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Amanda Rogers gives Capt. James T. Kirk a Q weapon.

Q weapons were weapons created by the Q .

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Q weapons were used by the Q during their civil war in 2373 . The crew of the USS Voyager were given Q weapons when the Female Q brought them to Q Continuum . In 2379 , Amanda Rogers gave these weapons to the command crews of the USS Defiant , USS Enterprise , USS Enterprise -E , and Voyager when Q started a conflict with the Metrons , Trelane , and the Organians . ( VOY episode : " The Q and the Grey "; ST - The Q Conflict comic : " Issue 6 ")

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In the Voyager episode The Q And The Grey , we saw a civil war breaking out in the Continuum, caused by Quinn's death in the episode Death Wish .

In that episode, the two Q factions fought each other with special weapons built by the Continuum. These weapons (which were represented by guns from the American Civil War) were capable of injuring and killing Qs, and were so powerful that using them in the Continuum could generate supernovae in our universe (a phenomenon that Q called 'galactic cross fire').

These Q weapons are interesting because, prior to this episode, it was assumed that all of the powers of the Q came from their own minds. Q weapons showed that the Continuum could invent technology even more mighty than their natural powers, and these weapons could even be wielded by physical beings, like Humans. We already knew from episodes like True Q , that the Continuum was able to execute Qs, and there have been several times when Qs had their powers taken and were made mortal, but this was the first time Humans were shown to be able to kill one of these highly powerful entities at full power.

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Q Continuum

The Q Continuum is an extradimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of beings known as the Q.

As a race, the Q are apparently both nearly immortal and nearly omnipotent, possessing the ability of instantaneous matter-energy transformation and teleportation, as well as the ability of time travel. Their apparent abilities include moving entire asteroid belts and stars, creating alternate timelines, and affecting universal states of nature such as the gravitational constant. In fact, the only time a Q is seen as unable to do something is during a period where their powers are reduced or revoked by the Continuum. (TNG: "Deja Q", "Tapestry", "All Good Things...")

The Q claim to have always existed, with no explanation as to how they first came into existence. VOY: "The Q and the Grey"

Based on descriptions by numerous Q, including the Q later known as Quinn, as well as Amanda Rogers (the child of two Q in Human form), the Q Continuum is a highly ordered society, but is also the result of eons of evolutionary stagnation. Because of their immortality, everything possible has been done, and their omniscience has become boring. As a result, Quinn, a respected philosopher in the Continuum, stated that he wished to die – because he had no further purpose in life. The Continuum, however, denied him this act because, it was claimed, extraordinary chaos would result from such an act – his influence among the Q was expected to make this act have unpredictable social consequences, which was, actually, exactly what Quinn believed to be necessary to end stagnation in the Continuum.

Quinn was imprisoned on a rogue comet for eternity to prevent him from ending his own life, until he was accidentally released by the crew of the USS Voyager in 2372. In a courtroom hearing to determine his right to political asylum, Quinn described the Continuum as a lazy, old roadhouse along a deserted desert highway – he argued that the road could take them to anywhere in the universe, but the Q had already been everywhere. In addition, everything both Old and New had already been discussed, and so the roadhouse was silent – there was nothing left to say. Therefore, Quinn argued that being forced to remain alive was a continued burden to him, a burden that he did not want to continue to bear. Q argued that the death of a Q would create chaos in the Continuum. Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway ruled in Quinn's favor, granting him asylum. A day later, Quinn committed suicide. (VOY: "Death Wish")

As a result of Quinn's action, the Continuum was plunged into a massively destructive civil war that set the "Freedom Faction" against the traditional Q. The two factions were able to construct weapons that could even compromise the immortality of a Q. When these weapons were fired in the Continuum, this resulted in massive damage to subspace, causing some stars in normal space to go supernova. Eventually it damaged subspace to such an extent that Q outside of the Continuum lost their powers and immortality.

Q had the idea of mating with Janeway to produce a being with the powers of a Q, but the morals of a Human in order to end the war. The crew of Voyager flew through a supernova into the Continuum with help from a female Q, who had lost her powers and could not return without Voyager's help. Voyager's crew quickly overpowered the Q by using Q weapons. A ceasefire was called. Q mated with the female Q instead of Janeway and the damage to subspace was restored, making the Q omnipotent and invincible again. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")

Later on, the new Q became an intergalactic troublemaker. He started wars between innocent races, knocked planets out of orbit, detonated Omega molecules, and created havoc in every way he could. His mother disowned him, humiliated by his actions. Q, however, followed him, cleaning up all the damage.

Under advice from Janeway, Q implemented punishment on the boy. Q dumped him on Voyager, and with the help of the "Q government" took away his powers. Junior, as he was called by his father, had one week to become a good citizen, or he would be sentenced to eternity as an Oprelian amoeba. Junior did well for the first few days, until he stole the Delta Flyer. After his friend Icheb was injured, however, he returned to Voyager. Janeway made him apologize to the ship he attacked, which was in fact Q, who masqueraded as a likely target to test his son's attitude.

When Judgment Day came, Junior was still found unworthy of being a Q, but was good enough to be a Human. After this sentence, Q threatened to leave the Continuum unless his son was allowed to stay. After further pleading, the Continuum agreed to grant the young Q's powers back to him on the condition that his father act as his guardian and supervisor in perpetuum, or at least until he could prove himself worthy. (VOY: "Q2")

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Review: Q’s Deadly Game Ends In The Final Issues Of ‘Star Trek: The Q Conflict’

| August 26, 2019 | By: Joe Andosca 16 comments so far

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Written by: Scott Tipton and David Tipton

Art by: Silvia Califano (Issue #4), David Messina (Issues #5 and #6)

The Q Conflict recently released its sixth and final issue, ending one of the most ambitious premises in Trek comic history. The entire universe was at stake with the heroes facing one of the most notorious villains in all of Star Trek . The Tipton brothers were writing. David Messina was doing the art. They even brought in J.K. Woodward to do the first cover. It had all the makings of a classic and the first three issues were really enjoyable , but did it last? Find out below as TrekMovie reviews the final three issues. Tally-ho!

The Prophets of Rage (Issue #4)

After staring down the belly of the beast in issue 3, Picard’s team destroyed the “planet killer” from the classic TOS episode, “The Doomsday Machine.” Before they could even reflect on their victory, it was on to the next challenge. Apparently the Bajoran Prophets did not accept Q’s invitation to the games, so he’s instructed the teams to, essentially, annoy them.

The four captains huddle with their respective teams to formulate a plan of action. Picard, under the suggestion of Spock, floods the wormhole with anti-tachyons, essentially “knocking” on the Prophets’ front door. The Emissary attempts to contact them directly, alone, while Kira gazes into an orb. Kirk takes a different approach and takes the Enterprise directly into the wormhole, upon Dax’s recommendation.

Unfortunately, this is where things take a downturn for me. The ever so brash Kirk makes contact, angering the Prophets who turn their rage towards Q. The entire premise of this particular challenge is that Q is intentionally antagonizing the Prophets because he’s upset they didn’t participate in his little game. I get why they’re here – the Tiptons are trying to introduce something from every series as a new challenge but this fell a bit short for me. The irritated, extra-dimensional entities battle Q in a brief space-time bending melee, resulting in the omnipotent one literally balled up in the fetal position. To the rescue are two more characters joining the fray, Q(2) and Q(Amanda Rogers).

Despite my thoughts on the story, the art, however, is excellent. David Messina took one issue off and tagged in Silvia Califano, whose style I love. For the most part, she gets the likenesses spot-on. It’s not always perfect, but her art is so gorgeous, it doesn’t matter. The level of detail is outstanding, even in wide shots. If her Twitter  feed is any indication, we’re going to be seeing a lot more Trek from her and that’s a very good thing.

Queen For a Day (Issue #5)

With the arrival of Q2 and Amanda Rogers, the story gets back on track. Amanda smooths everything over with the Prophets while Q2 scolds Q over his recklessness. As we’ve heard so many times before, the Continuum has just about had it with Q’s shenanigans. They tell Q he can continue his game, but he’s on an extremely short leash.

For the next challenge, Q has upped the danger factor to 11 and once again, Trelane is to become the benefactor. The man-child not only has a menagerie full of intergalactic animals, but he’s also a huge fan of the Borg and wants one more trophy – a Queen. Apparently it’s something he’s been wanting for a long time, even against the wishes of his parents. Clearly, he’s learned nothing since Kirk’s last encounter with him on Gothos. Which begs the question – where are his parents? Those oddly pulsating, translucent green blobs probably should’ve brought him home the minute the Q Conflict started.

Their mission (they have no choice but to accept it) is to capture a Borg Queen and deliver her to Trelane for his amusement. No big deal. As one can imagine, all of this doesn’t sit well with Guinan, who has a very bad feeling about all of this. That’s why she enlists even more characters to join this story because why the heck not?

On the plus side, as we wait for  Star Trek: Picard , we do get a chance to see Jean-Luc and Seven team up. On the downside, capturing a Borg Queen was way too easy, even with all of the help they have. It took an entire movie to take down the first queen and at least two episodes in subsequent meetings. It would have been interesting to see the Borg put up more of a fight – perhaps disrupting Q’s game by, say assimilating the Iconian technology or even one of the Q’s. But alas, the Tiptons played it straight, so it didn’t happen. Instead, Wesley and the Traveler come and save the day, because, again, the more the merrier.

Speaking of the Iconians, one of the coolest things in this issue is Janeway’s use of the captured gateway from issue #2 as a discreet way of communicating with the other captains. “Contagion” is one of my favorite TNG season 2 episodes and I always wanted them to revisit that storyline and technology. How it was incorporated into the story was done really well and I especially enjoyed the callback.

After a one-issue hiatus, David Messina is back on pencil duty. While he may not have actor likenesses down, he more than makes up for in terms of visual storytelling. His framing and overall visual choices are excellent which really help complement the epic nature of the story. Plus, anyone that can organically fit the Picard facepalm gif into a comic panel is my hero.

War (What is it Good For?) (Issue #6)

In the last few issues, Q has made the teams jump through galactic hoops by having them capture an ancient piece of Iconian technology, defeat the “planet killer,” anger the Prophets, and capture a Borg Queen. All in a day’s work for the best of the best Starfleet has to offer. They’ve all reluctantly gone along with Q’s childish game thus far, all the while secretly planning for a way out. I would’ve thought that the Borg Queen would’ve been the last straw, but, instead, Q reveals the next challenge – capturing an Omega Molecule.

As we found out on Star Trek: Voyager , an Omega Particle is one of the most destructive force in the galaxy. Knowing that, finally, it’s determined that the game must end now. What’s the best way to tell a godlike being you’ve had enough? Well, Q has appeared over a dozen times across multiple series and as we’ve seen repeatedly, the only way to defeat him is to face him in battle with Q weapons. Wait, what?

Janeway is no stranger to Q weapons as we saw in the VOY episode, “The Q and the Grey” in which the Continuum were involved in a Civil War. Amanda Rogers equips the teams with the weapons, which their primitive human minds comprehend as phaser rifles, hand phasers, and the occasional 20th-century automatic weapon.

What ensues next is an all-out war with Q, complete with tree monsters ( Rock Man  gets cut again!), salt vampires, Borg drones, and Mugatos. I won’t spoil the ending but inevitably when it comes to Q, things have a way of working out just fine.

Final Verdict:

The Q Conflict is definitely entertaining and it’s really fun to see all of the crews interact with each other. I love the ambition IDW and the Tiptons had in the beginning. It’s no easy task to include essentially every major Star Trek character into a story so I applaud them for that. For the most part, it works.

But the central issue I have is with Q himself. He was usually played by John de Lance as a mischievous, master manipulator with a soft spot for humanity. Sure, he always manages to cause trouble at the expense of each crew, but some of the time, he’s there to help or teach a lesson. While it may have seemed reckless for him to introduce the Borg, it gave the Federation a chance to prepare for an attack against an enemy they otherwise would never have seen coming. Whether or not that worked is beside the point. He also gave Picard a second chance at life and the ability to save humanity from its own annihilation. He may be a pest, but he certainly isn’t evil.

The Q Conflict , however, portrays Q as an aggressive, overbearing bully with a thirst for power. At times, he’s absolutely out of control and not very fun to watch. Whenever there was a new Q episode, for better or worse, they were usually entertaining. While ultimately he explains to Picard that there was no other way for the war among the godlike beings to end, his actions throughout the series don’t reflect that. In fact, the only reason he doesn’t annihilate everything in his path is because Q2 talks him off the ledge.

While overall The Q Conflict was enjoyable, I’m not totally sold on the execution. Just because you can cram a bunch characters into one story doesn’t always mean it’s going to come out like The Avengers . For me, it felt more like The Avengers: Age of Ultron . And just like Age of Ultron , it’s not the best, but still worth checking out.

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It bothers me to see Odo with a phaser rifle since he often refused weapons when offered.

I mistyped…. he ALWAYS refused weapons.

He might have made an exception here, since his shapeshifting wouldn’t be enough to take on Q.

Where is Captain Archer?

It really irks me, the lack of Archer et al in comic form.

From Memory Beta: Enterprise is the only Star Trek series not to have any comics based on it. The most Enterprise has so far achieved in comics are a handful of references in IDW publications: A shuttlepod appeared in TNG comic: “Captain’s Pleasure” and flashback to the ENT episode: “Divergence” was included in TOS comic: “Against Their Nature”, making Phlox the first, and so far only, Enterprise character to appear in a comic. The NX-01 features as a hologram in young Kirk’s bedroom in the comic Operation: Annihilate, Part 1 .

I know it had a bit of a stigma attached to it at the time it aired but I’d say ENT fandom is at least on par with YOY fandom these days. Feels like merchandising/publishers still see any ENT based comic as a massive gamble in terms of sales. It’s a shame especially when you consider IDW is happy to put out a mirror universe Voyager comic in 2019, albeit a one shot, but the point still stands.

Then Memory Beta is wrong, as IDW has published Enterprise stories in WAYPOINT.

Logically there must be licensing issues with ENT, rather than any great conspiracy…

Rumor is Baukla doesn’t want his likeness used for comics…but who knows if this is true or an excuse.

That doesn’t explain why T’Pol and the others couldn’t show up.

This was kind of fun, but I think there were too many characters for such a short story. Most of them didn’t get to do anything. There are a lot of interesting ways that these unusual character pairings could have been explored. We got one line about Worf feeling uncomfortable seeing Jadzia, but we never saw the two characters interact, and Worf’s feelings weren’t really explored. Picard and Seven interacted a bit, but they didn’t discuss their common experiences with the Borg. Tuvok recognized Sulu, but the two characters didn’t interact at all. They brought all of the characters in, but the story wasn’t at all about the characters. It was just about Q’s war, which wasn’t very interesting. Plus, the NX-01 and Discovery were conspicuously missing.

I read all 6 issues and liked it, but had a few problems. Trelane was great, but I didn’t buy the other 2 beings accepting playing a game with Q. The colors are quite pretty, but I’m not sure everything needed to be pretty. Some characters looked good, others like Janeway never looked right. And the bodies of the characters often looked spindly or crooked to me. Like the ambition of this, wish it was a little better.

It seemed like Ayelborne and the Metron didn’t really have a choice. Q attacked them, and he was more powerful. Playing his game was preferable to war.

Worf is wearing a First Contact uniform with security division colors, so when is this taking place for the TNG crew? The DS9ers look like they’re from season 4 bc Sisko is captain but still in the DS9 uniform. Having written that, Dax is a Lt. for some reason. On screen, we’ve never seen Worf in a security colored Starfleet uniform in the DS9 or FC design, which have only shown him sporting command red.

And Odo with a weapon in hand?! WTF is Quark doing there at all.

Sisko mentioned that he had been on DS9 for about three years.

This may be the Tiptons’ weakest work–which is unfortunate, as they are usually great. The main problem is that they don’t write Q well. Other writers have done far better with him in the comics.

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Star trek just set up 1 species as stronger than the q.

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• Star Trek #12 is set to reveal the true power level of the Bajoran Prophets, who may be even more powerful than the Q.
• The Prophets have the ability to withstand Kahless' God-Killer weapon, indicating their immense strength and importance in ending the God War.
• The Bajoran Prophets' encounter with Q in the comics suggests that they have the capability to defeat the God-Killer, potentially bringing the God War to an end.

IDW's Star Trek has established the power of the Bajoran Prophets at least rivals, if not surpasses, the multidimensional entities known as the Q. One of the most powerful races in Trek , the Q fled our plane of existence to avoid the God War raging across the universe, and the forthcoming Star Trek #12 is set to reveal the true power level of the Prophets, who perhaps hold the key to ending the conflict.

League of Comic Geeks shared a preview of Star Trek #12, shipping in September. Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, with art by Angel Unzueta, the issue features the crews of the Theseus and Defiant working together to stop Kahless' genocidal campaign against the gods. With Sisko able to withstand Kahless's God-Killer weapon thanks to the power of the Prophets, the extent of the Bajoran wormhole entities strength is made clear.

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Star Trek's God War is Unique in its History

The current IDW S t ar Trek imprint has embarked on a storytelling initiative unlike any in the franchise up to this point. According to Klingon lore, their first emperor Kahless killed the gods, who oppressed his people. A clone of Kahless introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation , having been ceremonially declared Emperor once more, has now seized real power and begun ruthless attack on the Star Trek universe’s god-like beings. Ascended beings and species such as Gary Mitchell and the Crystalline Entities have fallen to Kahless’ and his Red Path's god-killer array. The Bajoran Prophets sent Captain Benjamin Sisko back to our reality to stop Kahless before it is too late.

The Prophets Are Not to Be Trifled With

As the God War continues, Sisko has questioned the will of the Prophets: they are coy, not forthcoming in information, and seemingly toy with humanity. While their cosmic powers have always been depicted as immeasurable in human terms, much like the Q, Star Trek #12 may in fact reveal that the Bajoran Prophets are more powerful than the Q. Although the Q and the Prophets never met onscreen, they have encountered each other in the comics. In Star Trek: The Q Conflict , the cosmic trickster pulled together four different crews, forcing them into contests – including stealing a Bajoran Orb from the Celestial Temple (the Bajoran Wormhole) and delivering it to him.

During the attempt, the Prophets confronted Q, implying they had met before. The Prophets chided Q, telling him their last encounter saw him nearly defeated. With this precedent in mind, and the God War heading toward its bloody climax, it appears the Bajoran Prophets will be shown as even more powerful than Q, able to withstand the God-Killer-Array that the Q fled in fear of. While the Q could perhaps re-emerge to help defeat Kahless and his Red Path legions, their power may not be enough. If the Prophets have found a way to defeat the God-Killer, it could the only thing that can bring Star Trek’s God War to an end.

Source: League of Comic Geeks

Star Trek #12 is on sale September 27th from IDW Publishing!

The Untold Truth Of Q From Star Trek

He's an enigmatic, seemingly omnipotent being who manipulates people like they're chess pieces. He's a mischievous trickster who can go anywhere and be anything in our three-dimensional space. He's Q — no other name necessary — and he's proven himself to be both a  great ally and antagonist within the Star Trek franchise .

Played by classically trained actor John de Lancie, Q is easily one of Star Trek 's most iconic creations — even though he's only appeared in 13 episodes to date in multiple Star Trek television series. Nevertheless, it sometimes seems Q is everywhere, thanks to all the Star Trek novels, comics, audio books, and video games he's popped up in.

With John de Lancie set to reappear as Q in  season 2 of Star Trek: Picard , now's a perfect time to get up close and personal with this omnipotent trickster and find out what makes him tick. Be warned though: de Lancie himself has claimed that Q, much like the infamous English poet Lord Byron, is "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." With that in mind, let's delve into the many secrets of Star Trek' s Q.

Q is named after a Star Trek fan

At first glance, Q's name seems ridiculously simple. It's just one letter — how hard could it have been to come up with? But according to the 4th edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the story behind Q's designation has a curious link with the Star Trek fandom.

Q was named by none other than Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who chose the unusual alias in honor of his friend Janet Quarton. A  long-time Star Trek fan , Quarton was the president of the Star Trek Action Group (STAG), an early Star Trek fan club. She also helped publish  Star Trek fanzines and organize Star Trek conventions in Britain. Her involvement in the Star Trek fan community caught the attention of Gene Roddenberry who corresponded closely with Quarton over the years.

Later, when Roddenberry helmed Star Trek: The Next Generation, he decided to name the new series' first antagonist after the last initial of his friend — and John de Lancie was dubbed "Q" for the series' pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint." Given how much future Star Trek fandom would embrace the superbeing, it seems only appropriate that a fan helped name him.

He's not the only Q

John de Lancie may be the face of Q for Star Trek fans, but the truth is he's not the only member of his species — nor do all members of the Q act like him. Over the years, fans have seen many different "Q" entities who all belong to the "Q Continuum," an extra-dimensional plane of existence.

Where de Lancie's Q comes across as a trickster figure, other Qs are more benevolent. In the  Star Trek: Voyager season 2 episode "Death Wish," the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager encounters a Q who's been subtly influencing human society for the better — making sure an apple fell on Sir Isaac Newton's head to inspire his theory of gravity and saving Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes)'s ancestor during the Civil War. Other Q members prefer to live quietly, including a couple who disguised themselves as humans and had a daughter,  Amanda Rogers (Olivia d'Abo) , in the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6 episode "True Q."

In fact, in "Death Wish," it's revealed that most of Q society is bored with their immortality and power, which helps explain why de Lancie's Q likes hanging out with human beings so much — they're much more fun than his own people.

Q is very similar to a classic Star Trek antagonist

When Gene Roddenberry first came up with the idea to put Q in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, other members of the writing team hated the character and advised him not to use him in the pilot.

Why? According to the Star Trek reference book, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years — From the Next Generation to J.J. Abrams, the team saw Q as a copy of Trelane, a character who appears in the original Star Trek season 1 episode "The Squire of Gothos." In the story,  Captain Kirk and his crew encounter a powerful alien named Trelane (William Campbell) who makes the Enterprise crew his playthings. Although Trelane appears all-powerful, we learn he's the child of two other omnipotent beings who make him stop bothering the U.S.S. Enterprise.

While similar to Trelane, both Roddenberry and de Lancie worked to make Q a unique entity. Nevertheless, fans continue to see the parallels and non-canon Star Trek media makes links between the two. In his novel Q-Squared, writer Peter David reveals Trelane is, in fact, another member of the Q Continuum. Then in the Star Trek comic book storyline "The Q Conflict," Q assembles a team of omnipotent beings including Trelane to make multiple Star Trek crews battle in a cosmic-level game.

Q can make other people omnipotent

Q's powers are immense, which he's repeatedly demonstrated throughout his appearances throughout the Star Trek franchise. With a snap of his fingers, Q can teleport himself and anyone else to any place or time. He can rewrite the very fabric of our universe — moving asteroids or even creating pocket realities. And he's nearly omniscient, claiming in the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3 episode "Deja Q" that he has "an IQ of 2005."

And thanks to his powers, Q can give anyone the abilities of a god — which he does to  Commander William Riker in the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1 episode "Hide and Q." Riker gains the ability to transport his crew mates anywhere he wants without relying on their usual transporter technology. He resurrects Worf (Michael Dorn) from the dead, ages teenager Wesley Crusher (Will Wheaton) to an adult, and even gives blind Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton) natural vision.

However, every member of the Enterprise rejects Riker's "gifts" (although Worf does get to stay alive), causing Riker to reject his new powers. And it's a good thing too. Q only gave Riker god-like abilities as part of a bet he had with Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). By choosing not to be a Q-level entity, Q is forced to leave the Enterprise alone — although he does find enough loopholes to make multiple return visits.

Q isn't all-powerful

While Q might appear to be an all-knowing and all-powerful god to some, the truth is he doesn't have limitless powers. Other members of the Q Continuum can overpower Q or even strip him of his powers, as they did in the episode "Deja Q" by turning him into an ordinary human being with back problems.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation season 4 episode "Qpid," Q transports the Enterprise crew to a pocket reality where Picard becomes Robin Hood, his crew becomes his Merry Men, and Q himself adopts the guise of the Sheriff of Nottingham. As he explains the rules of his new game, Q reveals that he's given this reality a life of its own and not even he can predict what will happen. This shows that Q is not omnipotent or omniscient, as a truly all-powerful being could not create something capable of overpowering or outsmarting him.

Indeed, this quasi-omnipotence may be the one saving grace for the Q, as involving themselves in games of chance gives them the thrill of not knowing what will happen next.

Star Trek's Q once became super-omnipotent

Q may have been at the mercy of the Q Continuum in many of his early appearances, but a non-canonical comic book storyline shows that he once became super-omnipotent — thanks to  J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot .

In the IDW Star Trek story "The Q Gambit," Q journeys to the Kelvin timeline of the Abrams' films where the younger alternate versions of Captain Kirk and Spock are having their own adventures. Q transports the crew forward into the future where they meet alternate versions of Benjamin Sisko and the crew from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .

Although this seems to be another one of Q's games, the trickster later reveals the Q-Continuum is in a war against another extra-dimensional race, the malevolent Deep Space Nine  villains, the Pah-Wraiths, whose power allows them to fight the Q. To stop them, Spock engineers a situation where Q merges with a member of the Pah-Wraiths' ancient enemy The Prophets. Q evolves into a supremely powerful being who eliminates the Pah-Wraiths with a wave of his hand, and then pops back into the Prime Star Trek universe to show off his super-godly powers to Jean-Luc Picard.

Let's be real: Q is in love with Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard may treat Q with annoyance, but Q has a unique affection for Picard. In "Deja Q," Q admits, "in all the universe, you're the closest thing I have to a friend, Jean-Luc." Data (Brent Spiner) also observes in the  Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale "All Good Things..." that, "Q's interest in you has always been very similar to that of a master and his beloved pet" before hastily adding, "That was only an analogy, Captain."

However, in the season 6 episode "Tapestry," Q indicates his interest in Picard goes beyond mere fondness when he  shows up in Picard's bed and wakes him with the words, "Morning, darling." The same episode has Q transport a dying Picard back to his Starfleet Academy days so the captain can gain a better appreciation for the mistakes of his past. This indicates Q views himself as Picard's guardian angel, albeit an impish one, who has a special love for the one he calls "Mon Capitane."

Screenwriter Ron Moore agrees, noting in Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection #90 that, "Q was in love with Picard, for some reason. That was the underpinning of the relationship... The weird love affair that he had going with Jean-Luc made that whole thing work."

Q is a lousy boyfriend and father

Sadly, when it comes to showing affection, Q's ego inevitably gets in the way of his relationships. In the Star Trek: Voyager season 3 episode "The Q and the Grey," Q's girlfriend "Lady Q" (Suzie Plankson) shows up when Q flirts with Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). The two have been a couple for four billion years, but Q emphasizes, " I never said it was exclusive " while bragging that he uses his omnipotence to seduce females across the galaxy.

In the episode, Q and his girlfriend are on opposite sides of a Q civil war, causing their relationship problems to threaten the universe with multiple supernova explosions. Q's idea to end the war is to impregnate Janeway and adding human DNA to the Continuum — an idea the Voyager captain roundly rejects. However, Janeway convinces Q to have a child with Lady Q instead, leading to a truce between the two factions.

Unfortunately, Q turns out to be a lousy father and in the Star Trek: Voyager season 7 episode "Q2," his son "Q Junior" (played by de Lancie's real-life son Keegan de Lancie) becomes a juvenile delinquent who starts wars, tampers with gene pools, and punches holes in space time. To get him to reform, Q strips Junior of his powers and dumps him on Voyager, where Junior makes friends and learns to value life. While this is good for the universe, it shows Q still tries to get other people to solve his problems instead of dealing with them himself.

Q really hates the Enterprise's bartender (and she hates him back)

Q's antics have earned him plenty of enemies across the universe, but oddly enough, one of the people who hates him the most is the  Enterprise's beloved bartender Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) . One of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's most serene and level-headed characters, Guinan reveals in "Q Who" that she has had "some dealings" with Q during the 22nd century that left them enemies. Q himself dislikes Guinan, calling her an "imp" and warning that wherever Guinan went, trouble follows.

Guinan gets a chance to strike back at Q in the season 3 episode "Deja Q" when the Q Continuum strips Q of his powers and renders him a mere human. Taking the opportunity to taunt the powerless Q, Guinan takes a fork and stabs him in the hand. Shortly after, one of Q's other enemies, the Calamarain, attacks him. As he screams in pain, Guinan only smirks and comments, "How the mighty have fallen."

Q gave Starfleet a head start against the Borg

Q once put the  U.S.S. Enterprise through a hellish experience that, strangely enough, turned out to be a favor in disguise. After Picard arrogantly tells him that his crew is prepared to deal with any dangers the universe might hold for them, Q transports the Enterprise into an uncharted sector of space where they encounter  the Borg, a powerful cybernetic race intent on assimilating all useful life and technology into its collective consciousness.

Unable to adequately counter this advanced form of life, Picard loses eighteen members of his crew to the Borg and admits his crew's shortcomings to Q, who transports the Enterprise back to the Alpha Quadrant. While Q's actions appear cruel and vindictive, Picard later realizes that the trickster gave Starfleet a "preview" of one of the biggest threats they would soon face — granting the Federation time to prepare an adequate defense. it seems appropriate that the Federation is one of the few galactic societies to have successfully fought back the Borg time and time again — probably due in part to Q giving humanity a glimpse at the threat the Borg would eventually pose.

Q has been out-debated by Spock

If there's one Star Trek character who's the antithesis of Q, it's  Spock — the cool, logical Vulcan immortalized by actor Leonard Nimoy . While Spock and Q were introduced in two separate series, they get to spend some time together when Nimoy and John de Lancie teamed up to produce the audiobook Spock vs. Q . Recorded in front of a live audience, the performance sees Ambassador Spock attempt to warn humanity of an approaching asteroid, only to be stopped by Q who believes humanity is not worth saving.

The two get into a lively debate over humanity's strengths and flaws, with Spock's clever logic ultimately triumphing over Q's chaotic ego. In the end, the Vulcan manages to convince the trickster to push the asteroid away so it'll hit Earth a several years later, buying humanity enough time to work together and stop it when it finally does arrive.

The audio drama proved popular and was followed by a sequel, Spock vs. Q: The Sequel . Weirdly, in this new story, Spock and Q switch personalities, causing Spock to become goofy and silly while Q gains a more logical perspective. More of a comedy routine than a debate, this audio performance ends with the two realizing there are higher powers in the universe than the Q.

Q appears in five different Star Trek shows

While Star Trek fans may love Q, the producers and writers tend to use him sparingly, arguing that the super being is more effective when he only appears every now and then. Nevertheless, Q has managed to appear in four separate Star Trek television shows — and will appear in a fifth when season 2 of Star Trek: Picard comes out.

Unsurprisingly, most of Q's appearances are in Star Trek: The Next Generation where he manages to annoy or threaten Picard and the Enterprise crew on eight separate occasions, including in the series pilot and the series finale. Q also appears in the  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1 episode "Q-Less" where he meets (and boxes with) Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks).

Q is reimagined in the three Star Trek: Voyager episodes he appears in, which portray him as a reluctant family man as well as a representative of the Q Continuum rather than a wandering rogue. His most recent appearance is an extremely brief cameo in the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks season 1 episode "Veritas," where he shows up just to poke fun at (who else?) Jean-Luc Picard.

Given all the different ways Q has been portrayed over the years, it's anyone's guess how de Lancie will play the trickster in Star Trek: Picard. Considering that Q's main appeal has always been his unpredictability, here's hoping his next appearance will show us some new truths of the enigmatic Q.

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Q (Star Trek)

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The  Q are a race of godlike, higher-dimensional beings featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation and in Star Trek: Voyager . Known for their "omnipotence," throughout the universe, the Q generally do as they please, inflicting strife and lording over other beings as if they were gods without any fear of consequences or accountability (except that of the Q Continuum's), even if the effects of such were unintended, causing many races to both revere and fear them. However, they have also served in advisory or beneficial roles, such as the arbiter to the United Federation of Planets' flagship captain , played by John de Lancie, who eventually struck up a sort of master/student or even possibly friend bond with its human captain.

Powers and Stats

Tier :   1-B

Origin: Star Trek (TNG, VOY, and DS9, as well as comics)

Gender: Male

Age:  Irrelevant

Classification: Q, Godlike being

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics , Higher-Dimensional Existence , Reality Warping , Space - Time Manipulation , Immortality (Types 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 [reliant on the Q Continuum] and 9), Enhanced Senses , Cosmic Awareness , Precognition , Shapeshifting , Teleportation ,  Telepathy , True Flight ,  Explosion Manipulation (Amanda Rogers contained a warp-core breach), Radiation Manipulation , Duplication (The Q who interacted with the Enterprise created an exact replica of himself to testify against Quinn),  Telekinesis , Technology Manipulation (Gave Data, an artificial machine lifeform, the ability to spontaneously feel real emotion. Q-Junior gave the replicators aboard the U.S.S Voyager personalities), Martial Arts (sparred with Benjamin Sisko), Size Manipulation (Quinn shrunk the USS Voyager down to sub-atomic scales), Mind Manipulation , Statistics Reduction (Capable of reducing every aspect of a target's existence; this is not limited by the powers of another Q), Statistics Amplification (Up to granting other entities Q-like powers, as well as amplifying his and other Q's statistics),  Light Manipulation , Darkness Manipulation , Time Stop (Able to completely freeze and negate time itself), Time Travel (Takes Picard back billions of years to the birth of humanity, and can travel even before the birth of the universe),  Resurrection (When Riker had Q powers he can potentially revive the dead, but swore not to because of an oath),  Portal Creation , Healing (Restored Geordi LaForge's eyesight), Invisibility (Can appear and disappear instantaneously, or take on a form which is immaterial),  Empathic Manipulation (Amanda Rogers made Riker fall in love with her), Perception Manipulation (Can appear as different things to different people and change living beings' senses easily),  Dimensional BFR (Can instantly move Voyager to a place outside of the space-time continuum), Creation (Created human females, a series of dogs, and various other objects throughout the series, as well as multiple alternate timelines),  Matter Manipulation , Memory Manipulation (Can easily change and erase memories),  Forcefield Creation (Created a large energy net to trap the Enterprise-D),  Transformation and Transmutation (Can morph objects as they see fit),  Acausality  (Type 2 and 4, the Q are eternal, lacking a beggining or end in the sense we understand them, and exist on neither regular nor backwards causality),  Summoning (Can summon other Q to them as well as banishing them),  Pocket Reality Manipulation (Transferred Picard to such a realm numerous times throughout TNG), Imperceptibility (can become non-corporeal , intangible , ingustable, invisible , inaudible, inodorous), Biological Manipulation , Plant Manipulation , Animal Manipulation , Body Control , Non-Physical Interaction , Elemental Manipulation , Ice Manipulation , Earth Manipulation (Q Junior, an inexperienced Q, was shifting the continental shelves and tectonic plates of various planets), Cloth Manipulation , Air Manipulation ,  Plasma Manipulation (Q weapons' damage to subspace causes supernovae in realspace as a side effect), Fate Manipulation (Revealed in "All Good Things" that the Q were taking steps to affect Humanity as a whole's evolution into another stage of existence), Status Effect Inducement (Placed Tasha Yar in a penalty box she couldn't escape from), Resurrection and Soul Manipulation (Was able to retrieve Picard's essence after death and bring him back to life),  Information Manipulation , Data Manipulation (Can manipulate holodeck matter and its holomatrices), Probability Manipulation (Able to accurately detect and change the trajectory of planets, stars and other celestial bodies),  Weather Manipulation (A group of Q killed Amanda Rogers' parents in a tornado; she later altered an entire atmosphere),  Sealing (The Enterprise's Q sealed Quinn inside a comet),  Energy Manipulation , Gravity Manipulation ,  Clairvoyance , Age Manipulation (Riker with Q powers instantly turned Wesley Crusher into an adult), Life Manipulation , Death Manipulation , Law Manipulation  (Imposed an abstract trial on humanity which if failed, would cause their immediate extinction), Science Manipulation, Mathematics Manipulation , Physics Manipulation  and Quantum Manipulation (Could effortlessly modify the gravitational constant of the universe with merely a click of his fingers), Void Manipulation (Could create realms of pure nothingness, like the one he referred to as the "afterlife"), Conceptual Manipulation (Capable of assuming and modifying concepts to match the expectations of observers), Durability Negation with Q Weapons,  Regeneration (Mid-Godly. Can regenerate from Q weapons rather quickly, which damage the fabric of space-time itself, though these can supposedly kill them if they endure too much punishment. However, a suicidal Q was completely unable to kill himself, and needed to become mortal to properly commit suicide, implying that Q weapons either destroy the Q's physical self only, or that such weapons nullify immortality  or regen. The same weapons could have erased a human from existence entirely),  Power Bestowal  (Can grant the full extent of his abilities to another being, not losing any power himself), Abstract Existence (Type 1; Some Q, when observed by lower dimensional beings, could take the form of abstract words and things which mortals could understand),  Power Nullification  (Q could remove the powers that Riker had received from him and those of another Q), Vector Manipulation (Hurled the Enterprise through space, with the former eventually meeting the Borg due to this action), Large Size (Type 10), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and 3),  Higher-Dimensional Manipulation  (The Q exist in a higher dimensional layer of subspace and had total control over its parameters), Existence Erasure  (Was going to erase Tasha Yar from existence if the crew of the Enterprise attempted to get around his game), Sleep Manipulation (Caused Julian Bashir to feel sleepy), Poison Manipulation , Disease Manipulation (Inflicted Vash with an array of ailments), Dream Manipulation and Illusion Creation (Should be able to utilize these abilities to a far greater degree than the Travelers ), Causality Manipulation (Able to create causality loops which trap targets in a constant stream of events, as well as likely being able to manipulate the likes of the antimatter universe, which functioned according to backward causality), Fusionism (Can fuse with other beings), possibly  Magic (Via transcendence of the Megan universe, a universe where magic governened the laws of nature), Antimatter Manipulation (Via transcendence of the antimatter universe), and Fluid Manipulation (Via transcendence of Fluidic space, a separate universe/parallel dimension where space is entirely fluid), Vehicular Mastery (Can operate auxiliary crafts), Weapon Mastery (Can create and use any weapons as shown with his guises, and Q-Weapons),  Nigh-Omniscience ( Genius Intelligence is retained if a Q somehow gets reduced to a mere mortal), Stealth Mastery (incapable of being sensed by those lesser than a "God"), Resistance to BFR , Energy Manipulation , Matter Manipulation , Time Manipulation , Spatial Manipulation ,  Reality Warping ,  Information Analysis ,  Data Manipulation (Cannot be scanned by a ship's sensors),  Mind Manipulation ,  Telepathy (Deanna Troi was unable to read him), and  Cosmic Awareness  (Can deceive other Q), and Two Q can resist the effects of each other

Attack Potency :   Hyperverse level (Existed in a realm outside of the multiverse which transcended space-time and subspace alike, the latter of which being home to "infinite domains and universes". Vastly superior to the  Travelers , beings who transcended space-time, could create universes, and were stated to be from a higher dimension imperceptible to humans. The Q were able to effortlessly affect the laws of the space-time continuum to a much higher degree than the former with their vast reality warping powers, redefining the laws of reality with merely a casual thought or snap of their fingers, such as the gravitational constant of the universe. When the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager visited the Q Continuum, they were unable to perceive the true nature of its reality from the limitations of their perspective. The Q Continuum itself is an extra-dimensional realm outside the space-time continuum, and Q should have full control over subspace, a realm directly related to the existence of higher dimensions, of which there are confirmed to be at least 18 of , with the possible existence of 26 dimensions being referenced in "The Nth Degree [TNG]," [a reference to Bosonic String Theory ], and likely a countless number more, as subspace was canonically shown to at least be a concrete link to higher dimensions, and contained infinite layers and cells, being compared to a honeycomb on at least one occasion. Furthermore, the Q have been stated to encompass the " limitless dimensions of the galaxy ". Q-Weapons ignore conventional durability )

Speed : Immeasurable

Lifting Strength : Immeasurable

Striking Strength :   Hyperverse level

Durability :   Hyperverse level (A suicidal Q, Quinn, cannot even slightly harm himself, even with the effects of the Big Bang. Shows complete resistance to phenomena of all kinds, including space-time and subspace damage in the regular universe as a result of Q Weapons being discharged, and survived the collapse of several alternate timelines, unfazed. Unaffected by the powers of other individual Q)

Stamina :  Infinite

Range : Hyperversal (Can affect a multitude of different timelines, infinite alternate universes and a myriad of domains, as well as at least 18 and up to a limitless number of higher dimensions)

Standard Equipment : Q-Weapons

Intelligence :   Nigh-Omniscient (Knew almost literally everything there was to know in the universe and beyond, and when turned into an ordinary human with no powers by the Continuum, the rebel Q encountered by Picard boasted an astonishing IQ of 2005)

Weaknesses: Weapons made by other Q.

Note: This profile only covers the appearance of the eponymously named  rebel Q which made contact with Jean-Luc Picard on the Enterprise-D and individual Q, like Amanda Rogers, William T. Riker (briefly) and Quinn. For the race itself, see the  Q Continuum . For the fusion between Q and the wormhole-alien Prophet from DS9, see Q-Prophet .

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Q Continuum

The Q Continuum, as made perceivable to Humans

A symbolic representation of the Q's existence

The Q Continuum was an extra-dimensional plane of existence inhabited by a race of beings known as the Q . The term could also refer to the Q society itself.

As a race, the Q were immortal, but not absolutely omniscient or omnipotent (according to Quinn ). They possessed the ability to alter, create, or destroy virtually any form of matter or energy , and to affect time in essentially any way they chose. Their apparent abilities included moving entire asteroid belts and stars , creating alternate timelines , and affecting universal states of nature such as the gravitational constant . Q , when discussing the dangers of allowing Amanda Rogers to develop her abilities without supervision, offhandedly remarked that she would be capable of destroying the entire Milky Way Galaxy by accident. In fact, the only time a Q was seen as un able to do something was during a period where their powers were reduced or revoked by the Continuum. ( TNG : " Deja Q ", " Tapestry ", " All Good Things... ")

The Q claimed to have always existed, and their origins (if they had any), are unknown. ( VOY : " The Q and the Grey ")

Based on descriptions by numerous Q, including the Q later known as Quinn, as well as Amanda Rogers (the child of two Q in Human form), the Q Continuum was a very highly ordered society, though it was also a virtually stagnant one.

In the beginnings of what Quinn called the "new era", the Q engaged in constant dialogues of discovery and other universal issues. However, eventually, the Q came to realize that they had experienced, observed, or discussed literally everything imaginable. This resulted in the virtual shutdown of the Continuum as a society, as the immortal beings simply saw no point in even conversing with one another anymore. This resulted in one of the Q, Q, deciding to simply use his powers to stir up trouble and cause chaos, simply because there was nothing else to do. As a result of Q's rebellious behavior, Quinn, a respected philosopher in the Continuum, decided that he wanted to shake things up even further by committing suicide , as he not only saw no purpose in continuing to exist, but wanted to break the monotonous stagnation afflicting the Continuum. The Continuum, however, stopped him from doing so because they were unable to predict what sort of societal chaos might result in the Continuum as a result of a Q committing suicide.

Quinn was imprisoned on a rogue comet for eternity to prevent him from ending his own life, until he was accidentally released by the crew of the USS Voyager in 2372 . In a courtroom hearing to determine his right to political asylum , Quinn described the Continuum as a lazy, old way station along a deserted desert road – he argued that the road could take them to anywhere in the universe, but the Q had already been everywhere. In addition, everything both old and new had already been discussed, and so the roadhouse was silent – there was nothing left to say. Therefore, Quinn argued that being forced to remain alive was a continued burden to him, a burden that he did not want to continue to bear. Q argued that the death of a Q would create chaos in the Continuum. Voyager captain Kathryn Janeway ruled in Quinn's favor, granting him asylum. A day later, Quinn committed suicide. ( VOY : " Death Wish ")

As a result of Quinn's action, the Continuum was plunged into a massively destructive civil war that set the " Freedom Faction " against the traditional Q. The two factions were able to construct weapons that could even compromise the immortality of a Q. When these weapons were fired in the Continuum, this resulted in massive damage to subspace , causing some stars in normal space to go supernova . Eventually, it damaged subspace to such an extent that Q outside of the Continuum lost their powers and immortality.

Q had the idea of mating with Janeway to produce a being with the powers of a Q, and to put the morals of a Human to use in order to end the war. The crew of Voyager flew through a supernova into the Continuum with help from a female Q , who had lost her powers and could not return without Voyager 's help. Voyager 's crew quickly overpowered the Q by using Q weapons. A ceasefire was called. Q mated with the female Q instead of Janeway, the damage to subspace was undone and it was restored. ( VOY : " The Q and the Grey ")

Later on, the new Q became an intergalactic troublemaker. He started wars between innocent races, knocked planets out of orbit , detonated Omega molecules , and created havoc in every way he could. His mother disowned him, humiliated by his actions. Q, however, followed him, cleaning up all the damage.

Under advice from Janeway, Q implemented punishment on the boy. Q dumped him on Voyager , and, with the help of the "Q government", took away his powers. Q Junior , as he was called by his father, had one week to become a good citizen, or he would be sentenced to eternity as an Oprelian amoeba . Junior did well for the first few days, until he stole the Delta Flyer . After his friend Icheb was injured, however, he returned to Voyager . Janeway made him apologize to the ship he attacked, which was in fact Q, who masqueraded as a likely target to test his son's attitude.

When Judgment Day came, Junior was still found unworthy of being a Q, but was good enough to be a Human. After this sentence, Q threatened to leave the Continuum unless his son was allowed to stay. After further pleading, the Continuum agreed to grant the young Q's powers back to him on the condition that his father act as his guardian and supervisor in perpetuity , or at least until he could prove himself worthy. ( VOY : " Q2 ")

By 2399 , Cristóbal Rios and at least one of his ship 's holograms knew of the Q Continuum. The hologram in question, the ENH , described Jean-Luc Picard as the "Chief Contact" with the Continuum. ( PIC : " The End is the Beginning ")

The last known contact between the Federation and the Q Continuum was in approximately 2590 . In 3190 , Federation Security considered the Continuum as a possible candidate for Unknown Species 10-C , the creators of the Dark Matter Anomaly ; however, they were not considered likely candidates, as there had been no contact with them for 600 years and the DMA was unlike anything the Q had done before. ( DIS : " The Examples ")

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Apocrypha [ ].

The history of the Q Continuum is explored in the Q Continuum series , which features flashbacks to Q's "youth", including him being sentenced to safeguard Earth as punishment after his actions released a powerful entity known as " 0 " into the universe when Earth was damaged in the last stage of the war with 0 and his allies, which included Gorgan and the Beta XII-A entity . The conclusion of the trilogy sees 0 briefly return to this universe, achieving a level of power temporarily beyond even Q himself as his insanity from millennia of solitude allows him to warp reality at a fundamental level that Q would never be able to do without risking damage to himself. The series revealed that the Continuum was responsible for the creation of the Galactic barrier and for the imprisonment of the entity they knew as The One on the planet dubbed " Sha Ka Ree " by Sybok . This barrier was weakened as a result of the civil war in the Continuum, which was what allowed 0 to make his return, but later repaired after 0 was exiled yet again.

In The Eternal Tide , it is revealed that the Q Continuum manifested as a creative force to "oppose" the destructive potential of the Omega Continuum after it was disrupted and the decay of the universe accelerated. Voyager is later able to slow down the decay to a more tolerable level – shortening the universe's lifespan by a few million years rather than by trillions – as the only way to completely halt and undo the disruption would have erased the Q Continuum from existence as their creative force was no longer "needed". Eternal Tide also reveals that there are at least six rules that the Q must obey, with number six being "Don't bring the dead back to life", as the consequences of such an action can be problematic as not even the Q fully know what happens after death.

In the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc The Q Gambit , it is revealed that the higher species are at war and the Q Continuum is on the verge of defeat. Galvanized by their victory over the Prophets , the Pah-wraiths have turned on their other neighbors. Not even the Q can stop their onslaught because in spite of all the power the Q wield in the three-dimensional universe, they are as powerless and clueless as Humans in their own realm. Unable to find a path to victory, Q left to seek the counsel of Picard on what action to take. But when he couldn't get an answer, Q left for the alternate reality , intended to instead seek the counsel of James T. Kirk for his experience in triumphing over no-win scenarios .

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What can kill Q (from Star Trek)?

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Didn't Voyager have some kind of Q weapons which can actually kill Q? 

Only another Q can kill Q. Voyager had no weapons that could kill Q.

what are you guys talking about

Beyonder (SW), Michael or Lucifer, Mxy, to name just a few.

Ultimate Nullifier

@Assman : What about Max Faraday pre-suicide?

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Probably a lot of things. Pretty sure Q said that the Q are not omnipotent, despite popular opinion.    But yeah, Q can kill other Q.

Probably a lot of things. Pretty sure Q said that the Q are not omnipotent, despite popular opinion.   But yeah, Q can kill other Q.

@JediXMan said: Probably a lot of things. Pretty sure Q said that the Q are not omnipotent, despite popular opinion.   But yeah, Q can kill other Q.

@JediXMan : Thanks bro.

My S can kill Q :)

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It was shown in the show that other Q could permanently effect Q. They punished him several times. That seems to imply that other sufficiently powerful reality manipulators could do the same.    It depends on the power levels you think they would have in respect to one another.

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During their civil war, the Q fashioned weapons suitable for the Q to kill each other with, and at one point, several crew members of U.S.S. Voyager did get their hands on some of them. Because humans are not capable of comprehending the continuum (the native realm of the Q) as it truly is, their perception of it was made to resemble that of a scene from the U.S.'s civil war. The weapons capable of killing the Q looked like civil war muskets & pistols.

@Goldfinch said:

Didn't Voyager have some kind of Q weapons which can actually kill Q?

I'd say any character that, on actual feats, is way above the Q and can attack in ways beyond the purely physical could kill him. Beyonder, Galactus, Living Tribunal, Celestials (some of them anyway), had vastly superior feats even though I love Q and am tempted to play the "omnipotence" card. But that word gets tossed around easily and applied to characters that clearly are not omnipotent.

With enough time...Guinan. (Whoopi Goldbreg's character.)

@Void_Paladin said:

I will never understand why Q was afraid of Guinan, obviously Q is not that powerful...

Adult Franklin Richards

Choas Gods or C'Tan.

@Void_Paladin said: With enough time...Guinan. (Whoopi Goldbreg's character.)

He was not scared of her. He was repulsed by her. She was annoying to him. And she was probably granted some other kind of power by another Q.

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Anything omnipotent. God Spwan. Galactus. Malebolgia. Celestials. A few non-omnipotents who might.

@joshmightbe said:

He was never afraid of her, in fact he said: Picard, if you had half the sense you pretend to have, you would get her off your ship immediately -- and if you like I will be more than pleased to expedite her departure.

@Picard said:

@Goldfinch said: @Void_Paladin said: With enough time...Guinan. (Whoopi Goldbreg's character.)

It's implied that Guinan has some kind of relationship with the Guardian of Forever.

I wouldn't be surprised if she had a Q musket under the bar.

Galactus can't defeat Q.

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@AtPhantom said:

@venomsapprentice said: It's implied that Guinan has some kind of relationship with the Guardian of Forever.

I think it was an alternate version of Guinan. I'll need to re-check it though. I could be completely wrong.

@Picard said: @Goldfinch said: @Void_Paladin said: With enough time...Guinan. (Whoopi Goldbreg's character.)

In Star Trek canon? No. Also muskets you referring to are only symbolic representation Q weapons, they realy don't look that way. Also I doubt that Guinan have such powerful weapon and never used it against against the Borg etc.

Q has stated that he is indeed omnipotent (TNG: True Q). I don't think he can be killed. Perhaps by other omnipotent beings they can.

You must be talking about Engines of Destiny. Star Trek novels arn't canon. Q wasn't afraid of her, he just didn't like her and vice versa.

@Fetts said:

Yeah, a statement from a well known consumate liar is not the most reliable thing in the world. Especially when we have other Q contradicting it.

He can be killed, this is made very clear in Voyager when he's injured by Q weaponry. It's also impossible for him to be omnipotent, as you cannot be omnipotent if you are equal in power to anything else, and he is equal in power to other Q.

@Fetts said: Q has stated that he is indeed omnipotent (TNG: True Q). I don't think he can be killed. Perhaps by other omnipotent beings they can.

@AtPhantom said: @Fetts said: Q has stated that he is indeed omnipotent (TNG: True Q). I don't think he can be killed. Perhaps by other omnipotent beings they can.

It's not just a disguised Q power either, because humans were able to wield the weapons.

@Baldy : Ah. I see. Though I'd ask if all of this was legit. I mean, why would Q willingly go out like that, when he could have just snapped the muskets out of existence? Was he perhaps toying with everybody? Even if he was willing to die he seemingly didn't want Janeway to be killed in the process. He could have snapped her to a safe distance. He almost seemed... powerless. Was that other Q dampening his powers or something?

@Fetts said: @AtPhantom said: @Fetts said: Q has stated that he is indeed omnipotent (TNG: True Q). I don't think he can be killed. Perhaps by other omnipotent beings they can.

@8765309 : That, I have seen. Let it be noted that really is no evidence of Q actually being harmed. He is clearly shocked but he doesn't seem to be hurt in any way.

@Fetts : lol it was just a joke. evidence has already been posted. Q weapons can kill Q's. The weapons biggest feat is making Suns supernova. The 1th Doctor made a sun go supernova with his Tardis just to send a Goodbye message to Rose. Quinn stated Q's are not Immortal in his conversation with Tuvok in the episode Death Wish. Q wanted to turn Striker into a Q. They said Humans would become more powerful than the Q continuum. Q's aren't immortal. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. They aren't even the most powerful beings feat wise in the Star Trek Universe in my opinion.

You can't kill immortal beings you can DEFEAT them but you can't KILL them. And i say SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!!!!!!

@8765309 said: @Fetts : lol it was just a joke. evidence has already been posted. Q weapons can kill Q's. The weapons biggest feat is making Suns supernova. The 1th Doctor made a sun go supernova with his Tardis just to send a Goodbye message to Rose. Quinn stated Q's are not Immortal in his conversation with Tuvok in the episode Death Wish. Q wanted to turn Striker into a Q. They said Humans would become more powerful than the Q continuum. Q's aren't immortal. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. They aren't even the most powerful beings feat wise in the Star Trek Universe in my opinion.

@Fetts said: @8765309 said: @Fetts : lol it was just a joke. evidence has already been posted. Q weapons can kill Q's. The weapons biggest feat is making Suns supernova. The 1th Doctor made a sun go supernova with his Tardis just to send a Goodbye message to Rose. Quinn stated Q's are not Immortal in his conversation with Tuvok in the episode Death Wish. Q wanted to turn Striker into a Q. They said Humans would become more powerful than the Q continuum. Q's aren't immortal. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. They aren't even the most powerful beings feat wise in the Star Trek Universe in my opinion.

@Baldy said:

@venomsapprentice said: @Picard said: @Goldfinch said: @Void_Paladin said: With enough time...Guinan. (Whoopi Goldbreg's character.)

Yeah that was it. Whatever the case, she must have SOMETHING to put Q on edge.

Yes, he is equal in power to other members of his own species, who also can be omnipotent - how thas this prove that Q Continuum is not all powerful? Also Voyager writing... not the best in the word...

@8765309 said:

@Fetts : lol it was just a joke. evidence has already been posted. Q weapons can kill Q's. The weapons biggest feat is making Suns supernova. The 1th Doctor made a sun go supernova with his Tardis just to send a Goodbye message to Rose. Quinn stated Q's are not Immortal in his conversation with Tuvok in the episode Death Wish. Q wanted to turn Striker into a Q. They said Humans would become more powerful than the Q continuum. Q's aren't immortal. It's not an opinion. It's a fact. They aren't even the most powerful beings feat wise in the Star Trek Universe in my opinion.

No, Q are immortal - entire episode was about consequences of member of Continuum dying - that never happened before. Thats why Continuum didn't let Quinn to commit suicide. Also blowing up stars - that was only side effect of Q's weapon, those weapons were used on entirely different plane of existence yet they still could affect our reality in significant way...

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NSEA Protector – New Ship in Star Trek Fleet Command

By Bek 8 August 2024

“Oh my god. It’s real.” -Alexander Dane

By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a ship! The NSEA Protector has arrived, and as the centerpiece of the Galaxy Quest crossover month it comes with many exciting features that are guaranteed to thrill all Questarians! The ship itself is designed for Commanders of levels 40 and up, is of the Explorer type, and has a maximum level of 75 (Tier 15). As the NSEA Protector is itself not of this universe, it is uniquely equipped to deal with the challenges of the Mirror Universe, and its abilities are largely focused on overcoming those challenges. Here is an explanation of the abilities that the NSEA Protector has:

Quantum Flux

Increases damage to Mirror Universe hostiles.

Trellium Chompers

Increases mining speed of raw Trellium. The NSEA Protector can be used to mine raw Trellium, and it can become more effective at it than any survey!

Magnetic Minefield Immunity

Provides immunity to the new Magnetic Minefield hazard. This hazard features prominently in the new Mirror Universe systems that have been added this month as part of the NSEA Protector upgrade loop.

The secret power of the NSEA Protector, the power to rewind time by 13 seconds. It’s not much, but it is enough to undo one mistake! The Omega-13 is an active ship ability that can target the NSEA Protector itself, or any other ships in the system. While active, that ship will be able to avoid being destroyed by rewinding time to make a different choice. The result of the combat will not change for the other ship involved, but the Omega-13 will ensure that the affected ship will not have been destroyed. No cargo will be lost, and the ship will be “rewound” to a set percentage of its HP. This percentage can be improved with research and with the K’ragk-Vort’t refit.

Due to the instantaneous destruction caused by the Borg Cutting Beam, the Omega-13 cannot prevent destruction by that means. It also cannot prevent destruction from hazards. 13 seconds just isn’t enough time to avoid getting into range of the cutting beam, or to avoid even flying into the system with the hazard.

How to improve the NSEA Protector:

In order to upgrade your NSEA Protector, you will need Beryllium Spheres. To get those, you need to start by getting some Raw Omega Trellium. As with the previously seen Raw Trellium-A and Raw Trellium-D, you will have to venture into the Mirror Universe to get it. Several new systems have been added to the Mirror Universe with new hostiles that drop Raw Omega Trellium, and you can get to them through Mirror Nausicaa. Mirror Nausicaa can be reached through a new rift that can be found in Mirror Axanar. Mirror Axanar is directly on the other side of the entry rift found in Mirror Alpha Centauri, so if you choose Mirror Alpha Centauri as your entry point, it won’t take long to get to the new systems. Beware though, once you get past Mirror Nausicaa, all these systems are extremely hazardous! The new Magnetic Minefield hazard is particularly potent in these systems, and will quickly destroy any ship that enters that is not the NSEA Protector.

Once you have Raw Omega-Trellium, it can be refined in the Mirror Universe refinery, producing Liquid Omega Trellium and Omega Mirror Dust, the latter of which is used to research the new nodes that have been added to the Mirror Research Tree. Several of these nodes specifically enhance the NSEA Protector, so be sure to check them out!

Liquid Omega Trellium can be exchanged in the refinery in a manner similar to Liquid Trellium-D, and it is there that you can acquire the Beryllium Spheres necessary to upgrade the NSEA Protector. Several other exciting options are available in the Liquid Omega Trellium exchange, such as Mirror Dust, sourcing for certain Prime particles and even a refit for the NSEA Protector!

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Star Trek Has Always Loved Doctor Who — Here's the Proof

Starfleet and the Time Lords exist in different universes. But in our universe, Star Trek's nods to Doctor Who are very real.

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During San Diego Comic-Con 2024, the showrunner of Doctor Who , Russell T Davies sat down with Star Trek 's overall executive producer Alex Kurtzman in celebration of Intergalactic Friendship Day .

It was an unprecedented moment, in which the Trek and Who franchises publicly acknowledged that their two fandoms crossover, and that in some ways, at least philosophically, these two worlds crossover.

But what if we told you this wasn't the first time Star Trek had given Doctor Who a public high-five?

The truth is, while Doctor Who has been dropping several Trek references since its revival in 2005, there are several examples of the Star Trek franchise overtly — or covertly — referencing the timey-wimey adventures of the TARDIS. Here's a brief guide to Star Trek 's references to Doctor Who , throughout all time and space.

Sonic Drivers and Reversing the Polarity

"Cupid's Errant Arrow"

Fans of Doctor Who know that the titular Time Lord uses a multitool called a "sonic screwdriver." More than just a repair tool, the sonic acts as a kind of scanner, a transmitter, and sometimes as a defensive weapon. But this spacey tool seemingly exists in various forms in Star Trek , too. In Star Trek: The Next Generation 's " The Naked Now ," frustrated with a locked door, Riker asks "Where's that sonic driver?"

In Star Trek: Lower Decks ' " Cupid's Errant Arrow ," Lt. Barbara Brinson said “I managed to reverse the polarity and reboot the time stream.” Starting with the 1972 Doctor Who serial, the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) suggested "reversing the polarity of the neutron flow" to get out of a sci-fi pickle.

The idea of "reversing" a polarity didn't originate with Doctor Who per se, but it was certainly popularized by that series, a fact which various Star Trek incarnations have referenced many times. The Lower Decks shout-out is perhaps the most obvious because Barb also mentions rebooting the time stream, something that seems to happen often on Doctor Who . That said, Chief O'Brien, Geordi La Forge, and B'Elanna Torres had to reverse the polarity all the time.

The Other TARDIS?

"Future Tense"

In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Future Tense ," the crew of the NX-01 encounters a small-ish pod that seems to be from the far future. While initially seeming very small, Reed, Archer, T'Pol and Trip soon learn this pod is much bigger on the inside than the outside. The crew discovers this ship operates using a "temporal displacement drive," which allows its dimensions to be much larger inside than out.

Enterprise writer and producer Mike Sussman has noted that the idea of this timeship was directly inspired by Doctor Who 's TARDIS, and at one point, he'd even suggested that the ship could briefly be seen "morphing into a police call box," which was "nixed" by higher-ups at the time. That said, on some level, this idea still exists within the episode, which means we can't completely rule out that in some way, shape, or form, the timeship from Enterprise wasn't a TARDIS. Nobody is saying it is a TARDIS. But nobody's saying it isn't.

Just…The Doctor

"Message in a Bottle"

In the reality of Doctor Who , the Time Lord who stars in all the adventures, isn't actually named "Doctor Who," at least, we don't think so. Instead, they are called "The Doctor," a kind of fancy honorific that is also a proper name.

While this would be somewhat silly in real life, Star Trek fans are accustomed to this sort of thing. The omnipotent space deities all refer to themselves as "Q," despite all being different beings. The holographic Emergency Medical Hologram on Star Trek: Voyager decided to refer to himself as just "The Doctor," which makes him very much like The Doctor of Doctor Who .

Versions of the Doctor also crop up, in the 1985 Star Trek novel Ishmael , by Barbara Hambly, in which Kirk even seems to have knowledge of time travelers from the "Kasterborous galaxy," a clear reference to the home of the Time Lords, and the Doctor in Doctor Who .

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So, did Kirk and Spock ever meet a Time Lord? Well, in the 2012-2013 comic book crossover Assimilation², Kirk and Spock did meet the Fourth Doctor in a flashback, while the rest of the crossover concerned a team-up between the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, and the entire crew of the Enterprise -D.

Written by Scott Tipton, David Tipton, and Tony Lee, this crossover also made it clear that Guinan was aware of The Doctor, and that through her unique perception of time and space, was also aware when the timeline had been altered. This suggests that the Doctor's ability to perceive time and space is very similar to Guinan's, which could make the long-lived El-Aurians a kind of version of the Time Lords for the Final Frontier.

Then again, there's also another group of time travelers in Star Trek that might want to steal that crown.

Timey-Wimey Traveler

"Assignment: Earth"

Starting with The Next Generation 's " Where No One Has Gone Before ," the Enterprise -D crew met "The Traveler," a character who could influence time and space through the power of thought.

Much later, we learned, in Star Trek: Picard Season 2, that the Travelers were a group of beings who exist outside of spacetime and try to oversee the proper flow of time, among other multiverse-maintenance tasks. Retroactively, this has meant that the very Doctor-ish Gary Seven — from The Original Series ' "Assignment: Earth" — has now been established as someone who worked as a "Supervisor" for the Travelers.

In the recently-aired Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, Wesley Crusher emerges as a kind of rogue Traveler, defying his instructions from the other Travelers to not interfere with the collapsing timeline of the Prime Universe. Throughout its second season, Wesley behaves very much like various versions of The Doctor from Doctor Who , starting with the fact that just like the Doctor defied the Time Lords in order to help people, Wesley ignores the instructions from the Travelers to leave well enough alone.

"The Devourer of All Things, Part I"

With a heroically long coat and a mind that is way ahead of his rapid-fire speech, Wesley’s latest incarnation is a clear homage to various Doctors, from Tom Baker to David Tennant to Matt Smith, to Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker. In our timeline, Wil Wheaton is a huge fan of both Star Trek and Doctor Who , making this crossover somewhat perfect for him in particular.

But beyond that, the writing team of Prodigy very obviously wanted Who fans to be seen. Not only does Wesley act like a Star Trek version of The Doctor, Dal mentions that the paradoxes of the Protostar 's journey is a "timey-wimey," a phrase coined by the Tenth Doctor from the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Blink."

So, what was once somewhat sly, is now clear. Star Trek has its own almost Time Lord in the form of Wesley Crusher, Starfleet heroes like Dal R'El know about timey-wimey problems, and in both universes, most outer space problems that can't be solved by reversing the polarity are probably way too big for one episode.

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Who Has Time Traveled In Modern Star Trek (& Why)?

• Star Trek often utilizes time travel to explore new storylines and introduce modern characters to classic moments.
• The modern era of Star Trek, including Discovery, Picard, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds, has revitalized interest in the franchise.
• Characters like Captain Michael Burnham, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard, and Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh have embarked on time-traveling adventures in the modern Star Trek universe.

Time travel has been a staple of Star Trek since the franchise began, and several modern Star Trek characters have journeyed through time. Since Star Trek: The Original Series, every Trek series has featured stories involving time travel. Whether Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew were going back in time to save the whales or Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) was being visited by an agent from the future, time travel has long been one of Star Trek's most successful tropes. It's no surprise, then, that modern Star Trek would dip back into the time travel well.

In 2017, Star Trek: Discovery ushered in a new era of Star Trek television shows in the modern world of streaming. The adventures of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery introduced new fans to the world of Star Trek and led to numerous spin-offs. Discovery and its first spin-off, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, began as prequels to TOS, exploring characters fans have already come to love. Star Trek: Picard, too, brought back some familiar faces, continuing the story of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). These shows, along with Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy , have made the modern era feel like a true Star Trek renaissance.

20 Best Star Trek Time Travel Episodes & Movies, Ranked

The Star Trek franchise has done a lot of time-travel stories in various shows and movies, and some have been undeniably better than others.

Captain Michael Burnham & The USS Discovery Crew

Star trek: discovery.

With the introduction of Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike and Ethan Peck as Lt. Spock, Star Trek: Discovery season 2 took the show in a new direction. As Michael Burnham and her crew explore the mysterious Red Bursts and the figure known as the Red Angel , they find themselves in a fight to save the galaxy from an artificial intelligence system called Control.

Captain Burnham eventually realizes that the only way to save the universe is to take the USS Discovery into the far future. Discovery season 2 ends with Burnham donning the Red Angel suit and leading Discovery into the 32nd century. No longer beholden to established Star Trek canon, Discovery found new life in the far future, as Burnham and her crew helped rebuild the devastated United Federation of Planets.

Soon after arriving in the 32nd century, Emperor Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) began experiencing negative side effects due to being displaced in time and dimension. Near the end of Discovery season 3, she was sent back in time and her story will continue in the upcoming Star Trek: Section 31 film.

Cast Blu del Barrio, Oded Fehr, Anthony Rapp, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Wilson Cruz, Eve Harlow, Mary Wiseman, Callum Keith Rennie

Release Date September 24, 2017

Showrunner Alex Kurtzman

Admiral Jean-Luc Picard & His Motley Crew

Star trek: picard season 2.

Star Trek: Picard season 2 sent Admiral Jean-Luc Picard and his friends back to the 21st century to prevent a dystopian alternate future. In an attempt to force Jean-Luc to confront his childhood trauma, Q (John de Lancie) strands Picard and his friends in a dark alternate future. With some help from the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) , Picard and his motley crew then travel back to 2024, where they must restore the proper future.

10 Good Things In Star Trek: Picard Season 2

Q's plans for Jean-Luc in Picard season 2 may have been illogical, but they don't detract from some great Star Trek moments for the La Sirena crew.

As Picard, Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd), Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), Cristóbal Rios (Santiago Cabrera), and Agnes Jurarti (Alison Pill) work to repair the past, Jean-Luc confronts suppressed memories from his childhood. Although the Borg Queen and disillusioned scientist Dr. Altan Soong (Brent Spiner) attempt to interfere, Picard and his friends are ultimately successful in restoring the timeline. While Rios elects to remain in the past, the rest of the crew returns to the 24th century.

Star Trek: Picard

Cast Orla Brady, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Jeri Ryan, Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Evan Evagora, Marina Sirtis, Amanda Plummer, Whoopi Goldberg, Gates McFadden, Todd Stashwick, Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd, John de Lancie, Ed Speleers

Release Date January 23, 2020

Showrunner Akiva Goldsman, Terry Matalas, Michael Chabon

Lt. Laan Noonien-Singh & Captain James T. Kirk (Alternate Timeline)

Star trek: strange new worlds season 2, episode 3 - "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow".

With her tragic past and connection to notorious tyrant Khan Noonien-Singh (Ricardo Montalban), La'an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) has proven to be one of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' best new characters. In "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," La'an's story gets another tragic chapter as she travels back in time with an alternate universe version of Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley).

As La'an and Kirk work to restore the proper future, they grow close to one another and La'an finally begins to open up. They eventually confront an undercover Romulan operative named Sera (Adelaide Kane) , who has a mission to alter the timeline by slowing human progress. Although La'an manages to thwart Sera's plan, Kirk is killed in the process. La'an then travels back to her own time, where she reaches out to a version of Kirk who has never met her.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Cast Bruce Horak, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Melissa Navia, Ethan Peck, Babs Olusanmokun, Rebecca Romijn, Paul Wesley, Christina Chong, Anson Mount

Release Date May 5, 2022

Showrunner Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers

Ensigns Bradward Boimler & Beckett Mariner

Star trek: strange new worlds season 2, episode 7 - "those old scientists".

In one of modern Star Trek's most fun episodes, Ensigns Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) of Star Trek: Lower Decks travel through a portal and emerge on the USS Enterprise of Captain Pike. Boimler arrives first and, although he keeps reminding himself not to disrupt the timeline, he cannot help but be excited about meeting his heroes. Before Captain Pike and his crew can find a way to send Boimler back to his time, an Orion ship arrives and steals the portal.

The Enterprise manages to retrieve the portal, but Mariner emerges from it before Burnham can step through. Boimler and Mariner help Pike and his crew see the Orions in a different light before they finally manage to return to their own time. Not only is the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover Star Trek at its best, but it is also a celebration of the franchise as a whole.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Cast Gabrielle Ruiz, Fred Tatasciore, Jerry O'Connell, dawnn lewis, Eugene Cordero, Tawny Newsome, Noel Wells, Jack Quaid

Release Date August 6, 2020

Showrunner Mike McMahan

USS Protostar Crew

Star trek: prodigy season 2.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 introduced Dal R'El (Brett Gray) and his ragtag crew aboard the USS Protostar, as they traveled the galaxy guided by a hologram of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). After they helped prevent the Living Construct from destroying Starfleet, Dal and his friends began preparing to join Starfleet Academy. At the beginning of Prodigy season 2, Admiral Kathryn Janeway recruits the former Protostar crew for a mission aboard the USS Voyager-A.

Prodigy season 2 sees Janeway set out to follow Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) through a wormhole and bring him home. Before Janeway can mount her rescue, however, Dal, Jankom Pog (Jason Mantzoukas), Zero (Angus Imrie), and Maj'el (Michaela Dietz) inadvertently travel through the wormhole into the future. Once there, they encounter Chakotay and accidentally disrupt the original timeline. Dal and his friends then convert their ship into a time machine and travel back to their time, where they now have to restore the timeline they disrupted.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Ending & Shocking Season 3 Set Up Explained

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 brings the time travel saga of the USS Protostar full circle. Here's what happened and what it all means for season 3.

Captain Chakotay & Adreek-Hu

Star trek: prodigy.

After the USS Voyager returned from the Delta Quadrant, Chakotay was promoted to captain and eventually took over command of the USS Protostar. During his first mission, the Protostar encountered a temporal anomaly and ended up on the planet Solum about fifty years in an alternate future. Chakotay and his First Officer, Adreek-Hu (Tommie Earl Jenkins), were captured by the Vau N'Akat and learned that their captors had placed a weapon known as the Living Construct on the Protostar.

Chakotay then sent the unmanned Protostar back in time, hoping that the weapon would never fall into the wrong hands. When Dal and his friends disrupted the timeline, Chakotay and Adreek traveled with the Protostar into the past, marooning themselves on the planet Ysida. With help from Traveler Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) , Dal and his friends find Chakotay ten years later, and help restore the proper timeline.

The Diviner (Ilthuran) & The Vindicator (Asencia)

When the USS Protostar appeared over their planet, the Vau N'Akat saw it as an opportunity to restore their species and get back at the Federation. The Federation had initiated First Contact with Solum fifty years before, and the planet had fallen into decades of civil war. The Vau N'Akat saw the Protostar as their only hope, but they lost that chance when Chakotay sent the ship back into the past unmanned.

The Vau N'Akat then formed The Order and sent several soldiers into the past in the hope that one of them would find the Protostar and save Solum. The Diviner (John Noble) and Ascencia (Jameela Jamil) were both members of The Order who successfully made it back to the past. Having narrowed the location of the Protostar down to Tars Lamora, the Diviner began operating a prison colony there to search for the ship.

Ascencia, meanwhile, infiltrated Starfleet and landed a position aboard the USS Dauntless under Admiral Janeway. Later, Ascencia killed the Diviner when his love for his daughter, Gwyndala (Ella Purnell), caused him to question his mission. Gwyndala later reconnected with Ilthuran, the younger version of her father, and the younger version of Ascenia also aided the Protostar crew. In its second season finale, Star Trek: Prodigy brought its story full circle, as the USS Protostar travels back to the past to close the loop, successfully restoring the proper Star Trek timeline.

Cast Rylee Alazraqui, Kate Mulgrew, John Noble, Jason Mantzoukas, Brett Gray, Angus Imrie, Ella Purnell, Dee Bradley Baker

Release Date October 28, 2021

Showrunner Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman

Attacks on Walz’s Military Record

By Robert Farley , D'Angelo Gore and Eugene Kiely

Posted on August 8, 2024 | Updated on August 12, 2024 | Corrected on August 9, 2024

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In introducing her pick for vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris has prominently touted Tim Walz’s 24 years of service in the Army National Guard. Now, however, GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance and the Trump campaign are attacking Walz on his military record, accusing the Minnesota governor of “stolen valor.”

We’ll sort through the facts surrounding the three main attacks on Walz’s military record and let readers decide their merit. The claims include:

• Vance claimed that Walz “dropped out” of the National Guard when he learned his battalion was slated to be deployed to Iraq. Walz retired to focus on a run for Congress two months before his unit got official word of impending deployment, though the possibility had been rumored for months.
• Vance also accused Walz of having once claimed to have served in combat, when he did not. While advocating a ban on assault-style weapons, Walz said, “We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.” Update, Aug. 12: The Harris campaign says that Walz “misspoke.”
• The Republican National Committee has criticized Walz for misrepresenting his military rank in campaign materials. The Harris campaign website salutes Walz for “rising to the rank of Command Sergeant Major.” Walz did rise to that rank, but he retired as a master sergeant because he had not completed the requirements of a command sergeant major.

A native of West Point, Nebraska, Walz joined the Nebraska Army National Guard in April 1981, two days after his 17th birthday. When Walz and his wife moved to Minnesota in 1996, he transferred to the Minnesota National Guard, where he served in 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery.

“While serving in Minnesota, his military occupational specialties were 13B – a cannon crewmember who operates and maintains cannons and 13Z -field artillery senior sergeant,” according to a statement released by Army Lt. Col. Kristen Augé, the Minnesota National Guard’s state public affairs officer.

According to MPR News , Walz suffered some hearing impairment related to exposure to cannon booms during training over the years, and he underwent some corrective surgery to address it.

On Aug. 3, 2003, “Walz mobilized with the Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery … to support Operation Enduring Freedom. The battalion supported security missions at various locations in Europe and Turkey. Governor Walz was stationed at Vicenza, Italy, during his deployment,” Augé stated. The deployment lasted about eight months.

“For 24 years I proudly wore the uniform of this nation,” Walz said at a rally in Philadelphia where he was announced as Harris’ running mate on Aug. 6. “The National Guard gave me purpose. It gave me the strength of a shared commitment to something greater than ourselves.”

Walz’s Retirement from the National Guard

In recent years, however, several of his fellow guard members have taken issue with the timing of Walz’s retirement from the National Guard in May 2005, claiming he left to avoid a deployment to Iraq.

Vance, who served a four-year active duty enlistment in the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent, serving in Iraq for six months in 2005, advanced that argument at a campaign event on Aug. 7.

“When the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it,” Vance said. “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him, a fact that he’s been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with. I think it’s shameful to prepare your unit to go to Iraq, to make a promise that you’re going to follow through and then to drop out right before you actually have to go.”

In early 2005, Walz, then a high school geography teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School, decided to run for public office. In a 2009 interview Walz provided as part of the Library of Congress’ veterans oral history project, Walz said he made the decision to retire from the National Guard to “focus full time” on a run for the U.S. House of Representatives for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District (which he ultimately won in 2006). Walz said he was “really concerned” about trying to seek public office and serve in the National Guard at the same time without running afoul of the Hatch Act , which limits political speech by federal employees, including members of the National Guard.

Federal Election Commission records show that Walz filed to run for Congress on Feb. 10, 2005.

On March 20, 2005, Walz’s campaign put out a press release titled “Walz Still Planning to Run for Congress Despite Possible Call to Duty in Iraq.”

Three days prior, the release said, “the National Guard Public Affairs Office announced a possible partial mobilization of roughly 2,000 troops from the Minnesota National Guard. … The announcement from the National Guard PAO specified that all or a portion of Walz’s battalion could be mobilized to serve in Iraq within the next two years.”

According to the release, “When asked about his possible deployment to Iraq Walz said, ‘I do not yet know if my artillery unit will be part of this mobilization and I am unable to comment further on specifics of the deployment.’ Although his tour of duty in Iraq might coincide with his campaign for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional seat, Walz is determined to stay in the race. ‘As Command Sergeant Major I have a responsibility not only to ready my battalion for Iraq, but also to serve if called on. I am dedicated to serving my country to the best of my ability, whether that is in Washington DC or in Iraq.'”

On March 23, 2005, the Pipestone County Star reported, “Detachments of the Minnesota National Guard have been ‘alerted’ of possible deployment to Iraq in mid-to-late 2006.”

“Major Kevin Olson of the Minnesota National Guard said a brigade-sized contingent of soldiers could be expected to be called to Iraq, but he was not, at this time, aware of which batteries would be called,” the story said. “All soldiers in the First Brigade combat team of the 34th Division, Minnesota National Guard, could be eligible for call-up. ‘We don’t know yet what the force is like’ he said. ‘It’s too early to speculate, if the (soldiers) do go.’

“He added: ‘We will have a major announcement if and when the alert order moves ahead.’”

ABC News spoke to Joseph Eustice, a retired command sergeant major who served with Walz, and he told the news organization this week that “he remembers Walz struggling with the timing of wanting to serve as a lawmaker but also avoiding asking for a deferment so he could do so.”

“He had a window of time,” Eustice told ABC News. “He had to decide. And in his deciding, we were not on notice to be deployed. There were rumors. There were lots of rumors, and we didn’t know where we were going until it was later that, early summer, I believe.”

Al Bonnifield, who served under Walz, also recalled Walz agonizing over the decision.

“It was a very long conversation behind closed doors,” Bonnifield told the Washington Post this week. “He was trying to decide where he could do better for soldiers, for veterans, for the country. He weighed that for a long time.”

In 2018, Bonnifield told MPR News that Walz worried in early 2005, “Would the soldier look down on him because he didn’t go with us? Would the common soldier say, ‘Hey, he didn’t go with us, he’s trying to skip out on a deployment?’ And he wasn’t. He talked with us for quite a while on that subject. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy. He loved the military, he loved the guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with.”

But not all of Walz’s fellow Guard members felt that way.

In a paid letter to the West Central Tribune in Minnesota in November 2018, Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr — both retired command sergeants major in the Minnesota National Guard — wrote, “On May 16th, 2005 he [Walz] quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty; as many reservists have.”

“For Tim Walz to abandon his fellow soldiers and quit when they needed experienced leadership most is disheartening,” they wrote. “When the nation called, he quit.”

Walz retired on May 16, 2005. Walz’s brigade received alert orders for mobilization on July 14, 2005, according to the National Guard and MPR News . The official mobilization report came the following month, and the unit mobilized and trained through the fall. It was finally deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2006.

The unit was originally scheduled to return in February 2007, but its tour was extended four months as part of President George W. Bush’s “surge” strategy , the National Guard reported. In all, the soldiers were mobilized for 22 months.

Responding to Vance’s claim that Walz retired to avoid deploying to Iraq, the Harris-Walz campaign released a statement saying, “After 24 years of military service, Governor Walz retired in 2005 and ran for Congress, where he was a tireless advocate for our men and women in uniform – and as Vice President of the United States he will continue to be a relentless champion for our veterans and military families.”

Walz on Carrying a Weapon ‘in War’

Vance also called Walz “dishonest” for a claim that Walz made in 2018 while speaking to a group about gun control.

“He made this interesting comment that the Kamala Harris campaign put out there,” Vance said, referring to a video of Walz that the Harris campaign posted to X on Aug. 6. “He said, ‘We shouldn’t allow weapons that I used in war to be on America’s streets.’ Well, I wonder, Tim Walz, when were you ever in war? What was this weapon that you carried into war given that you abandoned your unit right before they went to Iraq and he has not spent a day in a combat zone.”

In the video , Walz, who was campaigning for governor at the time, talked about pushing back on the National Rifle Association and said: “I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. … I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] research. We can make sure we don’t have reciprocal carry among states. And we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.”

But, as Vance indicated, there is no evidence that Walz carried a weapon “in war.”

Update, Aug. 12: In an Aug. 10 statement to CNN, the Harris campaign told CNN that Walz “misspoke.”

“In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor misspoke,” campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt said in the statement. “He did handle weapons of war and believes strongly that only military members trained to carry those deadly weapons should have access to them.”

As we said, Augé, in her statement, said Walz’s battalion deployed “to support Operation Enduring Freedom” on Aug. 3, 2003, and “supported security missions at various locations in Europe and Turkey.” During his deployment, Walz was stationed in Vicenza, Italy, and he returned to Minnesota in April 2004, Augé said. There was no mention of Walz serving in Afghanistan, Iraq or another combat zone.

In the 2009 interview for the veterans history project, Walz said he and members of his battalion initially thought they would “shoot artillery in Afghanistan,” as they had trained to do. That didn’t happen, he said, explaining that his group ended up helping with security and training while stationed at an Army base in Vicenza.

“I think in the beginning, many of my troops were disappointed,” Walz said in the interview. “I think they felt a little guilty, many of them, that they weren’t in the fight up front as this was happening.”

In an Aug. 8 statement addressing his claim about carrying weapons “in war,” the Harris campaign noted that Walz, whose military occupational specialties included field artillery senior sergeant, “fired and trained others to use weapons of war innumerable times” in his 24 years of service.

Walz’s National Guard Rank

The Republican National Committee has criticized Walz for saying “in campaign materials that he is a former ‘Command Sergeant Major’ in the Army National Guard despite not completing the requirements to hold the rank into retirement.”

Walz’s biography on the Harris campaign website correctly says that the governor “served for 24 years” in the National Guard, “rising to the rank of Command Sergeant Major.” 

Walz’s official biography on the Minnesota state website goes further, referring to the governor as “Command Sergeant Major Walz.”

“After 24 years in the Army National Guard, Command Sergeant Major Walz retired from the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion in 2005,” the state website says. 

Walz did serve as command sergeant major , but Walz did not complete the requirements to retire with the rank of command sergeant, Augé told us in an email. 

“He held multiple positions within field artillery such as firing battery chief, operations sergeant, first sergeant, and culminated his career serving as the command sergeant major for the battalion,” Augé said. “He retired as a master sergeant in 2005 for benefit purposes because he did not complete additional coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.”

This isn’t the first time that Walz’s National Guard rank has come up in a campaign. 

In their 2018 paid letter to the West Central Tribune, when Walz was running for governor, the two Minnesota National Guard retired command sergeants major who criticized Walz for retiring before the Iraq deployment also wrote: “Yes, he served at that rank, but was never qualified at that rank, and will receive retirement benefits at one rank below. You be the judge.”

Correction, Aug. 9: We mistakenly said a 2007 “surge” strategy in Iraq occurred under President Barack Obama. It was President George W. Bush.

Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure, Harris campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt was an undergraduate intern at FactCheck.org from 2010 to 2011.

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