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* TheCameo: Jonathan Frakes as Commander Riker from ST:TNG, called as a witness for the trial.

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* TheCameo: Jonathan Frakes as Commander Riker from ST:TNG, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', called as a witness for the trial.



-->'''Q:''' May I see you in your chambers, Captain?\\

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-->'''Q:''' May I see you in your chambers, Captain?\\Captain?
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Q calls an expert witness on the Continuum to give testimony. [[ActingForTwo Himself.]]

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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Q calls an expert witness on the Continuum to give testimony. [[ActingForTwo Himself.]]

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* CallBack



* DeusExMachina: Q offers to instantly take Voyager back to Earth if Janeway rules in his favour.



'''JANEWAY:''' You've [[BedmateReveal been in my chambers]] enough for one visit, sir.

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'''JANEWAY:''' -->'''Janeway:''' You've [[BedmateReveal been in my chambers]] enough for one visit, sir.


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* FacialMarkings: Q encounters Chakotay. "Facial art -- how ''wilderness'' of you!"


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* [[DeusExMachina Q Ex Machina]]: Q offers to instantly take Voyager back to Earth if Janeway rules in his favour.
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->''Will you send him to prison for eternity or will you assist in his suicide plan? That's a toughie, but that's why they made you captain, isn't it?''

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* CourtroomAntic: Despite Janeway warning against this at the start of proceedings, they happen anyway with two omnipotent {{Large Ham}}s involved.

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-->'''Quinn:''' You mustn't think of us as omnipotent, no matter what The Continuum would like you to believe. You and your ship seem incredibly powerful to lifeforms without your technological expertise! It's no different with us; we may appear omnipotent to you, but believe me, we're not.
* CourtroomAntic: Despite Janeway warning against this at the start of proceedings, they happen anyway it's inevitable with two omnipotent {{Large Ham}}s involved.

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* FormerTeenRebel

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* FormerTeenRebelFormerTeenRebel: Q's GreatGazoo behaviour in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' is explained as him rebelling against ennui of immortality. Quinn even says his rebellion was inspired by Q's actions.

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* [[InadvertentEntranceCue Inadvertent Entrance Q]]: Quinn needs an expert on humans. The Q we know from TNG appears.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Starship]]: Voyager is shrunk to the subatomic level, then becomes a Christmas tree decoration.
* LadyLand: Quinn temporarily makes all the male crewmembers disappear, making Q think the ship is an AmazonBrigade.

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* [[InadvertentEntranceCue Inadvertent Entrance Q]]: Quinn needs an expert on humans. The Q we know from TNG ST:TNG appears.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Starship]]: Voyager is shrunk to the subatomic level, then becomes a Christmas tree decoration.
decoration in Quinn's effort to hide from Q.
* LadyLand: Quinn temporarily makes all the male crewmembers disappear, making Q think the ship Voyager is an AmazonBrigade.



* MeaningfulEcho: Janeway's "Bring them back now!" Sisko said the same thing in the sole Q episode in ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''.
* [[OneSteveLimit One Q Limit]]: Averted; when a Q is first beamed aboard, Janeway assumes he's the troublemaker who gave Captain Picard such a hard time. After becoming mortal he takes the name of Quinn.
* NeverTrustATitle: No "Q" in title.
* NoodleIncident: Q claims that Quinn accidentally started a hundred year war between the Romulans and Vulcans.

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* MeaningfulEcho: Janeway's "Bring them back now!" Sisko said the same thing in the sole Q episode in of ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''.
* [[OneSteveLimit One Q Limit]]: Averted; when a Q is first beamed aboard, Janeway assumes he's the troublemaker who gave Captain Picard such a hard time. After becoming mortal he When the Creator/JohnDeLancie Q appears, both Q's are referred to as Q (even when ''three'' Q's are in the room!) Q eventually takes the name of Quinn.
Quinn after becoming mortal.
* NeverTrustATitle: No There is no "Q" in title.
title, despite it being a feature of most (but not all) Q episodes.
* NoodleIncident: Q claims that Quinn accidentally started a hundred year hundred-year war between the Romulans and Vulcans.



* SlouchOfVillainy: Q on the bridge.
* TheUnSmile
* WeWillMeetAgain: Unlike on ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', Q does return.
* WhamLine: "Hello, my name is Q." From someone who isn't Creator/JohnDeLancie.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
* WomenDrivers

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* SlouchOfVillainy: On Voyager's bridge Q slouches on the bridge.
consoles and in front of the viewscreen.
* TheUnSmile
TheUnSmile: Q insists the bored members of the Continuum are happy with their immortal lives; one makes an unconvincing grin.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Unlike on ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', Q does return.
will return in "The Q and the Grey".
* WhamLine: "Hello, my name is Q." From Q" from someone who isn't Creator/JohnDeLancie.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
WhoWantsToLiveForever: The Q Continuum live a boring, empty existence because they've already done, said and visited everything.
* WomenDriversWomenDrivers: Q makes a snide comment that having a woman in charge is why Voyager is 70,000 light years off course.
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* CharacterOverlap: Riker and Q.

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* BadassFingerSnap: Averted with Quinn, who flourishes two fingers instead. May count as GettingCrapPastTheRadar when he does this in Q's face side-on and it looks like he's FlippingTheBird British-style.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: On one occcasion when Quinn does his signature gesture to Q, it looks like he's FlippingTheBird in the two-finger British style.

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* IGaveMyWord

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* IGaveMyWordHeelFaceTurn: At the end of the episode Q provides the poison so Quinn can kill himself, having been convinced by his arguments. As revealed in "The Q and the Grey", he goes on to launch a rebellion inside the Continuum.
* IGaveMyWord: Janeway knows Q will stick by any agreement he's made.
-->'''Q:''' How would you know if I intended to keep my word?
-->'''Janeway:''' Based on my research, you have been many things. A rude, interfering, inconsiderate, sadistic--
-->'''Q:''' You've made your point.
JANEWAY: Pest. And, oh yes, you introduced us to the Borg, thank you very much. But one thing you have never been is a liar.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Q is openly sexist.

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* NoodleIncident: Q claims that Quinn accidentally started a hundred year war between the Romulans and Vulcans.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Apart from his usual disdain for petty bipeds, Q is openly sexist.makes several sexist remarks.



* SadisticChoice

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* SadisticChoiceSadisticChoice: If Janeway rules in Q's favour, Quinn will be confined for eternity in a most uncomfortable prison. If she rules in favour of Quinn, he will commit suicide.

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* BedmateReveal

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* BedmateRevealBedmateReveal: [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E14Tapestry As per tradition]], Q appears in the captain's bed, this time wearing a silly nightcap. [[HomoeroticSubtext Unlike Picard]], Janeway immediately jumps out of bed and puts on a dressing gown. "GetOut!"

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'''JANEWAY:''' You?\\

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'''JANEWAY:''' You?\\'''Janeway:''' [[OhCrap You?]]\\

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* AndIMustScream
* BadassDecay: Despite being friends with Kate Mulgrew, Creator/JohnDeLancie wasn't happy over how his character had changed from Q helping humanity and annoying Picard, to chasing Janeway who always seems to be helping the Continuum.

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* AndIMustScream
* BadassDecay: Despite being friends with Kate Mulgrew, Creator/JohnDeLancie wasn't happy over how
AndIMustScream: Quinn's prison inside the comet is cramped, cold, and he's going to stay there for eternity or until he relents his character had changed from Q helping humanity and annoying Picard, to chasing Janeway who always seems to be helping the Continuum.position.


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* BourgeoisBohemian: Q tells Marty Ginsberg he will eventually marry the cute hippy chick he met on the way to Woodstock and become a successful orthodontist, settled in Scarsdale with four kids.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Quinn appears in a Starfleet uniform. Then the Continuum appears as a run down farm.

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: When Quinn appears in is first beamed on board Voyager, he's already wearing a Starfleet uniform. Then the Continuum appears as a run down farm.uniform.



* AllJustADream



* YourFavourite
* YouHaveToBelieveMe

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* YourFavourite
YourFavourite: In gratitude for Captain Janeway freeing him, Quinn magics up a dinner of Welsh rarebit "like your grandfather used to make."
-->'''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Neelix]]:''' Rabbit? She never told me she likes rabbits. What is a rabbit anyway? Is this some new chef she's interviewing?
* YouHaveToBelieveMeYouHaveToBelieveMe: Q beams a spotlight operator from the Woodstock festival and Sir Issac Newton to give testimony. Janeway tries to explain to them what is happening.
-->'''JANEWAY:''' Consider for a moment that it might be possible to travel forward in time, say to the twenty fourth century, onto a starship seventy five thousand light years from Earth.
-->''(Blank looks.)''
-->'''JANEWAY:''' [[AllJustADream You're having a very strange dream]].

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* MisleadingTitle: No "Q" in title.



* NeverTrustATitle

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* NeverTrustATitleNeverTrustATitle: No "Q" in title.

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* TheNotSmile


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* FamousLastWords: Quinn's first efforts aren't very impressive, despite having centuries to rehearse. He does better the second time round.

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* FamousLastWords: Quinn's first efforts [[FailedAttemptAtDrama aren't very impressive, impressive]], despite having centuries to rehearse. He does better the second time round.



* FamousLastWords: Quinn thinks up a good speech, but it becomes a FailedAttemptAtDrama.



* [[OneSteveLimit One Q Limit]]: Averted; when Quinn introduces himself as Q, Janeway assumes he's the troublemaker who gave Captain Picard such a hard time.

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* [[OneSteveLimit One Q Limit]]: Averted; when Quinn introduces himself as Q, a Q is first beamed aboard, Janeway assumes he's the troublemaker who gave Captain Picard such a hard time.time. After becoming mortal he takes the name of Quinn.



* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the case of the Q who would near the end of the episode be called Quinn.

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the case of the Q who would near the end of the episode be called Quinn.WhoWantsToLiveForever
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* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Quin casually walks through the forcefield around the transporter pad.

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* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Quin Quinn casually walks through the forcefield around the transporter pad.
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* AllJustADream
* AndIMustScream



* DeusExMachina: Q offers to instantly take Voyager back to Earth if Janeway rules in his favour.



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
-->'''Q:''' Without Q there would have been no William T. Riker at all, and I would have lost at least a dozen really good opportunities to insult him over the years. Oh, and lest I forget, without Q, the Borg would have assimilated the Federation.



* ShapedLikeItself
-->'''Q:''' This is your own doing. You could live a perfectly normal life if you were simply willing to live a perfectly normal life.



* YourFavourite

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* YourFavouriteYourFavourite
* YouHaveToBelieveMe

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* CallBack



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The ethics of assisted suicide.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
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The ethics of assisted suicide.suicide.
** Quinn uses hemlock to poison himself, as did the philosopher Socrates.


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* DoubleEntendre
-->'''Q:''' May I see you in your chambers, Captain?\\
'''JANEWAY:''' You've [[BedmateReveal been in my chambers]] enough for one visit, sir.
* DrivenToSuicide
* FacePalm: A double version [[ActingForTwo by both Q's]].
* FamousLastWords: Quinn's first efforts aren't very impressive, despite having centuries to rehearse. He does better the second time round.


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* IGaveMyWord


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* WeWillMeetAgain: Unlike on ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'', Q does return.

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* TheAlcatraz: The comet

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* TheAlcatraz: The cometcomet where Quinn has been imprisoned for over 300 years.
* BadassDecay: Despite being friends with Kate Mulgrew, Creator/JohnDeLancie wasn't happy over how his character had changed from Q helping humanity and annoying Picard, to chasing Janeway who always seems to be helping the Continuum.
* BaitAndSwitchComment
-->'''Q:''' I'll take you home. Before you know it, you'll be scampering across the meadow with your little puppies, the grass beneath your bare feet. A man, coming over the hill way in the distance, waves to you. You run to be in his arms and as you get closer you see that it's...me!\\
'''JANEWAY:''' You?\\
'''Q:''' Forget Mark. I know how to show a girl a good time.
* BedmateReveal
* BirdsOfAFeather: Quinn was inspired to rebel against the Continuum by Q's disobedience.


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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The ethics of assisted suicide.


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* FirstNameBasis: Q of course refers to Captain Janeway as "Kathy".
* FormerTeenRebel
-->'''Q:''' My penance has ended. I'm a born again Q. That life is behind me.
* ForWantOfANail
* GetOut: Played straight when Q first turns up in Kathy's bed. Once he starts seriously hitting on her, it's a cold and quiet; "Leave."


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* MisleadingTitle: No "Q" in title.
* TheNotSmile


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* RunningGag: Q hitting on Starfleet captains.
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* WomensDriver

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* WomensDriverWomenDrivers
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* WomenDriver

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* WomenDriverWomensDriver

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith

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* AFormYouAreComfortableWithAbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Quin casually walks through the forcefield around the transporter pad.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Quinn appears in a Starfleet uniform. Then the Continuum appears as a run down farm.
* TheAlcatraz: The comet
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Q calls an expert witness on the Continuum to give testimony. [[ActingForTwo Himself.]]



* ClarkesThirdLaw
* CourtroomAntic: Despite Janeway warning against this at the start of proceedings, they happen anyway with two omnipotent {{Large Ham}}s involved.



* DontCallMeSir:
-->'''Janeway:''' Don't call me Madame Captain!
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: On one occcasion when Quinn does his signature gesture to Q, it looks like he's FlippingTheBird in the two-finger British style.
* HamToHamCombat: Q vs Quinn.
* [[InadvertentEntranceCue Inadvertent Entrance Q]]: Quinn needs an expert on humans. The Q we know from TNG appears.
* [[IncredibleShrinkingMan Incredible Shrinking Starship]]: Voyager is shrunk to the subatomic level, then becomes a Christmas tree decoration.
* FamousLastWords: Quinn thinks up a good speech, but it becomes a FailedAttemptAtDrama.



* MeaningfulEcho: Janeway's "Bring them back now!" Sisko said the same thing in the sole Q episode in ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''.
* [[OneSteveLimit One Q Limit]]: Averted; when Quinn introduces himself as Q, Janeway assumes he's the troublemaker who gave Captain Picard such a hard time.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Q is openly sexist.
* RedAlert: Janeway on hearing the notorious Q is on board.
* SadisticChoice
* SlouchOfVillainy: Q on the bridge.
* WhamLine: "Hello, my name is Q." From someone who isn't Creator/JohnDeLancie.



* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The Q Continuum is depicted in this episode as a old service station in the middle of nowhere so that the humans could understand what it is truly like for Quinn.

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* WomenDriver
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The Q Continuum is depicted in this episode as a old service station in the middle of nowhere so that the humans could understand what it is truly like for Quinn.Quinn.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry
-->'''Janeway:''' The vaunted Q Continuum: "Self-anointed Guardians of The Universe"! How dare you come aboard this ship and endanger this [[MamaBear crew]] with your personal tug-of-war!
-->'''Q:''' Did anyone ever tell you you're angry when you're beautiful?
* YourFavourite
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the case of the Q who would near the end of the episode be called Quinn.

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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In the case of the Q who would near the end of the episode be called Quinn.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The Q Continuum is depicted in this episode as a old service station in the middle of nowhere so that the humans could understand what it is truly like for
Quinn.
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* LadyLand: Q2 temporarily makes all the male crewmembers disappear, making Q think the ship is an AmazonBrigade.

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* LadyLand: Q2 Quinn temporarily makes all the male crewmembers disappear, making Q think the ship is an AmazonBrigade.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith
* TheCameo: Jonathan Frakes as Commander Riker from ST:TNG, called as a witness for the trial.


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* LadyLand: Q2 temporarily makes all the male crewmembers disappear, making Q think the ship is an AmazonBrigade.
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* CourtroomEpisode
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever

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* WhoWantsToLiveForeverWhoWantsToLiveForever: In the case of the Q who would near the end of the episode be called Quinn.
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''Voyager'' encounters a member of the Q Continuum who was trapped within a comet because of his desire of wanting to kill himself. The Q that was encountered by Captain Jean-Luc Picard appears on the scene to argue against the case of his fellow Q's desire for being granted mortality for the sake of self-termination, and although Captain Janeway doesn't want to see that Q end his own life, she nonetheless rules in favor of his being granted mortality when she sees for herself the kind of life he and other members of the Q Continuum are constantly subjected to due to their immortality.
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