I’ve been watching a quite good spy show on Amazon Prime called Patriot. They keep dropping the number 17. Like the spy in over voice is talkng about how he can jump onto a terrace from the roof of a building to gain access to the building because security wise they never planned for anyone to be stupid enough to jump off a 40 foot roof to get in. Then he reveals that he has been trained to do it, knows how and that the only drawback is it may leave him unconscious for up to 17 minutes.
Then in the next episode his father (Terry O’Quinn) in answer to a question about what he learned from an incident said “I guess I learned that a man may need to strike another man in the face 17 times to render him unconscious and I am the kind of person who counts those blows and who’s stomach is turned by them”.
Anyway, it seems they are playing with Q.