Listen, you narrow minded child-creature, and listen well, because I don't make a habit of saying things twice:

The Q have always existed. We weren't born, we exist outside of time and space, outside of the binding laws of alternate histories. You may not know that we're there, but I assure you that we are.

On which world. As if I'd be confined to a single miserable planet.

[ Which he is, presently. But that's the heart of the problem--the choice of the word 'world' to describe alternate realities, nothing else. ]