"Star Trek’s 12 most Q episodes, ranked by chaotic energy" Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 Oct 2022 9:30 p.m. PST |
" Decades before the letter "Q" gained a sinister political connotation (and during a rare fallow period for the James Bond film franchise), the alphabet's most quizzical consonant became synonymous with Star Trek. Portrayed by actor John de Lancie, the omnipotent trickster god Q debuted in the series premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987 and developed into the show's signature antagonist, the perfect foil for disciplined, steadfastly moral Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Q has remained one of the most popular guest characters in the Star Trek franchise, appearing across five series including the new season of Star Trek: Picard. Q owes his longevity as a character to de Lancie's magnetic performance and to the multiple ways he can be employed in a Star Trek story. Q is an all-powerful authority, casting judgment over humanity and enforcing the cosmic status quo of the Q Continuum, but he's also a cartoonish agent of chaos who takes delight in befuddling straight-laced Starfleet Captains. Most of the best Q episodes find a balance between Q's two extremes, depicting him as part bully, part teacher, and part comic relief…"
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Fitzovich  | 13 Oct 2022 3:39 a.m. PST |
Never liked any of the Q episodes, character and certainly not the conspiracy theorists that are associated with the letter… |
| Choctaw | 13 Oct 2022 6:49 a.m. PST |
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| DyeHard | 13 Oct 2022 9:37 a.m. PST |
The Q of both the conspiracy theorists and of Star Trek almost certainly go back much further. Some 120 years plus.
"Q" was used for a mysterious source of knowledge back to at least 1900. The Q comes from the German word Quelle, which literally mean source. The letter Q was a stand in for a mysterious, undiscovered, document or set of documents from which other fragmentary information must have started. A sort of ultimate truth. |
| Frederick | 13 Oct 2022 11:36 a.m. PST |
I am with the general thread on this – while I think John de Lancie is an excellent actor, I always thought that Q was a lazy writer's approach to plot development for Star Trek Next Gen – easily my least favorite Star Trek character; for me, the Jar Jar Binks of Star Trek |
 BobTYW | 13 Oct 2022 1:01 p.m. PST |
The "Q" episode that I liked the best was when he sent the Enterprise into the future to meet the "BORG" for the first time. It was well done and set up further episodes.
Bob |
| ZULUPAUL | 13 Oct 2022 3:14 p.m. PST |
Couldn't stand "Q" at all. Seemed very infantile for such a "supreme entity". |
| Tango01 | 13 Oct 2022 8:43 p.m. PST |
Glup!… The Borg first contact was a good episode…
Armand
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 javelin98 | 15 Oct 2022 10:47 p.m. PST |
Q was far too arrogant and condescending for my taste. I usually turn off the episodes he appears in. |
| Tango01 | 16 Oct 2022 4:04 p.m. PST |
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