THE LITTLE GOD WHO BUILT A NEW WORLD FOR A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Here is a prospective little scifi story from behind the scenes of a world creation.  What if creating life on a planet is simply a school homework assignment for a young god?  What if he gets it wrong?  Is there a cosmic garbage can to dump it in?  --Ted

From the universe of Star Trek's Q Continuum comes a story of a young student, doing his homework and a little more....

Creating anything takes practice.  No god gets it right the first few hundred tries, and Little Q was finding the task quite daunting.  

As a young god, the beginnings were grueling for Q5.  After all, the idea of beginning universes of actual living, intelligent beings is dangerous.  What if they become gods themselves and decide to go to war for knowledge and power?  It happens.  Then, a Q entity is punished with menial duties for a period of time until the collective decides to release him to his own recognizance.

The perfect creation would be a society of worshippers, a world of beings in complete subservience to the Q entity of creation.  With enough of these worlds the Q universe could be considered a treasure of domains among the gods.

Earth was the first such experiment for Q5.

Q5 wandered the universe and found a lone, unspectacular galaxy with a small black hole core.  He chose one of the more recent star formations in an outer spiral arm with a water planet dotted with land masses.  It looked good enough. He would give it a try.  What could it hurt?  

Like a gardner, Q5 seeded the planet with the necessary blocks to begin a rapid evolution of beings.  His formulas for life were rudimentary by Q standard, and he knew they would never be approved by the ruling professors had he presented them before The Q Collective, but he was a rebel of the new generation of Qs who wanted freedom from an ancient inner circle of controlling gods.

Q5 looked out among the various dimensions of existence and realized there was no limit to creations.  The possibilities were endless.

Of course, regulations were set in place to be followed with strict enforcement, but Q5 realized another thing:  there were no limitations, only the willingness to become subservient to The Collective.  The ultimate punishment by The Collective was exile to dimensions to be blocked out of the normal communications flow to others.  It was considered death to a Q entity to be isolated, but Q5 was bold.

The little planet flourished with the seedlings of life and began populating and evolving to the ultimate being of intelligence.  The Collective prohibited simplistic worlds to exist without advanced technology and knowledge of how to progress on many levels of chemistry, physics, engineering, and environment control.  Needless aging was prohibited by The Collective.  Death by the pain of aging had long ago been eliminated as unnecessary. 

The skill of creating a perpetual living scheme was an advanced concept to Q5, and he could not wait to create his own world.  The concept of degradation of life would have to wait.  If age becomes reality to the new beings, maybe they could find the answer themselves to overcome it.  Maybe it would make them stronger in the long run, thought Q5.  He proceeded.

On the other hand, maybe they would not die of aging.  Why not allow this planet to make their own way?  How would they evolve?  Would they eventually become like the Q itself?  

His new Earth experiment would would give him answers to many things, but he would it must remain hidden from The Collective.  Besides, the new evolutions would eventually die from environmental exposure or the beings would kill themselves with war or the uncontrolled evolution would create micro organisms of death and kill them, anyway.  Regardless, he would find answers to his questions.

So, after seeding the new little planet of the little galaxy, Q5 left it to its own devices in the process of evolution to return at a later millenium to analyze its demise.  

Four million years later, Q5 had still not returned and life continued to evolve on  Earth.  

But the future looked grim.