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Star Trek: Voyager's Q Return Forgot TNG's Amanda Rogers

• Q forgot about TNG's Amanda Rogers in his Star Trek: Voyager return.
• Rogers disproves Q's claim that no two Q ever conceived a child before himself and Miss Q.
• However, Q may not have counted Rogers as a true Q offspring due to the unique circumstances surrounding her parents and birth.

Q's (John de Lancie) return to Star Trek: Voyager season 3 forgot about Amanda Rogers (Olivia d'Abo) from Star Trek: The Next Generation . Q is one of the most prolific characters in all the Star Trek TV shows , appearing throughout the franchise's 1990s era and even in more recent series like Star Trek: Lower Decks or Star Trek: Picard . Although Q first made a name for himself on TNG , his appearances on Voyager fleshed out more of his character and provided some never-before-seen backstory for the Q Continuum.

Much of this backstory was seen in Q's first two appearances on Voyager . In particular, season 3, episode 11, "The Q and the Grey" dealt with the consequences of the events of Q's first Voyager cameo in season 2. The episode's premise revolved around Q's attempts to get Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) to mate with him to create a child that would stop the Q Civil War. Eventually, Q ended up accomplishing this with Miss Q (Suzie Plakson), but made a mistake when he commented that two Q had never reproduced before .

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Q forgot about tng’s amanda rogers in his star trek: voyager return, q met rogers on star trek: the next generation.

Amanda Rogers from Star Trek: TNG proves that Q was incorrect about no two Q having a child before "The Q and the Grey." Rogers was a female Q who became an intern on the USS Enterprise-D during TNG season 6, episode 6, "True Q." Initially, Rogers had no idea she was a Q, as she had been raised by human parents and had limited powers. However, it was Q himself who revealed her true parentage and the fact that the Continuum had been keeping an eye on Rogers since her birth.

It seems strange then that Q would forget about Rogers' existence during his appearance on Voyager . Although she was adopted by humans as a baby, Rogers was born to two Q parents, meaning that Q and Miss Q's child wasn't actually the first Continuum member to be conceived from the union of two Q . Q seemed extraordinarily proud of his child by the end of the episode, so it is possible he was simply gloating or exaggerating the baby's importance. However, there are some concrete reasons why Q might not consider Amanda Rogers a real Q child.

Why Q Doesn't Count Amanda Rogers As A Q Offspring

Amanda was a unique case in the q continuum.

Although both of Rogers' parents were fully Q, her backstory in "True Q" revealed that her parents assumed human form to live on Earth, where she was also supposedly conceived under human means. This differs from how two Q in fully Q form conceive a child, as Q and Miss Q demonstrated in "The Q and the Grey." Therefore, it is possible that Q didn't count Amanda Rogers as a child conceived by members of the Continuum because of the circumstances of her birth . Even her upbringing as a human could have excluded her from his consideration.

However, the fact that Rogers not only manifested full Q powers but also eventually chose to join the Continuum undoubtedly made her a Q. Whether Q considered her a true member of his species, he was wrong in his assessment of his son being the first Continuum member conceived by Q parents. Unfortunately, Star Trek: Voyager missed out on the opportunity for a good TNG tie-in by not directly referencing Amanda Rogers during "The Q and the Grey," which is too bad considering she was a fascinating character who might have provided some nuance to the episode.

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Star Trek: Voyager

The fifth entry in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Voyager, is a sci-fi series that sees the crew of the USS Voyager on a long journey back to their home after finding themselves stranded at the far ends of the Milky Way Galaxy. Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway, the series follows the crew as they embark through truly uncharted areas of space, with new species, friends, foes, and mysteries to solve as they wrestle with the politics of a crew in a situation they've never faced before. 

Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Release Date May 23, 1995

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Network UPN

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

Showrunner Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

Rating TV-PG

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Published Nov 11, 2011

An Interview With TNG's Young Q, Olivia d'Abo

Olivia d’Abo earned her place in Star Trek history – and in the hearts and minds of fans, too – with her portrayal of Amanda Rogers in the sixth-season TNG episode “ True Q .” Amanda was the beautiful young woman who, during an internship on the Enterprise, discovered that she was actually a powerful Q. The British actress, who is best known for her roles as Karen on The Wonder Years and Nicole Wallace on Law & Order: Criminal Intent , continues to appear in features, on TV and on stage, and she’s also a respected singer-songwriter. StarTrek.com recently caught up with d’Abo for a wide-ranging interview in which she recounted her “True Q” experience and filled us in on her current projects, which include We Have Your Husband , a Lifetime TV movie airing tomorrow night, and some new music.

Let's start with Star Trek . First, what did you know about the franchise in general and TNG specifically when you landed your role in "True Q?" D’Abo: I really didn't know anything about the franchise of Star Trek and I wasn't as familiar with The Next Generation as I was with TOS . But I was immediately excited by the endless possibilities creatively and the mystery of getting to explore a role that seemed really unique to me. Ultimately, when I was cast, I considered it a real honor to be working on the continuation of the Star Trek legacy I'd grown up with, but also to work alongside of some of the most seasoned actors in the business. I learned so much from them. As kids, both my brother and I had grown up with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, and from that moment on we got majorly hooked on science-fiction. It had a huge effect on my childhood and not unlike Star Wars it made me more curious about space, other life forms in our galaxy and the wonder of astronomy in general. What intrigued you most about the role of Amanda in "True Q"? D’Abo: Amanda had a vulnerability I related to because she was an orphan and in the episode was clearly at a stage in her life where she had some pretty important choices to make about her future. She had a strength and a wisdom about her. She was searching for the truth and searching for her own sense of truth. Though she was impressionable at times, it was inevitable to me through playing her that through her own self discovery she'd know which choices to make and what path to take. What do you remember of the shoot? Of working on the set and with the other actors, especially Gates McFadden and John de Lancie? D’Abo: I remember everyone being so warm and so kind to me. From the director to the actors down to everyone on the crew, it was an extremely happy group of people who were there to support each other and do their best every day. The sets were absolutely top-notch and made me feel like I was really aboard a real Enterprise spaceship. My favorite features on set were the space doors that would automatically open and close as you entered and exited each room. There was a lot of new dialogue to learn each day, which happens in television, so you just roll with the punches and embrace the changes in the words as they come. A large component in getting cast on the show was that you had to have extensive theater training and an ability to memorize dialogue well and quickly. Luckily I'd just done a play at the Mark Taper Forum and my memorization chops were where they needed to be, which came in handy, especially in my scenes in the lab with Gates. She was so easy, giving and wonderful to work with. I loved her.I really enjoyed the challenge of exploring Amanda's serious side and focusing on experiments while using unusually unfamiliar scientific words to communicate and get my point across. John de Lancie was great to work with. He had tremendous energy and reminded me of Puck from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream . He was wonderfully mischievous, always so excited on set and eager to educate me on the importance of what a true Q represented. He also continually reminded me how Star Trek lives on forever, that it's immortal and so important to so many people all around the world. I wasn't necessarily sure what he meant at the time, but he was right. In some way strange way, for that episode's moment in time, we were contributing something to science fiction history.

How tough a role was Amanda to pull off? She had to think like a human, but have the powers of a Q. D’Abo: She was actually a lot of fun to play and I think I was more interested and challenged by how she dealt with the obstacles she had to overcome in the storyline. I had fun discovering and revealing her inner conflicts and where the possibilities lived inside her. I was also looking for places to have the freedom to play with her curiosity. I definitely made a choice to play her as human as possible. And I made that choice because we all have a great power inside us. Sometimes, others see it in us before we see it in ourselves, so there's a process we must go through to recognize it. I saw Amanda that way. She had great depth, power and potential. That can be scary at times for all of us because our potential for greatness is so vast and expansive that we shy away from it. But hopefully it's what we aspire to claim for ourselves... when we're ready. You've attended a few Star Trek conventions and autograph shows over the years. Why do you think so many people are still eager to talk to you about “True Q” and Amanda? To get your autograph on a picture of you from the episode? D’Abo: Actually I've done very few conventions and only just went to my first Star Trek convention this year (she attended the Creation’s Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this past August), so I'm fairly new at this. I'm not really certain why people are still eager to talk about “True Q” and Amanda, but I've noticed Star Trek fans are very picky about what makes a great episode and “True Q” was extremely well written and portrayed. I feel very I'm very lucky and honored to have played the only female Q in TNG . I've met many fans recently who collect the game cards and have mentioned a Q card can be very valuable because of the character's powers. What question about Amanda and your Trek experience are you most often asked... just in case we didn't ask it? D’Abo: What was it like to kiss Jonathan Frakes? The episode seemed to leave open the possibility of a return engagement. What did the producers tell you at the time? How close did you come to returning in another episode? D’Abo: As far as I knew it was always just going to be one episode. Who knows? Maybe that's what made “True Q” special. By the time we'd shot the episode the series had less than a year to go, so I'm sure they had their storylines set in stone for the following episodes to come. Incidentally, I met a screenwriter at Creation this year, before I went on stage for a Q&A, and she shared a very touching and beautiful story with me. She said that “True Q” inspired her to write a spec script with Amanda in it and that it was that script that started her career as a writer on the following show, DS9 . Hearing that story was the biggest gift I could have received from fulfilling my role as Amanda. Knowing things you do can inspire others to create is very rewarding to me. If you had reprised the character, what would you like to have seen for Amanda? D’Abo: Oh, well, that's hard to say, but probably more of Amanda being mentored by Captain Picard, because of how well he backed her up and guided her in “True Q.” I absolutely loved working with Patrick Stewart, especially in the last scene of “True Q,” where Captain Picard lets Amanda choose. He truly backed her up and protected her to (let her) find her own individual power and sense of purpose. He gave Amanda the opportunity in an urgent situation to save a dying planet. And in return, the situation proves to be the most powerful scene in the episode, as it allows Amanda to use her powers in the most positive way and finally find herself. If there had been a reprise it would have been cool to up the stakes even more and see Picard call upon her to use even more aspects of her intuition and powers to save lives and worlds and work efficiently and effectively in problematic areas or situations that they might have encountered. In addition to Amanda, what other roles from throughout your career do people most like to speak with you about? D’Abo: People really love Nicole Wallace from Law & Order: Criminal Intent . She seems to get under people's skin and people are really curious about her and just what makes her tick. Obviously, The Wonder Years as Karen, as a lot of people grew up with that show. My first film, Conan the Destroyer , because I was so young and it's now considered a classic. Wayne's World 2 because Garthette is the ultimate nerd. The role of Jane in Kicking and Screaming , Greedy , Eureka , Jedi Master Luminara in Clone Wars , Live Nude Girls , and The Last Good Time for indie fans. I'm very fortunate to be able to have the range to play roles I really love and don't get bored of. Luckily, people are still connecting the dots, because the roles have been so diverse. Let's talk current events. You’re also a singer-songwriter and recorded some new music recently, including a duet with Seal. Tell us more about the songs, their titles, where people can get them. How would you describe the sound? D’Abo: I have an awesome album out right now called Not TV that consists of 10 narrative pop songs I've written that are both reflective and introspective in theme. It's available in retail stores now, as well as Amazon.com. The digital version of Not TV will be released on the 22nd of November and available at Amazon.com with two free bonus tracks. The first track is a smoky, sensual duet I wrote that features Seal called “Broken,” and the second track is a song I recorded called "Alright," which appears in the newly released film Waking Madison . Not TV is definitely alternative pop in style with catchy melodies and lyrics and it pays homage to my classic influential Brit rock sensibilities. But it’s also layered with jazz undertones and soulful R&B rhythms. There are some amazing musicians on the album including Wendy Melvoin from Wendy and Lisa, Richie Sambora, Patrick Leonard, and Susie Katayama's incredible string arrangements. My dad (Mike d’Abo) has been a huge influence on me musically, as he was the lead singer of Manfred Mann and has written classic songs such “Build Me Up Buttercup” for The Foundations and “Handbags and Gladrags” for Rod Stewart.The song "Broken" was originally recorded by me on my own and placed as the end-title track song in a movie called Loving Annabelle , directed by Katherine Brooks. Being that the song was so strongly embraced by listeners, the producer and co-writer, Thomas Barquee, and I thought, “Wouldn't it be great to record it as a duet? Seal was the first and only artist I could think of to sing it with me, as we were good friends, supported each other's music and had an already built-in history that's reflected in the song. Luckily, he really loved the song when he heard it. So, not soon after that, we went to his house to record it. It was so effortless to record that we literally got the vocal take in an hour. What I love about the song as a duet is how open and disarming the vocals are and the blending of our voices together. You've completed a TV movie called We Have Your Husband , which will premiere on November 12. Give us a feeling for the story and your role in it. D’Abo: The film is a gripping and suspenseful drama. I think viewers will find it to be quite a roller coaster ride. The cast is great, and though it's a Lifetime movie it's shot like a cool freestyle documentary with a great sense of underlying urgency in most of the scenes. We Have Your Husband is actually a book and a true story that's been aired (as a segment) on Dateline . It’s about a married couple called Jayne and Eduardo Valseca, whose story became a life-altering experience. Jane (Teri Polo) fights to get her husband (Esai Morales) back from kidnappers down in San Miguel. I play the role of Olivia, Teri Polo's bohemian ex-patriot best friend, who's sort of a butterfly. I fly in and out of the mayhem. Olivia is an artistic free spirit who met Jane when she moved down to San Miguel a number of years ago with her husband. In hindsight, through the film my character has a big lesson to learn about herself and where her depth and character lie. What else do you have wrapped or about to start? D’Abo: I'm really excited, as I'm about to guest host Second City on November 12th, which will be fun because I'm getting a chance to do live sketch comedy and play funny characters. I've just come off a high-paced, completely exhilarating run playing the role of Kath in Stan Zimmerman's prestigious theater production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Actors Company Theater. It's been an amazing experience and a rare opportunity to play against type as a frumpy, tragic hilariously funny human being who against all odds figures out how to get exactly what she wants by the end of the play. It's hands-down the most amazing character and arc I've ever played. Plus, I got to wear vintage 60's wardrobe designed by Kevin King. He also made me the most phenomenal fat suit. It really helped me morph into my character and lose myself. Funnily enough, I get pregnant by the second and third acts, so even more padding was made for me to pull that off effectively. The casting was flawless in this production, with Ian Buchanan, Emrhys Cooper and Robin Gammell. We've just won six StageSceneLA Awards… for best comedy production, best comedic performances (including d’Abo’s) and best director. And I just found out today that we've been nominated for 10 BroadwayWorldLA Awards. So it looks like we'll be bringing the play back in the not too distant future, hopefully in both L.A and New York.I've also just recently finished shooting the post-apocalyptic action-thriller film Nuclear Family for Michael Eisner's VUGURU Inc., directed by Kyle Rankin, and Justice League: Doom , a movie for Warner Bros. Animation, portraying both Star Sapphire and Carol Ferris, directed by Andrea Romano. And for all you science-fiction fans, you can catch me on Clone Wars playing Jedi Master Luminara.

To keep track of Olivia d'Abo and her latest projects, visit her official site by clicking HERE .

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The Best Throwaway Joke In The Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks Crossover Makes A Big Fan Theory Canon

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."

One of the more amusing aspects of "Star Trek" is that when a Starfleet captain meets an all-powerful deity, in some cases literal gods, they roll their eyes. "Star Trek" takes place in a post-religious world wherein old faiths have given way to a form of technology-driven benevolent humanism. When Captain Kirk (William Shatner) meets Apollo, the god is waved away as a problem that needs to be solved. When Kirk meets the Mesoamerican deity Kukulkan, he merely explains to the all-powerful serpent that humanity how outgrown the need for gods. When Kirk meets an impish trickster god named Trelane, the Squire of Gothos (William Campbell), he slaps him across the face. 

The same is true of Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart). When Picard meets an equally impish trickster god named Q ( John De Lancie ), he rolls his eyes and declares that humanity is doing just fine without divine intervention. Q may be omnipotent, but he is seen more as a nuisance than a threat. 

"The Squire of Gothos" (January 12, 1967), one of the better episodes of the original "Star Trek" series, depicted the title character as a dandyish aristocrat who was obsessed with Earth's war history. He giggled like a little boy and insisted others listen to his harpsichord. He also seemingly had unlimited power and could bend reality to his will. Q, meanwhile, was first seen in "Encounter at Farpoint," (September 28, 1987) the NextGen pilot. Savvy Trekkies immediately saw the similarities between the two characters, and a retrospective fan theory just as quickly formed — was Trelane a member of the Q species?

Thanks to a tossed-off line of dialogue in "Those Old Scientists," the latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," that might finally be canonically confirmed.

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In "Those Old Scientists," Ensign Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome) have been thrown back in time 120 years, and have immediately become careful about tainting the timeline. Boimler, to undo some damage he incurred, sneaks aboard a shuttlecraft where he is startled by Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome). He exclaims "Holy Q!" and Mariner immediately shushes him. In her usual flip fashion, she then explains that the people in this timeline haven't met Q yet. "They sort of had a Trelane thing going on." 

Trekkies enacted the "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood" meme . If Trelane isn't a Q, the characters within "Star Trek" at least acknowledge the similarities. Surely they have made the same connection theories as fans.

Trekkies, with their instincts toward canonical nitpicking, have long held that Trelane was a Q. At the end of "The Squire of Gothos," Trelane's "parents" appeared to scold him for playing too rough with his human "pets." Trelane whines like a child and vanishes into the ether. His parents — depicted as glimmers of light — apologize to Captain Kirk for their child's behavior. Were they Qs?

In "Encounter at Farpoint," Q explains that he is a member of the Q Continuum, a panoply of ineffable space deities that have existed for an untold amount of time. They can do anything and know everything. Q is also fixated on the darker chapters of Earth's history, pointing out to Picard that humans have a distressing tendency toward war and death. Both Q and Trelane know a lot about tactics and battles and war. Trelane sees such activities as fun hobbies while Q uses them to condemn humanity. Q puts humanity on trial for its crimes, using Picard as the primary defendant. 

Of course, the Q-Trelane connection had already entered the conversation in Peter David's 1994 expanded-universe "Star Trek" novel "Q-Squared." Addressing the fan theory that Trelane was a young Q, David wrote a story wherein Trelane was brought on board the Enterprise-D by an impatient Q, tasked with babysitting him. It seems that Trelane, while still a child in the eyes of the Q Continuum, has somehow become even more powerful than all-powerful. Indeed, Trelane seems to be overseeing three disparate timelines, all laid out in the novel. Trelane dies at the end, but then, he's immortal. His "death" was really just his life being shunted backward in time. Because he tried to oversee three realities at once — three lanes — he was given the nickname tre-lanes, or Trelane. 

"Q-Squared" was quite an event for the Trekkies who keep track of expanded universe lore, as it was considered the first sanctioned confirmation that Trelane and Q were of the same species. It should be explained, however, that while "Star Trek" novels are authorized by Paramount, they are not canonical. 

The authors may have to play within certain parameters — they cannot, for instance, kill off characters or end their novels well outside of the status quo– but their books are still not considered "official" parts of the "Star Trek" timeline. The novels are more or less a playground wherein writers and fans can postulate their theories in a more palpable way. Have you ever wanted to see what happened when Q met Lwaxana Troi ? Read Peter David's "Q-in-Law."  

It's rare that a novel influences Trek canon, but perhaps the long-held fan theory was solidified by Peter David. Thanks to "Strange New Worlds," it's official official. 

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Trelane later escaped from his parents again. The Enterprise again encountered Trelane in 2269 while investigating the disappearance of several vessels. During their second encounter, Trelane had become fascinated with the First World War . Trelane attacked the Enterprise with a space vessel made to resemble an early biplane. Kirk and the Enterprise crew were able to defeat the biplane, but Trelane then subjected several Starfleet officers to a simulation of a period German village. Kirk was again able to disrupt Trelane's power, and Trelane's nanny discovered him and took him away. ( TOS video game : Judgment Rites )

Years later, Trelane appeared again. Kirk told Trelane he had no interest in any more of Trelane's war games. However, Trelane revealed he was interested in romantic conquests now, which Kirk was quite familiar with. Effectively holding the Enterprise hostage and giving Kirk a brief but first hand reminder of Gothos ' deadly atmosphere, Kirk was first made to try and charm a random woman at a bar (and nearly getting killed because the woman was already taken).

Trelane also subjected Kirk to a hallucination of the Enterprise crew (in particular Spock ) into trying to kill Kirk in an attempt to appease Trelane's threats.

Taking a unintended hint from Kirk, Trelane switched tactics and instead made Kirk reunited with an old flame of his, Theresa Ross , but Kirk refused to follow through purely for Trelane's amusement. Punching Trelane in the face and knocking him down, Kirk called him " a boy in a man's body. "

Trelane chastised Kirk for thinking Kirk was the only one to have aged in the years since their last encounter.

Kirk having had enough of Trelane's games set the Enterprise for auto-destruct, Spock figuring the explosion would be enough to kill even Trelane. Trelane in a tantrum destroyed the part of the ship's computer responsible for the self-destruct declaring no one would destroy the Enterprise but him. Trelane revealed all he wanted was Kirk's advice and example on how to handle the ladies. Uhura then plays a part, pretending to want to give Trelane more hands on advice on the subject.

A good deal of this turned out to be delaying tactics on part of the crew, having noticed Trelane having repeatedly moved the ship when a powerful energy signature neared. The signature turns out to be a female of Trelane's species, Valedsia . Kirk was amused at Trelane's cowering at her presence. Kirk told them both to leave his ship at once, and the Valedsia was more than willing to comply with this, dragging off Trelane eagerly and happily as Trelane begged Kirk for help. McCoy found it interesting that coming from a race as advanced as them " they wanted advice on the birds and the bees. " Spock noted that the more advanced the civilization, the more arrogant its youth. ( TOS comic : " A Little Man-to-Man Talk ")

After swapping minds with an alternate version of himself , Kirk initially assumed he was experiencing another of Trelane's games much to Pavel Chekov 's confusion. ( TOS - Connection comic : " Part 1 ")

In the 24th century , the crew of the USS Enterprise -D encountered Trelane, and finally learned that he was a member of the Q Continuum . After Trelane acquired control of the Heart of the Storm, a part of the fundamental structure of the universe, capable of granting Trelane power over the very structure of chaos itself, he began to collapse three alternate timelines together for little more than the sake of it, driving an alternate version of Jack Crusher insane by revealing that he was the only version of himself left in the multiverse, as well as dispersing Q across the universe after sealing the Q Continuum away from the rest of reality. However, Q was able to piece himself back together over the millennia thanks to a signal sent out by his future self, with the result that, when he 'caught up' with Trelane in the present, his powers were intact enough for him to protect Captain Jean-Luc Picard and some of his crew from the insanity that would have been caused by Trelane's manipulation of reality. With the aid of Commander Riker , Lieutenant Worf and an alternate version of Lieutenant Commander Natasha Yar , Picard was able to teleport down to the planet Terminus - an artificial creation made to serve as a focus for Trelane's game- and confront Trelane in a sword-fight using a sword that was really Q's essence, Picard exploiting Trelane's overconfidence and limited practical knowledge of swordfighting to stab him in the chest, allowing Q-in-the-sword to disrupt Trelane's connection to the Heart of the Storm and disperse him into nothing, simultaneously restoring Q's powers. As he restored reality to normal, Q implied in a conversation with Picard that Trelane may have been his own illegitimate son, but his mother's high status in the Continuum meant that any relationship between her and Q would have been scandalous at best, and Picard respected Q's desire to let the matter drop. ( TNG novel : Q-Squared )

In early 2372 , Trelane began playing a strange game of chess with Q, using the crews of two starships Enterprise as pawns. As each superbeing was convinced that the captain he was used to dealing with was superior (Kirk for Trelane and Picard for Q), they switched the captains' places, allowing Kirk to take command of the brand-new USS Enterprise -E on the day of its launch, while Picard had to assume command of the original Enterprise during a Klingon attack. Both captains adapted to their new situations, and were able to work together to overcome Trelane and Q. ( ST - Unlimited comic : " An Infinite Jest ")

In 2379 , when the Q Continuum had launched a preemptive attack on the Organians and the Metrons , Trelane joined with Q in commanding the armies. When Jean-Luc Picard protested the damage caused by the God War, Q collected Picard's crew, along with three others, to serve as proxies armies, James Kirk acting as Trelane's champion. Being allowed to choose the second challenge, Trelane pit the crews against a Doomsday machine . After a disastrous challenge with the Prophets , the Continuum told Q to end things quickly, Trelane choosing the next challenge as collecting a Borg Queen . After the crews had been sent to collect an omega molecule , they rebelled against the contest, aided by Amanda Rogers . Eagerly, Trelane met their challenge before Q2 ended things peacefully, a peace treaty being drafted between the Q, the Organians, and the Metrons. ( TNG - The Q Conflict comics : " Issue 1 ", " Issue 2 ", " Issue 3 ", " Issue 4 ", " Issue 5 ", " Issue 6 ")

Appearance and references [ ]

• TOS comic : " A Little Man-to-Man Talk "
• ST - Unlimited comic : " An Infinite Jest "
• ST comic : " Who's Who in Star Trek, Issue 1 "

Portrayal [ ]

• Trelane was played by William Campbell in "The Squire of Gothos". Campbell voiced the character in Judgment Rites .

External links [ ]

• Trelane article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Trelane article at Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia.
• Trelane article at Star Trek Expanded Universe wiki , the wiki for fan-authored Star Trek .
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Trelane was a puckish , childlike alien who introduced himself to several USS Enterprise crew members in 2267 . That year, the Enterprise was en route to the Beta VI colony to deliver supplies when it encountered Gothos , a previously unknown planet , which was the homeworld (or rather, playground) of the powerful alien Trelane. ( TOS : " The Squire of Gothos ")

• 1.1 Abduction and greetings
• 1.2 Description
• 1.3 First encounter
• 1.4 Second encounter
• 1.5 Third encounter
• 3.1 Background information
• 3.2 Apocrypha
• 3.3 External links

History [ ]

Abduction and greetings [ ].

Trelane first transported Sulu , and then Kirk , from the bridge of the starship to a fortified manor he had constructed on Gothos. Enterprise assumed orbit around Gothos and swept the planet for signs of their missing crew. After four hours of fruitless searching from above, they received a message from an unidentified source (actually Trelane) and decided to send a landing party consisting of DeSalle , Jaeger , and McCoy . Expecting hostile conditions, they were surprised to find an Earth -like oasis instead. There, the landing party discovered Trelane's home, and within it, the two missing officers – and Trelane himself.

Description [ ]

Trelane, referring to himself as a retired general and being willing to accept the title " squire ", wore a blue tailcoat over a white frilled shirt and green riding pants with black boots. These clothes, along with his foppish mannerisms, were intended to suggest what he believed conditions on Earth to be at the time. In fact, he was viewing an image of Earth approximately four-and-a-half centuries out of date, perhaps a consequence of the fact he was over nine hundred light years away. He also attempts to impress two of the Human "guests" by addressing them in the "ethnic" language based on their surnames: Jaeger ( German ), DeSalle ( French ); to Sulu he paraphrases a Japanese greeting in English .

First encounter [ ]

The officers were found in a paralyzed state, but were quickly freed by Trelane, who did it with simply a wave of his hand . This was the first evidence of his super- humanoid abilities; there would be others. Trelane was initially quite friendly, but made it clear that his were the rules to be followed, and that the landing party would stay until he chose to let them leave. He made several attempts to ingratiate himself with the landing party, but as his customs were centuries out of date, his attempts served only to amuse the Enterprise crew.

Trelane explained himself and his surroundings by stating that he, as well as some others, had perfected a means by which matter could be converted into energy , and back into matter, at will. When Kirk compared this to the transporter , Trelane dismissed that as a crude example of an infinitely more sophisticated process, elaborating by saying that he was able to restructure matter, essentially the way a replicator does, albeit far more rapidly. In addition, he was able to maintain a field around his planet (or at least in the oasis) that blocked scanning and communications , and was able to confer skills onto others – he taught Uhura to play the harpsichord with a wave of his hand.

Trelane on the bridge of the Enterprise

Unable to obtain a specific lock through Trelane's blocking field, Spock beamed up all lifeforms in a general radius, returning all Enterprise crew to the ship. Trelane did not beam up, suggesting that he was not alive, or at least, not the kind of life the Enterprise 's instruments were designed to detect. Kirk returned to the bridge, ordering the ship to depart – only to find that Trelane had likewise boarded the ship. Within a minute , he had returned the entire bridge crew to his drawing room for a meal.

Second encounter [ ]

During the meal, McCoy noticed that the food and drink had no flavor , while Jaeger commented that a fire in Trelane's fireplace burned brightly, but emitted no heat . These details, and Trelane's error in time, suggested that he was not infallible as he claimed to be, and that he knew of the Earth forms but none of the substance. Kirk and Spock further theorized that some external agency was actually responsible for most of his tricks. Upon noticing that Trelane rarely strayed far from a large wall mirror in his house, Kirk formulated a plan. Choosing to play Trelane's "field-of-honor" game , he tricked Trelane into an old-fashioned duel . Instead of shooting Trelane in the duel, Kirk shot the mirror – which exploded spectacularly. Deprived of his support mechanisms, Trelane was unable to prevent the Enterprise crew from departing, but swore they were all dead men, Captain Kirk especially. The ship departed quickly, but Trelane quickly proved to have other mediums of instrumentality at his command – these proved to be powerful enough to move his planet and intercept the Enterprise no matter what course it took to attempt to evade Gothos, convincing Kirk himself to return to Gothos for what might be a final confrontation.

Third encounter [ ]

Trelane as a judge

Back on Gothos, Kirk saw that Trelane had altered the setting, so that he was now a judge determined to sentence Kirk for the crimes of treason against a superior authority, conspiracy , and the attempt to foment insurrection , subsequently sentencing Kirk to death by hanging. The ease in which Trelane progressed from capturing Kirk, trying him in court, and sentencing to death appeared to be all too easy for Trelane, and Kirk seized on this, suggesting that what Trelane really wanted was a challenge. Kirk slyly talked Trelane into a sword fight , with the stakes being that if Kirk won Trelane would let the ship go; and if Kirk lost, he would die.

Trelane hunted Kirk for a time, using his powers to evade Kirk's attacks and finally trapping Kirk by making bars suddenly appear, cutting off Kirk's escape, but even then, a defiant Kirk refused to cooperate, seizing Trelane's sword and breaking it over his knee, an act which drove Trelane into a rage. Kirk told Trelane he had a lot to learn about winning, and, in fact, had a lot to learn about everything, and he twice slapped Trelane across the face. Trelane accused Kirk of cheating, and not playing the game right, and he'll show him.

Just then, Trelane's parents, manifesting as two glowing, pulsating green blobs, appeared in front of a treetop. Kirk listened to Trelane's argument with his parents, and he realized that Trelane was really a spoiled child, and his parents told him he was "disobedient and cruel." They told him several times to come along, but he kept refusing. Trelane also complained about never having any fun, and his parents told him to stop that nonsense at once, or he would not be permitted to make any more planets. After his parents took him away, they apologized to Kirk. He asked them: "Who are you? Who is Trelane?" They would not answer his questions, but they told him that he must forgive their child, and that the fault was theirs for indulging him too much, and he will be punished. They also told Kirk that they would not have allowed him to intercept the Enterprise had they realized how vulnerable Humans were. They promised to maintain his life-support conditions until he had returned to his ship, and to please accept their apologies.( TOS : " The Squire of Gothos ")

After being transported back in time from 2381 to 2259 , Brad Boimler exclaimed " Holy Q! " from being startled by Beckett Mariner in a USS Enterprise shuttlecraft . Mariner immediately shushed him, as the people of that era had yet to meet Q and were instead only familiar with the similarly-natured Trelane. ( SNW : " Those Old Scientists ")

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Background information [ ].

Trelane was played by William Campbell , who later appeared as Koloth .

In a story outline for "The Squire of Gothos", this character wasn't yet named and was instead commonly referred to as "the Squire". He was initially described as "Byronically-handsome." In the writer's first draft of the episode's script , the now-named Trelane was described as " a slender, ringlet-haired figure [….] He is dressed in the breech-clouts and silver-buckled elegance of a military man of the period [….] Trelane is a pale, dandified, Byronically-handsome man [….] When he speaks, his voice has a kind of stilted aristocratic accent. " In later drafts of the script (from the first draft to the final draft), he was instead described as "a tall, dashing-looking figure" and "a D'Artagnan-like, Byronically-handsome man." The same later drafts of the teleplay went on to say, " When he speaks, his voice has a stilted aristocratic accent, delivered with a kind of swashbuckling elegance. " However, these script drafts retained the statement, " He is dressed in the breech-clouts and silver-buckled elegance of a military man of the period. "

After asking his agent to arrange for him to play a role in Star Trek: The Original Series , William Campbell was offered the part of Trelane during a call with Gene Roddenberry , with whom Campbell was not yet familiar. In retrospect, the actor stated, " When I got the call, he said to me, 'I've got a great part for you. Bill, I know your work,' and I said, 'Well, what is the part?' He said, 'Well, there are a lot of people who don't believe you can do this character.' He said, 'It's a part of a… kind of an English fop.' " [1]

As it turned out, William Campbell thoroughly appreciated the role of Trelane. " He was a fantastic character, " enthused Campbell. " It was very easy for any actor who'd had any training to play the Squire of Gothos. I never stated I was the only one that could do it. I thought of any number of actors that I would emulate [and] that would be in back of my mind that would play these types of characters. The character was so well written and, of course, it was the show . When you're doing something like that, you have to remember that you're wearing the clothes of the period, so you have to have a kind of a… I took a thing once, I remember, at the theater wing, called 'Styles of Acting', where you'd wear these kinds of costumes, and that's when my training came in handy. And it was just a great role. I mean, it was hard to lose on that role! Now, if you were really bad, it could cause you irreparable harm, but it was just a great part. I mean, it was sensational. I'll never forget it. " [2]

William Campbell initially complained about the judge's wig that Trelane was to wear in one particular scene, as it was originally an extremely curly and full French period wig. Campbell not only pointed out that the wig wasn't the right one but also admitted that the choice of wig would affect his performance. Gene Coon agreed that he was right about thinking the wig needed to be the right kind, so it was corrected thereafter. [3]

John de Lancie has speculated that Trelane may have been the basis for the character of Q . De Lancie pointed out, " The character of Trelane has a lot of characteristics that are very much like Q. " [4]

The costume worn by Campbell as Trelane was rented from the Western Costume company. Almost two weeks after it was seen worn by Campbell on Star Trek , the same costume appeared in the Gilligan's Island third season episode "Lovey's Secret Admirer" worn by actor Jim Backus. It was also seen being worn by David Crosby in a promotional photo of the band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. A short time later, it was again re-used and worn by actor Michael Nesmith in The Monkees episode "The Prince and the Pauper". [5]

Apocrypha [ ]

Trelane makes an appearance in the CD-ROM game Star Trek: Judgment Rites , having pushed his interest forward to the time of World War I and calling himself the "Baron of Gothos". While the Enterprise is in search of several missing starships, he attacks in a Fokker Dr.I triplane fighter, and when defeated, sends Kirk, Spock, and McCoy to a replica of a World War I-era German town named "Gothos". Kirk and his party must move through the artificial town, populated by brainwashed crewmen from captured Federation vessels, in search of the "power objects" that give Trelane his abilities, including a soldier's locket , a clock in a small shop, a school chalkboard, and the triplane fighter. When they were destroyed, Kirk and his party faced Trelane himself. Trelane is revealed to have collected the starships and mounted them in bottles above a fireplace. Depending on the course of action the player takes, either Kirk convinces Trelane that war is nothing that should be emulated romantically , or Trelane's babysitter will arrive and spirit him away.

In the Peter David novel Q-Squared , Trelane is revealed to be a member of the Q Continuum , with Q being assigned as his mentor. The previous encounter on Gothos with the original Enterprise crew was revealed to have been set up for Trelane to test his growing powers (the machinery in his house being a sort of "training wheels" to help him focus his Q energy). In the book, Trelane is able to tap into "The Heart of The Storm", the theoretical and literal center of the universe , where chaos exists; doing so gives Trelane more power than the entire Continuum, allowing him to close it off and play with the universe as he pleases. Trelane then manipulates three different tracks of the USS Enterprise -D timeline – including the canon timeline, a variation of the war timeline depicted in TNG : " Yesterday's Enterprise ", and a timeline where Jack R. Crusher is alive and captain of the Enterprise , among other differences – with the ultimate goal of the experiment being the merging of all parallel timelines and the destruction of the multiverse order. Captain Picard , with the help of Q – implied in the text to be Trelane's father, although Picard respects Q's desire not to discuss the matter in depth – manages to stop Trelane by engaging him in a duel with a sword imbued with Q's essence, Trelane's lack of practical sword-fighting experience allowing Picard to stab Trelane so that Q can penetrate his defenses and disrupt his powers, though the experience reduces Trelane to a speck of his former existence which is then recycled in time and causes Trelane's birth, making his entire existence one continuous loop. His name "Trelane" is taken from the "Three Lanes" of time which he had tried to control.

Trelane also appears in the 1993 DC comic book " A Little Man-to-Man Talk ", and the Marvel Comics Star Trek Unlimited 1998 issue, " An Infinite Jest ", in which he and Q play a game with the two main Enterprise crews.

Trelane is mentioned in the fifty-ninth issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing series when Kirk switches minds with his alternate reality counterpart and Kirk initially assumes he was experiencing another of Trelane's games, with a confused Chekov asking who Trelane is.

Trelane appears in the miniseries Star Trek: The Q Conflict , where he is one of four higher powers competing against each other as part of Q's latest contest with higher-dimensional beings (the other players being the Organians and the Metrons ), Trelane and Q choosing to settle their contest by selecting the four crews and pitting them against each other in contests, with Kirk, Picard, Sisko, and Janeway commanding the Enterprise , the Enterprise -E, the Defiant , and Voyager while their senior staff are 'mixed up' between the ships. Although the crews refuse to actually fight each other when Trelane tries to propose a battle between the four ships as part of the contest, when Trelane initially appears to accept the alternative of a complex version of "capture the flag", he then changes the game by adding a planet killer to the event, forcing the four ships to join forces to stop it.

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Original air date: October 26, 1992

A young intern named Amanda Rogers boards the Enterprise while they're trying to alleviate the ecological woes of Tagra IV. As Riker leads her to her quarters, she wishes her three puppies were here as she makes puppy-dog eyes at the Commander...and when Riker leaves, three puppies appear!

The next day, we get more of Amanda's backstory: She's an orphan, her parents having been killed in an accident when she was young. Then, when she goes to the cargo bay, she sees a container fall right at Riker's head! But she moves her hand and the thing just barely misses him. Then after Techno Babbling a few solutions for Tagra IV's environmental troubles, the warp core breaches unexpectedly, as foreshadowed in the previous episode. As the core explodes, Amanda comes in to save the day! But how?

An A comes in the form of Q, who tells a stunned command staff that Amanda is a member of the Q Continuum. Her parents weren't human, but actually Q who decided to live like disgusting humans , including the abominably disgusting act of mating. The Continuum was unsure whether this foul act would beget an offspring with Q powers, so they sent Q to oversee her and make sure she doesn't destroy the multiverse with her newfound powers. He wants to take Amanda back to the Continuum for study, but she objects and throws him across the room. Picard suggests that he not do things like walk through a wall and inspect her like a human would inspect a bacteria, then tells Data after he leaves to look into her parents' "accident." Meanwhile, Q's shadow asks him for a progress report. He tells the Q he may have to "terminate the girl," but he may not.

Dr. Crusher convinces Amanda to talk to Q again. Amanda doesn't want anyone on board to treat her any differently from any other member of the crew now that she's a Q. Q takes a more conversational tack, telling her that the Q are indeed omnipotent, and she can do anything she wants, like see her actual parents again or speed up the process of the slow experiment Crusher has her doing. When Crusher complains, Q turns her into a barking dog, but Amanda changes her back.

Once again trying to alleviate her concerns, Q gives Amanda more Q lessons by playing Hide and Seek around the ship using teleportation. Q hides in the warp core and then on the outer hull of the ship. Amanda starts to appreciate the wonders that her powers make her capable of. Meanwhile, Data informs Picard that Amanda's parents were killed by a Suspiciously Specific Tornado, one that shouldn't have even happened thanks to the Federation's all-powerful weather control machine. It suddenly appeared over the Rogers home, demolished just that one building, and then vanished.

Later, Amanda's eating lunch in Ten-Forward when she sees Riker again, and whisks herself and Riker to a romantic gazebo. Unfortunately, this does nothing to woo Riker until she manipulates his mind to love her. But, of course, the artificial love proves unsatisfying, and Amanda puts him back the way he was.

Meantime, Q is summoned to Picard's ready room, where Picard berates him from hiding the truth from Amanda. Q admits that the tornado was the Q's doing. They let Amanda survive because she was deemed an innocent in all this, but now Q must determine if she's fully Q or some sort of human/Q hybrid. If she's not fully Q, she'll be fully dead.

On Tagra IV, Geordi, Riker, and the Tagrans have whipped up some Techno Babble that might work in their situation, and are going down to fix everything, just as Picard tells Amanda that the Q might have to kill her. Q shows up and says the Q are willing to make a deal: She can live as a human, but only if she agrees to never use her powers. She immediately chooses to live as a human, though Q warns her that it won't be as easy as she assumes.

Cue Tagra IV blowing up. Picard immediately accuses Q of rigging this catastrophe as a test, but Q pleads innocence. Needless to say, Amanda uses her newfound powers and saves the day. More than, in fact: she completely restores Tagra IV's ecosystem to peak condition. One crisis averted, another so very, very not. Q says he knew she would do it, and now she has to come with him. Amanda decides to accept her new status as a Q and go with them. And so, with a heart-felt goodbye to Dr. Crusher and her foster parents, Q whisks her away to the Continuum.

• Badass Adorable : Amanda. She may be new to the whole Q thing, but she proves herself a match for Q.
• Beware the Silly Ones : This is one of those rare times that Q isn't just goofing around being a nuisance but is acting as a direct agent of the Continuum on a mission of great importance. He still acts like his usual irritating self, but the episode is still another reminder of how dangerous it is to associate with a literally omnipotent being.
• Comically Missing the Point : Q explains thats he tampered with the warp drive to get Amanda to use her powers and fix it, before the ship got destroyed. Crusher, very concerned, asks, "What if she hadn't been able to stop it?" Q responds with, "Then I would know she isn't Q."
• The circumstances of the tornado that killed Amanda's parents are initially seen as this. The moment that Data and Picard learn of the exact circumstances of this tornado, they realize what really happened.
• The planetary crisis occurs at a VERY convenient time, immediately after Amanda makes the choice to not use her powers, though averted if one interprets it as the doing of Q or the Continuum despite his denials.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? : When Picard has had enough of Q's proclaiming The Right of a Superior Species , he delivers a Patrick Stewart Speech about how humans display far greater morality than he has ever seen from the Q. Q is impressed.
• Die or Fly : How Q opts to test Amanda. He triggers a warp core breach and disables all the safety mechanisms (not that they ever work anyway) while Amanda is touring main engineering. When the core explodes, Amanda instinctively uses her powers to contain the explosion and restore everything to normal. Q later notes that had she failed to do so then it would have confirmed that she was not a Q. Picard is understandably not amused.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good : While not evil, Q cannot grasp any Q would want to exist as humans.
• Foreshadowing : Picard recalls Q put humanity on trial in " Encounter At Farpoint ". Q states, "The jury is still out on that." A few years later, the trial continues in the Series Finale , " All Good Things... ". Although, in "Q Who", Q said that they'd been exonerated.
• Forgot About His Powers : Variation- Riker himself received and gave up the powers of the Q back in " Hide and Q ", but neither he, Q or anyone on the crew bothers to bring it up or think about how he could probably offer Amanda some insight into her predicament.
• Green Aesop : Amanda wonders why Tagra IV would go to such great lengths to remove pollution from their air rather than just stop polluting it in the first place. The representative of Tagra IV has a horrible hacking cough and wears an inhaler around his neck.
• Hostile Weather : The Q used a tornado to execute Amanda's parents for refusing to refrain from using their powers. Learning of how her parents died surprised Picard since by the 24th century weather technology would normally dissipate destructive weather phenomena before it could do any damage, and to further emphasize that the tornado was artificial in nature, weather data and eyewitness reports stated it as being small but 3 times as strong as other tornados of its size and that it manifested out of nowhere, destroyed their house and disappeared as quickly as it appeared.
• Human Alien Discovery : Amanda comes aboard the Enterprise as a Starfleet intern to study with Doctor Crusher. During the course of the episode it's revealed that she's actually a Half-Human Hybrid , the product of two members of the Q Continuum conceiving a child while they were living human lives.
• Hypocrite : Picard accuses the Q of this with his talk of morality, pointing out that Q previously put the crew of the Enterprise on trial for the crimes of humanity.
• I Just Want to Be Normal : Amanda would much rather lead a normal human life instead of whatever a Q does.
• I Meant to Do That : After Amanda throws him across the room for creepily observing her face, Q claims he'd been testing her powers. Picard snarks that she had certainly acted like a Q.
• Irony : When Q concludes that Amanda is indeed a Q and not some sort of Q-human hybrid, he gives her the choice of either joining the Continuum, or forswearing all use of her powers and living as a human. She insists she will do the latter, though Q tells her she'll find it hard to resist the temptation. What ends up proving him right, though, is an entirely human quality of Amanda's — her compassion for others, when she realizes she can't let the people on Tagra IV (especially not Riker ) die, and fixes their environmental problem.
• Jerkass Has a Point : How Q justifies to Picard Amanda not actually having a choice in her future. Q even speaks from experience, given his prior punishment by the Continuum. "Do you think it is reasonable for us to allow omnipotent beings to roam free through the universe?"
• Likes Older Men : 18 years old Amanda is very attracted to Riker, who is in his thirties. ( Olivia D Abo was 23, Jonathan Frakes had just turned 40)
• Living Shadow : The Q continuum take this form when talking to Q.
• Q gets a nice one when he talks about how he normally wouldn't care about Amanda or the crew but...
• And when Q is asking if Amanda has used any Q powers, such as spontaneous combustion of someone you don't like. (looks at Picard)
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction : Amanda's realization after making Riker fall in love with her.
• Not Me This Time : Q claims this when Tagra IV is in danger. It's up in the air whether or not he's actually at fault.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping : Olivia d'Abo generally does a good job of hiding her natural British accent, though there are times where it does seem to slip through.
• One appears in the background in a later shot of her quarters, so she must have given in to a bit of temptation.
• Refusal of the Call : Amanda Rogers first decides she wants to be human rather than a member of the Q Continuum. She later changes her mind when she learns she will be killed if she doesn't become a Q.
• Rhyming Title : One of the few rhyming episode titles within the Star Trek franchise, along with "Q Who."
• The Right of a Superior Species : Q says he has the right to judge Humanity due to "superior morality". That earns him a Patrick Stewart Speech .
• Screw You, Elves! : Picard does this with his Patrick Stewart Speech of the episode in response to Q's talk of The Right of a Superior Species saying that Q have power, but they do not display any form of morality. Q is impressed, and interestingly he doesn't fire back, as though on some level he actually agrees with Picard.
• Shout-Out : Amanda's parents were living in Topeka, Kansas, when they were "killed" by a tornado .
• Shut Up Picard: Picard gives a Patrick Stewart Speech on Amanda's behalf, which Q just finds amusing: Q: Jean-Luc, sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours.
• Small Name, Big Ego : Picard makes a case that Q and the rest of the Continuum are this. He doesn't deny their power but points that their claims of morality are hollow based on what he's seen of them.
• Visual Pun : A two-in-one. Q temporarily turns Dr. Crusher into a bitch (a female dog). For bonus points, he turns her into an Irish Setter (Crusher has Irish ancestry).
• Q was last seen with Vash in tow, but no mention was made of her here. "Q-Less" would explain her whereabouts, but that episode wouldn't air for another couple of months. This episode also takes place before that one because O'Brien hasn't yet been transferred.
• Amanda Rogers herself would become this for anyone who saw the Voyager -based Q episodes, all of which dealt with all of the problems tackled in this episode, but no mention of Amanda at all. This topic is eventually addressed in the The Q Continuum trilogy, which affirms that Amanda isn't considered a "true" born Q as she was conceived and born in a purely human manner where Q's son was conceived in the Continuum itself.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human? : Inverted by Q, per usual. He's particularly disgusted that Amanda's parents conceived a child "and in vulgar human fashion became attached to it."
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility : Q reveals that the Q Continuum actually do feel a great amount of responsibility for their powers and won't let an omnipotent being run amok in the universe without any restraint. Even though Q is an obnoxious prankster, he's never been nearly as malevolent as he could be, and he did get stripped of his powers for a while for abusing them.
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Star trek: picard finale’s shocking end-credits scene explained.

Star Trek: Picard season 3's finale contains a post-credits scene that sets up both something old and something new for Star Trek: Legacy.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard's Series Finale - "The Last Generation" The series finale of Star Trek: Picard has a shocking end-credits scene that sets up a continuation of the 25th century in Star Trek: Legacy. Further, the Picard finale end-credits scene sets up a brand-new version of a classic rivalry from Star Trek: The Next Generation , but this time centering on Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) and Q (John de Lancie).

In Star Trek: Picard' s finale, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D managed to save the galaxy from the Borg by rescuing Picard's son, Jack Crusher . After the final destruction of the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) and her Collective, Picard season 3's finale flash forwards one year. As Picard and his legendary crew enjoy themselves in 10 Forward, Jack's newly minted career as a Starfleet Ensign begins aboard the new USS Enterprise-G under the command of Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). But Jack, Seven's new Counselor to the Captain, receives an unwelcome surprise visitor in the Picard finale's end-credits scene.

Star Trek: Picard's End-Credits Scene Explained

In Star Trek: Picard finale's end-credits scene, Jack's unpacking in his quarters is interrupted by Q. Just as he tormented his favorite human, Jean-Luc Picard, the omnipotent being has found a new plaything: Picard's son, Jack, "a chip off the old block." Q admits that Picard's trials in judgment of humanity are over, but Jack's are just beginning. True to his word, Q has finally moved on from Jean-Luc Picard, but the son must now bear the curse of being tormented by Q just as his father did for decades.

As Jack pointed out, Q supposedly died at the end of Star Trek: Picard season 2 . The omnipotent meddler used up the last of his powers to transition into a new state of being after declaring his love for Jean-Luc. But reports of Q's death were greatly exaggerated and his remark that he hoped "the next generation wouldn't think so linearly" indicates Q is not bound to linear time in spite of his death. Now that Q is back, empowered, and singularly focused on Jack Crusher, what began with Captain Picard and Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation 's first episode, "Encounter at Farpoint," now resets anew with Jack Crusher in the end-credits scene of Star Trek: Picard 's finale, "The Last Generation."

How Star Trek: Picard's End-Credits Scene Sets Up Star Trek: Legacy

Star Trek: Picard season 3's ending and end-credits scene are clearly setting up showrunner Terry Matalas' proposed continuation series, which he calls Star Trek: Legacy . At the end of "The Last Generation," the USS Titan-A has been re-christened the USS Enterprise-G, with Captain Seven of Nine and First Officer Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd) leading the Titan's bridge crew, including helmsman Sidney La Forge (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut).

When Jack comes aboard, Seven launches the Enterprise-G on a shakedown cruise. Historically, however, Enterprise shakedowns are rarely free of incidents. Indeed, Q's return means Jack Crusher has a cosmic destiny akin to his father after he has overturned his prior fate to be Vox of Borg. Q's interest in Jack passes the torch from "the last generation" to the "next generation" and gives Q a new male of the Picard bloodline to continually test. Whether Jack becomes as impressive and beloved by Q as Jean-Luc Picard remains to be seen, but Star Trek: Picard' s ending is clearly poised to keep exploring the 25th century - and Q's newfound attachment to Jack Crusher - in Star Trek: Legacy .

Star Trek: Picard season 3 is available to stream on Paramount+.

Star Trek Theory: Q Was In The Original Series

Trekkies can agree that Q (John de Lancie) is one of the most powerful and dangerous foes Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Enterprise-D crew ever faced off against. In a 24th century brimming with Romulans, Ferengi, and even the Borg, Q's abilities and charisma arguably made him more unpredictable than any of the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" villains.

Q first appeared in the 1987 series premiere of "TNG" titled "Encounter at Farpoint," but many "Star Trek" diehards believe the fan theory (via TrekCulture ) that suggests Q is also General Trelane (William Campbell) from "Star Trek: The Original Series." Campbell also guest starred as the Klingon Koloth in Season 2's "The Trouble with Tribbles," but his one and only appearance as Trelane came in "TOS" Season 1 episode "The Squire of Gothos."

"I always believed Trelane was in fact just Q since they both are obsessed with humans and dress in military uniforms," YouTuber @Martin Western wrote in the comments. "And [they] also both love messing with the captain of the Enterprise." Yes, there were many similar traits shared by both Q and Trelane, not the least of which was their God-like powers. And as Q did with Picard, Trelane took a perverse interest in James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew. But, in the end, it was Trelane's parents who put an end to their child's all-powerful tantrum. Whether General Trelane was a Q or the Q, he was a spoiled brat. 

The General Trelane/Q theory

The "Star Trek" theory (via TrekCulture ) posits a Q appeared in "TOS." However, are General Trelane and Q different beings, or are they the same character appearing in two generations of the "Star Trek" franchise? "Q is simply a grown version of Trelane," YouTuber @Martin Western wrote in the comments. "And even the fact that it's only 80 years later when Q appears but he can go to any time he wants and look how he wants to. I also think that the machine Trelane uses isn't the source of his power, but used to cover up his games from his parents as they only appear after it's destroyed."

"As vast as the reach of the Q continuum is, it seems unlikely that two different 'juvenile Q' would be in similar parts of the universe within a hundred years of each other," @JesseCole posted. "Both with the same penchant for dressing up like Napoleon and harassing starships and/or putting their crews on 'trial.'" Jesse Cole goes on to argue that a hundred-year lifespan allows a human being time to mature completely. The YouTuber also compared Q/Trelane's childlike disposition to that of a youngster who likes to play with bugs.

"I also definitely agree that the Q-like character in the original series was a Q," @StaceyNainLab commented. However, it's unclear within the confines of the "Star Trek" universe whether Q and Trelane are one in the same. For that answer, Trekkies need to look outside the box.

There was a Q in their midst

Most concede a member of the Q appeared in "TOS," but whether he's the same Q from "TNG" is debatable. Or is it? "Trelane being a Q isn't a fan theory," YouTuber @marquisofcarrabass explained in the comments (via TrekCulture ). "It's Expanded Universe." The user refers to the non-canonical 1994 novel "Q-Squared" written by Peter David. In that story, the General Trelane/Q debate is answered unequivocally: Q and General Trelane are different.

Trelane is an adolescent who is mentored by the adult Q who first appears in "TNG." Remember, "Q-Squared" isn't canon, but the actor who portrayed Q (John de Lancie) has his own thoughts on the debate. "The character of Trelane has a lot of characteristics that are very much like Q," de Lancie said in an interview (via YouTube ). "That's when it occurred to me that Gene [Roddenberry] had probably called upon that character either consciously or unconsciously."

"It's kind of carrying that baton through time," de Lancie continued. "My contribution is to continue that idea that started very possibly with Trelane — I'm not sure, but very possibly with Trelane. I wouldn't be surprised." It's logical to assume that a Q did terrorize the U.S.S. Enterprise crew under the command of Captain Kirk (Shatner) in "The Squire of Gothos." However, the debate rages, and Trekkies remain divisive on whether or not General Trelane and Q are the same.

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• Goofs After Spock boards the Vulcan ship on board the mining vessel, Kirk is seen walking through some pipes. His Starfleet phaser has switched to a Romulan gun (longer barrel and no lights), before switching back to the Starfleet one again in the next scene. He actually acquires the Romulan gun a few scenes later.

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James T. Kirk : Excuse me?

Spock Prime : How did you find me?

James T. Kirk : Whoa... how do you know my name?

Spock Prime : I have been and always shall be your friend.

James T. Kirk : Wha...

[shakes head]

James T. Kirk : Uh... look... I-I don't know you.

Spock Prime : I am Spock.

James T. Kirk : Bullshit.

• Crazy credits The first part of the closing credits is styled after the opening credits of Star Trek (1966) , where the starship Enterprise blasts off into space as a monologue describes its mission, and then the cast names appear as the famous "Star Trek" theme music plays.
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• May 8, 2009 (United States)
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