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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Death Wish", Q pursues a rogue member of the Continuum, later named Quinn, who has been inadvertently released from his asteroid prison by the crew of that ship, and who seeks asylum on Voyager.
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Q departs, stating that the trial of humanity is never over. After Picard resolves the situation, Q admits to having helped him find the solution and to having saved him from death.
In " All Good Things," Q reveals that the trial of humanity is not over and displaces Picard through different time periods where a temporal anomaly threatens the existence of humanity. In " Tapestry", Q apparently saves Picard and helps him better understand himself, giving Picard a chance to avoid the accident that gave him an artificial heart only for Picard to choose dying as himself over living the tedious life he would have lived without the inspiration of his near-death experience (although whether Q actually appeared in this episode or was merely a hallucination Picard experienced during surgery is deliberately left ambiguous). Toward the end of The Next Generation, Q is less antagonistic toward Picard. In the same episode, Q says that Picard is "the closest thing in this universe that I have to a friend." In " Deja Q", Q is punished by the Q Continuum by being made mortal his committing of an uncharacteristically selfless act (sacrificing his life so that a race attacking him will not destroy the Enterprise) garners the return of his powers. Q returns the Enterprise home and tells Picard that other men would rather have died than ask for help. Unable to resist the Borg, Picard must ask Q to save the ship. Picard argues that Q's services are unneeded (and unwanted), and Q rebuts him by teleporting the USS Enterprise to a distant system for their first encounter with the Borg. In " Q Who", he offers to divest himself of his powers and guide humanity through uncharted regions and prepare it for unknown threats. When they later save the life of a kidnapped alien, Q agrees to defer judgment, though he hints that it will not be the last time the crew sees him. Q debuted in " Encounter at Farpoint", where he puts Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew on trial, arguing that humanity is a dangerous race and should be destroyed.
Gene Roddenberry chose the letter " Q" in honor of his friend Janet Quarton. Other times, notably during " Deja Q" and Voyager, Q appears to the crew seeking assistance.
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Q is initially presented as a cosmic force judging humanity to see if it is becoming a threat to the universe, but as the series progresses, his role morphs more into one of a teacher to Picard and the human race generally – albeit often in seemingly destructive or disruptive ways, subject to his own amusement.
He serves as a major antihero throughout The Next Generation, playing a pivotal role in both the first and final episodes. The true nature of the realm is said to be beyond the comprehension of "lesser beings" such as humans, therefore it is shown to humans only in ways they can understand e.g., a run-down gas station in the 'middle of nowhere'.īeginning with the pilot episode " Encounter at Farpoint" of The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry with Jean-Luc Picard. The name "Q" applies to the names of the individuals portrayed (all male and female characters refer to each other as "Q") it also applies to the name of their race and to the "Q Continuum" itself – an alternate dimension accessible to only the Q and their "invited" guests. Q occasionally uses contractions in his vocabulary as part of his chaotic god status. He is said to be almost omnipotent and he is continually evasive regarding his true motivations. Despite his vast knowledge and experience spanning untold eons (and much to the exasperation of the object(s) of his obsession), he is not above practical jokes for his own personal amusement, for a Machiavellian and manipulative purpose, or to prove a point. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself, being capable of altering it to his whim. The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. Q is a fictional character, as well as the name of a race, in Star Trek appearing in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Lower Decks series and in related media.