The Q are almost all-powerful (but not all-knowing). There seem to be other species which are sort of sub-Q, such as Guinan, who is very knowledgeable, but not all-knowing (consider 'Time's Arrow' where she didn't know if she should tell Picard about the past or not). What about the Traveler, though? According to Memory Alpha, the Traveler:
had the ability to alter space, time and warp fields with the power of his mind. He could phase out of time and dimension and move between planets and starships.
This is pretty close to being all-powerful, so is it possible that The Traveler could become all-powerful i.e. a Q (by 'become' I mean could it evolve into a similar species with the same abilities as the Q without the intervention of the Q?)
Answer
There are beings who are more powerful than or similar in power to the Q, such as the Douwd and Nacene. Novels establish other beings such as (*) that exceed them in power as well. It seems likely that the Traveller, or his species, could certainly evolve to be similar in power to a Q. Q does, after all, believe that humans have the potential to evolve beyond his own species, which seems to have hit an evolutionary dead-end. Why not the Traveller? Even the female Q seems impressed by him.
Of course, the real difference between the Q and many other non-corporeal beings seems to be their existence in a separate continuum of their own. The Traveller may not evolve along those lines, meaning that any answer can only be speculative.
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