redirect an article about the great and powerful Q to the article on the Q gospel makes Captain Picard facepalm.

• Q or QAnon is the pseudonym for someone propagating the conspiracy theory known as "The Storm", likely derived from the U.S. Department of Energy's top-secret Q clearance.
• The Q gospel is a hypothesized collection of sayings of Jesus (from the German Quelle, meaning source).
• The Q are a race of nigh-omnipotent beings from Star Trek. Thanks to the wonders of narrativium, stuff like the omnipotence paradox or the ability of the Q to just slag everything in sight were never much of a problem, although their gadgets in the James Bond films were pretty cool.
• Q is an incredibly large unit of energy that is used to measure the amount of energy output on a planetary scale using convenient numbers. 1 Q is equivalent to 1.05×10²¹ joules. Around the time the anthropogenic activity starts consuming 1 Q of energy, it will produce enough direct heat (i.e., not due to the greenhouse effect) to raise the global temperature by 1° C.
• In thermodynamics, Q represents the net heat transferred into a system.
• Q is the seventeenth letter in the English alphabet. It is fairly unique in that most other languages do not have a letter for the English "qu" (though the letter "q" is often used in transliterations, especially of Arabic languages (e.g. Qatar, Qur'an), in Persian (e.g. Qâb, Qom, Saqez), in Hindi and Urdu alike (e.g. Inqilāb, Mustaqbil, Qalam), in Hebrew (e.g. Ashqelon), in Kazakh language (e.g. Qazaq tili, Qazaqstan), and in Pinyin Chinese (e.g. qi)).
• Quetzalcoatl — known as "Q" in the low-budget David Carridine film