I was just re-watching TNG by chance and I came across this scene.
It's such a fun and wonderful scene and the two actors play very well off of each other making it even better. The writing is on point, snappy but not quipy nor light-heated. Picard isn't kidding around while Q is just as serious for once.
Where is this kind of stuff in nu-Trek? Why cannot the writers make something like this? It's not a hard scene, it's not full of fancy words, nor important plot stuff nor even any big dramatic moments. Just a quite scene to set the stage for what is to come, made all the more intense and enjoyable because we as an audience knows very well what Q is capable of when the mood strikes him.
This is what is missing in nu-Trek. The sense of vere, of actual character interactions done by people whose motives we can understand. Character who make sense and act like real people would...yah I know it's all been said before but for some reason tonight, watching this episode it really drove it home to me.
I feel bad for all those who grow up only knowing nu-Trek.