Q (character)

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Q

## Production stats

### Main actor

John de Lancie

> "*I add a little excitement, a little spice, to your lives, and all you do is complain. Where is your adventurous spirit, your imagination? Think, Picard, think! Think of the possibilities.*"
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Q is a being from the Q Continuum encountered by the Resistance and the United Federation of Worlds.

## Appearance

While he can take any form, Q usually takes the form of a human being with a high forehead and somewhat short, dark grey hair.

## Personality

Due to being immortal and omnipotent, Q thinks that most - if not all - lifeforms are below him. He has a very large ego

## History

Q had Ankarstian as a girlfriend for a while before his first encounter with the Federation. Their relationship wasn't exactly pleasant and they - presumably - broke it off at some point before Q met "Miss Q". (PER: Q and Seek)

### The 2360s

Q was first encountered by the Federation when he appeared aboard the USS Enterprise-D in early 2364. He warned the crew of the Enterprise that Humanity should return to their home star system or be destroyed.

When he encountered resistance, Q placed Humanity on trial, with Jean-Luc Picard and his command crew as representatives. Q accused Humanity of being a "dangerous, savage child-race." Picard managed to strike a deal with Q, however, and submitted to a test of conduct to prove that Humanity had evolved beyond its previously savage state.

The Enterprise's mission to Farpoint Station served as this test. The Starfleet crew sufficiently proved their evolved state of being by discovering and assisting a space vessel lifeform that had been coerced by the Bandi to take the form of a starbase. Q disappeared but promised the crew they had not seen the last of him. (TNG: Encounter at Farpoint)

The next time Q appeared on the *Enterprise* later that year, he created a bizarre and deadly "game" for the ship's crew, in order to demonstrate that he had given Commander William T. Riker Q-like abilities. His motives for this were that Humans had a desire to grow and explore, which the Q did not have or understand. Q wanted Riker to join the Continuum so they could understand and possess this desire because if they did not, Humanity could one day surpass the Q.

Q and Picard settled on a bet that, if Riker rejected his offer, the Q would leave Humanity alone forever. Ultimately, Riker rejected these new powers, and Q was forced back into the Continuum. (TNG: Hide and Q)

Because of those actions, Q was asked to leave the Q Continuum.

Q's third appearance on the *Enterprise* was in 2365. He presented himself as homeless and expressed an interest in joining Picard's crew, his reason being that Humanity would eventually push into uncharted territory and would need a guide as they were ill-prepared to face what they would find. Q even offered to renounce his powers to prove that his offer was genuine. However, when Picard vehemently declined, inspired by believing that Humanity could handle any threat, Q hurled the *Enterprise* into the path of a Borg cube. Ultimately, Picard had to beg for Q's help in escaping from the pursuit of the Borg ship. (TNG: Q Who)

In 2366, Q was stripped of his power and immortality and transformed into a Human by the Q Continuum, as punishment for his irresponsibility. He sought refuge on the *Enterprise*, and requested asylum and protection from the beings in the universe whom he had tormented. Although Captain Picard and the rest of the crew were unconvinced of the sincerity of Q's plea and indeed suspected the entire situation was merely an elaborate prank, Picard agreed to provide Q temporary asylum. During a visit to Ten Forward, almost humorously, Guinan makes an advantage out of the situation and stabs Q in the hand with a fork. Though not a scientist, Q provided theoretical guidance for Geordi La Forge's analysis of Bre'el IV's moon, which was in danger of colliding with its planet of orbit. During that time, Data was assigned to watch Q and Q gained an unusual perspective on Humanity and its condition from observing Data, in turn. However, after a Calamarain attack nearly destroyed Data (who risked his life to protect Q), Q became ashamed of his newly-discovered lack of empathy for other beings, and resolved to leave on a shuttle, allow the Calamarain to kill him, and prevent further risk to the *Enterprise* crew. Another Q intervened at that point, acknowledged Q's selfless act and restored Q's powers as a reward. In gratitude, Q corrected the orbit of the moon and also gave a special gift to Data, his "professor of the Humanities" – a brief moment of genuine laughter. (TNG: Deja Q)

Later, in 2367, Q returned to the *Enterprise* to "properly" thank Captain Picard for his role in helping him regain his standing in the Continuum. At the time, Picard was meeting a past lover named Vash (whom he had met on Risa) the year before. (TNG: Captain's Holiday) Q resolved to teach Picard a lesson about love, and cast Picard, Vash, and the *Enterprise* command crew into an elaborate scenario styled by the ancient legend of Robin Hood. Q himself assumed the role of the High Sheriff of Nottingham. Ultimately, Picard learned and everyone was returned to the *Enterprise*. However, intrigued by Vash, Q offered to take her on a journey of exploration to various archaeological ruins of the galaxy and she accepted. To pay his debt to Picard, he promised no harm would come to Vash. (TNG: Qpid)

In 2369, he once again appeared aboard the *Enterprise*-D, this time to instruct Amanda Rogers, a seemingly Human female who developed Q powers during an internship with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Shortly after Rogers' birth, the Continuum had used a tornado to execute Rogers' parents, two Q who had assumed life as Humans on Earth, for being unable to resist using their powers while in Human guise. Although Q's petulant and acerbic attitude did little to ingratiate himself to Amanda, he eventually convinced her to go with him to the Continuum, to learn to use her new-found abilities. (TNG: True Q)

A few months later, Q followed Vash back to the Alpha Quadrant, after the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole created a new avenue of travel between there and the Gamma Quadrant. Having had so much fun with Vash, Q wanted to continue exploring the galaxy, but Vash wanted nothing to do with him. While the two were at Deep Space 9, mysterious power drains were believed to be Q's doing, but they were, in fact, due to an embryonic lifeform that Vash had unknowingly brought back from the Gamma Quadrant. Q also had a brief confrontation with Commander Benjamin Sisko during his visit and disrupted an auction that Quark and Vash staged in Quark's. Though he was intrigued by Sisko hitting him, Q eventually became bored because "Sisko was so different than Picard." One might speculate that Q's actions were intended to ensure Vash's safety in regards to the promise that he had made to Picard two years earlier. In the end, Vash and Q went their separate ways, though both eventually admitted to retaining a certain fondness for each other. (DS9: Q-Less)

Later that same year, Q appeared to Picard when the latter was critically injured in a Lenarian ambush. Appearing as "God", Q told Picard that he had died because of his artificial heart and offered him the chance to return to the incident in his youth, which allowed him to relive the events leading up to his near-fatal injury and change history. Even though Picard was successful in changing history, he eventually realized that the event – and his previous nature as an arrogant, brash young man – was a part of his identity, and had helped mold him into the successful Starfleet officer that he became. Even though he was uncertain as to whether the experience had been real or simply a vision, Picard was grateful for Q's revelation. (TNG: Tapestry)

In 2370, Q returned to the *Enterprise* to continue the trial against Humanity. Claiming that the seven-year-old trial had never actually ended, Q proclaimed Humanity guilty of "being inferior" and informed Picard that his race was to be destroyed. He sent Picard traveling through time to his own past and present, as well as to a potential future. In all three time periods, Picard was presented with a temporal paradox in the form of an eruption of anti-time in the Devron system. In that paradox, Picard himself was responsible for the creation of the anomaly, which propagated backward in normal time, anti-time having the opposite properties of normal time, thus destroying Humanity in the past.

However, in addition to sending Picard jumping through time, Q also provided Picard with hints to understanding the nature of the paradox. Ultimately, Picard determined the solution and devised a way to close the anti-time anomaly in all three time periods. Following the success, Q revealed that the entire experience had been a test devised by the Continuum and had been aimed at determining whether Humanity was capable of expanding its horizons to understand some of the advanced concepts of the universe, including the potential of Humanity's own evolution – but helping Captain Picard had been his idea. Q promised to continue watching Humanity, and proclaimed that: "*The trial never ends.*" (TNG: All Good Things...)

### 2370s

In 2372, Q was sent by the Continuum to board the USS *Voyager*, whose crew had unintentionally released a renegade Q from confinement in a rogue comet. When the other Q, later known as "Quinn", asked for asylum on *Voyager* in order to fulfill his wish to commit suicide, an act considered illegal in the Continuum, Q was permitted to represent the Continuum at a hearing to determine whether the requested asylum would be granted. Q argued that permitting a Q to commit suicide would cause unspeakable chaos and disorder – a profound irony, considering Q's own history as a prankster and renegade. When confronted with his past deeds, Q commented that [his] record has been expunged.

Ultimately, Quinn's arguments prevailed and he was made into a mortal being. Q himself was touched by Quinn's dedication and beliefs – Quinn had previously been an admirer of Q's, because of Q's propensity to stir controversy and cause disorder – and actually provided Quinn with the means with which to commit suicide. Q resolved to return to some of his old habits and to encourage the Continuum to allow more chaos into their own order. (VOY: Death Wish)

Following the death of Quinn, a massive Q Civil War broke out, as the forces of the *status quo* resisted the calls for change in the Continuum, by a faction led by Q himself. Seeking to end the conflict, Q devised a plan to mate with Kathryn Janeway, the captain of *Voyager*, in order to create a new Q / Human hybrid – a new breed of Q that would help bring an end to the civil war. However, Janeway flatly refused.

Q then kidnapped Janeway and took her to the Continuum, where he again tried to persuade her by explaining the nature of the conflict. However, Janeway again declined, though she openly sympathized with Q for his inability to understand love and tried to negotiate a truce between the two sides. Those negotiations failed, however, because the *status quo* faction refused to accept any terms other than surrender. They attempted to execute both Q and Janeway, but they were stopped by personnel from *Voyager*, with the assistance of Q female, an old flame of Q's. Q and the female Q were able to equip Janeway and the rest of *Voyager*'s crew with Q weapons, which they were able to use to battle the opposing *status quo* faction.

Q then proposed mating with his old girlfriend instead of with Janeway and she agreed. The new child, nicknamed "Q junior," became the first child born in the Continuum for millennia and his presence brought an end to the civil war. (VOY: The Q and the Grey)

However, Q's child did not prove to become the perfect "savior" child he was meant to be; Junior grew into a spoiled brat and caused chaos and disorder. Q tried to briefly leave his son with "Aunt Kathy" aboard *Voyager* and hoped that Janeway's "vaunted Starfleet ideals" would rub off on him. Q himself began to learn more about the role of being a parent, revealing that much of Junior's actions were not punished properly by Q. However, after spending years with the child, Junior only began to behave worse. As a result, the Continuum stripped his son of his powers, left him aboard *Voyager* (again under the care of Janeway), and told him to change his ways within a week or Junior would be sentenced to spend eternity as an Oprelian amoeba.

Though Q was initially unimpressed by his son's progress, he devised a test of "Q-ness" to determine whether his son had improved his attitude. He masqueraded as a Chokuzan captain and threatened Junior and his friend Icheb after they took the *Delta Flyer* from *Voyager*. Junior passed with flying colors and offered to sacrifice himself to face the consequence of his actions, which had endangered Icheb.

However, the Continuum was not impressed by Junior's progress and sentenced him to remain Human. Outraged, Q proclaimed that he would leave the Continuum if his son was not allowed to rejoin – the pair was a "packaged deal". "Begging for [Q's] return" as a deterrent to instability, Q earlier stated that he "holds them all together", the Continuum acquiesced, on one condition – that Q retain eternal custody of the boy. Grateful for her assistance, Q provided Janeway with a map to a shortcut that would shave three years off *Voyager*'s journey home. Janeway asked Q why he did not send them all the way back to Earth and his response was that it would be setting a bad example for his son if he did all the work for them. (VOY: Q2)

### The 2500s

In the year 2500, Q was made to give one being his powers by the Q Continuum. He eventually chose his old fling Ank while she was on the Federation space station the Perseus. Materializing on the Perseus, Q re-introduced himself to Ank and then gave her his powers - accidentally sending both of them to a planet that the Perseus was studying. The planet was made by the Q to serve as Q's home for the rest of his life and had a being called "the Construct" on it. While on the planet, the Calamarain attempted to gain revenge on Q again - however, they were stopped by Ankarstian, Captain Sharrel of the Perseus, and the Construct. Afterwards, Ank was able to bargain with the Q so that Q could have his powers back (PER: Q and Seek)

Q would encounter the crew of the Perseus again while they were exploring the planet Delmossi II. He attempted to warn a survey team about a being that endangered all of reality - however - he wasn't believed. That was when time was frozen by the being. Ank (who existed outside of time) and Q then began a hunt for the being - who gave life to several of the Ice Giants around Delmossi to try and kill them. The duo, however, survived and were able to find the palace of the being - who was revealed to be Reach. A battle began between the duo and Reach. This battle was seemingly won by Q - who gave Reach a chronon bomb as a "trophy". This chronon bomb, however, was primed and Reach accidentally created a hole in spacetime around him. This restored time back to normal and Q left the planet shortly afterwards (PER: Time and Q)

After this, Q was placed on trial by a group of Q led by the InQuisitor - a shadowy Q judge. The main charge was the genocide of the inhabitants of the planet Develaush - which the crew of the Perseus were seemingly present for. Q, as such, summoned the crew of the Perseus as witnesses. However, it conspired that taking them out of time actively caused the genocide of Develaush. The InQuisitor attempted to execute Q due to this, however, it was revealed by Ankarstian that he was planning on killing everyone in the jury and using their powers to take over the multiverse. The InQuisitor was stopped and it was revealed that he was actually an amalgamation of Q's "dark side" given physical form by relics on Develaush. Q was acquitted of all charges after the InQuisitor's plan was stopped and he departed the courtroom after this (PER: Trial of a Q)

### Jonathan Crisis

Q begrudgingly joined the JC during the Battle of Ardonia. He would help in multiple ways, such as changing the Dogammi Picardias' source code and undoing the damage caused by a nuke launched at Fort Zuka by either Hudson or Molbert (although the nuke was stopped by Fort Zuka's plot armour).

He would also place GreaterA on Derleth's World after the destruction of the Nebula 2 and formed an android clone of Tom Baker to accompany A and would occasionally possess Tom to help A

PoseidonHeir, GreaterA, Ankarstian, Dr. Loboto, Crux Tamaki, SANTACLAWS, Detective Whiskers

**Recurring characters**
Hydrium, Hadley, Investigator Rog'tor, Captain Kiyoshi, Sgt. Fishe, The Cabinet, Fel!lexi gel, Delarasay, Thosth, Andranazar, Finn, Ash, Virmir, Shaley, Pumpkin, Tom, Dr. Phage, Bow-tie, The Creator, Kaluex, IRONIC4life, Hudson, XTeodor12, Penny, Axel

**Minor characters**
Ess'Kraktik, Kost, Hurranix, Beanson, Yyge, Achillean Nestoris, Zulius Kaltaris, **Q**, The Doctor