Who is more camp, Dr. Smith from Lost in Space or Q from Star Trek TNG?
If by “campy” you mean “irritating,” then Dr Smith by a mile. The Robinsons should have pushed him out an airlock by the end of the second episode. :mad:
Dr. Smith. Not in any way whatsoever even remotely close.
Never fear, Smith is here.
This. And to terentii’s point, I doubt it would have taken two full episodes.
Dr Smith. He’s aggressively campy. He owns it and good for him.
On the subject of Q? He’s doing it with malice aforethought. It irritates Picard and therefore has utility for Q. When he doesn’t need it he can turn it off.
Oh the pain, the pain!
Smith of course.
Now if you’d compared Smith to Adam West’s Batman…
And the Robinson’s didn’t space Smith because they are fundamentally good people. Murdering someone, ever someone as deserving as Smith, is as wrong in 1997 as it is now. Even stranding him to near certain death on some vegetable caveman hippie robot android planet is wrong.
Q was not only a more well-rounded character, but he was used far more effectively in stories. Smith was simply a “I would have gotten away with it, except for those meddling kids” cardboard villain.
Many of us hoped that’s why Major West was in the cast. To take care of the dirty work.
The correct answer is Uncle Arthur.
This x 1000.
Dr Smith is made out of camp. He’s not just a row of tents, he’s a goddamned Boy Scout Jamboree.
Q…occasionally gets a bit showy, but never comes anywhere near Smith’s level.
Q is being deliberately aggravating, showing off, or just screwing with the mortals; that’s not being “campy”, that’s being obnoxious.
Dr Smith is being serious, but he’s a campy character in a campy show so for him being serious* is* being campy. As said, Adam West Batman is a better comparison.
Whereas Trelane (from the TOS episode “The Squire of Gothos”), who may well have been a Q (several non-film Trek sources, including Trek novels, have indicated that he was), was definitely more campy than the John DeLancie Q. 
Well, duh. He was played by Paul Lynde, after all.
:: golf clap ::
Good comes out of Q’s screwing around.