Dunno if any of you guys follow internet or Cartoon trends but recently the cartoon 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' has become a Phenomenon. It was created by Hasbro to bring back the line to re-release their toys and was put on the HUB network and marketed to girls. They hired Lauren Faust to develop and help write the show, she is best known for the cartoons Power Puff girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Animals.
Something unexpected happened though... Faust made the show... good, very good and the demographic changed drastically from little girls to men ages 15 to 30. I am not lieing about that, and I am one of them. I can write a small treatise on why I enjoy the show, things like using source material going back to old slapstick like three stooges or comedy like Benny hill or the marx brothers, taking ques and gags from looney toons and warner brothers, and even going as far as to making references to everything from Tolkien (in the form of designing a dragon central to an episode after his own artwork of Smaug) to Doctor Who.
Now... what brings me to write this here. The second season just started to air, it is three episodes in. The first two episode center around a Villan 'Dischord' who was freed and is seemingly all powerful but just uses his powers to create chaos for his own amusement and to watch everypony attempt to stop him.
Now, any fan of the Star Trek series from The Next Generation on will automatically recognize the voice actor of Dischord as 'John de Lancie' who played the character Q who was Omnipotent and liked to play games and cause chaos just for his own amusement... Basically the whole first two episodes WAS Q in My Little Pony. The kicker of it was at the end they had a kind of royal celebration, rewarding the main 6 ponies for saving the day and well... look for yourselves with a side by side of the source material
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4wh4FnwiAg
I just thought you Sci-fi guys might get a kick out of that.