Following up on DS9's exploration into the theme of suicide (s4 e14 "Sons of Mogh") Death Wish gets more philosophical with the subject and stands out to me as a singularly pointed journey into the nature of existence.
This was an episode that played a lot on reruns where I was at as a youth, it is a quiet and pensive episode and for the longest time I had remembered it as belonging to Next Generation --- Janeway's role as arbiter between Qs somehow feels very Jean-Luc, like a lost Next Gen script.
Anyway, Death Wish deliciously sets up a continuing Q ark for Voyager.
Kate Mulgrew is always wonderful but the episode is really about Graham and Delancy --- two Qs at odds but also, in their own way, in love.
Nobody wants to lose a beloved sibling, Worf didn't and neither does Q.
I've seen several reviews comment negatively about the Qs and their presence in Trek but I think that most Q episodes are gold, I love the character and I also love that his episodes are few enough and far between to keep me fond of him.
5/5, an EXCELLENT episode.