There are an awful lot of people on the Trek forums who think Picard and Jack are both somehow the "next evolution of humanity", and are not, it seems, making an X-men joke as I might expect. I have to say I am totally not seeing it. Neither of them is that exceptional. And the idea that Q has some kind of elaborate motivation based on magic powers Picard potentially has seems to utterly fly in the face of Q's behaviour and personality to me. Q liked Picard because Picard was fun to torment (and probably Q knew he was important to the future of the Federation), but I think if Picard was a magic special boy in a sense beyond that, that would have been a turn OFF for Q, not a turn on.