If Q pops up again today then someone pounce on him and ask if we are on the right track with regards to steganography in the Sarah Silverman photo. It doesn't benefit him or this movement for us to spend several CPU-years trying to crack a message that isn't there.
If someone like him would know, someone who doesn't need to know, then (((they))) have lousy operational security. The NSA would be near guaranteed to pick it up.