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Corbin Bersnen, gave him his appearance. Lol.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great.

Anybody's guess.
He chose a combination of physical traits that would evoke certain feelings in people looking at him.
It is random and he has little control over it like Doctor Who regenerations.
He needs to use someone's body when in our dimension like angels/demons do in Supernatural.
He was given this appearance by other Qs.

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Because, he's Q.
What John DeLancie looks like, totally fits Q's personality.

He was great, any way he looked.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great.

Yea, he looks very woman like starting in the 4th photo.
BRING THEM TO HEAL!

Say it with a picture:
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/uploads/post-10566-1126102875.jpg

Michal Jackson never really looked like a black man.
He looked like a black kid and possibly a black teen, but looking like a man, never.
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Michael Jackson once looked a bit like a black man.

I thought John Delancy or whatever his name to s was sort of cute.
He had cute front teeth.
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The singer from Queensrche looked a bit like Q.

Thanks for agreeing with me, Nak. Definitely not horrible looking.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great.

I agree, I don't think he is that bad looking.
I think if he was too good looking it would seem pretentious.
He is supposed to look like an average guy when he appears on the ship.
If he wanted to look Greek god like, he could have just been portrayed as a ball of bright light instead of a person at all.
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Given that Q views human beings as flawed, it only makes sense that he would present himself as an okay but not perfect-looking human with something of a lisp.
Q did for a moment show Picard and the bridge crew his real self, and if memory serves he had something like four heads and multiple arms. I'm sure to another Q that would be a beautiful sight to behold and to Q himself that would probably be the model of perfection.
De Lancie is not an unattractive man, but he doesn't quite constitute a perfect specimen.

Not for nothing, but De Lancie isn't exactly the ugliest man in the world. You guys are talking about him like he's the elephant man.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Matt Roberts. You were great.

If you are going to project authority then you would want to appear as a middle-aged man.
I think it's the same reason a lot of young soldiers would not want say a young general leading them into combat. A young general would be more prone to making mistakes with them and costing them their lives than a general with some gray hair on his head. At the same time they wouldn't want a general who seemed to be so old that they would have to wonder if he was mentally all there.
It's very hard to be a pretty boy and project authority and gravitas.

And the writers forgot she was Q over on Voyager. Quinn claimed there'd been nothing new to talk about in forever, then when they had the civil war the solution was to add a new member to the continuum, even though she had been added just a few years before.
They also should have saved Olivia's appearance for DS9 and had her guest star as a Dabo girl.

She doesn't even realize that she's Q at first, which means her humanoid form ages naturally. That might explain why John de Lancie's Q appears middle-aged.
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." J. Robert Oppenheimer

Amanda was flipping adorable.
but I guess, if they are supposed to be all powerful, you don't want some sort of Princess Di lady, you kind of want to be scared of the being.
Oh God. Fortune
vomits
on my eiderdown once more.

None of the other Q who appear in humanoid form are really supermodels either. Maybe his appearance is a physical representation of his personality.
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." J. Robert Oppenheimer

I know what you mean. and I more or less agree. he should be some sort of heartthrob by logic.
I thought it was the only one who noticed the lisp. I am okay with a normal person/character having a bit of a speech impediment. but for someone who is supposed to be perfect in every way, no.
I often talk about my school on this site usually for good reason to make a point or something Half of the people at my school have some sort of speech impediment/accents that hinder the correct learning of the English language.
srsly, the we only have about 15 people who speak correctly and they are all in the prek classes [imperative] and the speech teachers [also imperative]. the rest round out our cast of colorful 'teachers'. and yes, I actually teach when I am at work.
our ap's are just odd to say the least.
idears
and
ambalances
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libaries
and
ridikilusness
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I am convinced one dual language teacher can't even READ English. everything she does is in Spanish.
the interesting thing I have noticed quite a few 'self righteous' people at work have a teensy bit of a lisp. like they make themselves speak that way to sound 'smarter'.
Oh God. Fortune
vomits
on my eiderdown once more.

Because John de Lancie appears arrogant and obnoxious enough to pull it off.
Why are you here if you haven't seen the movie yet?