Q (Star Trek)

Tag Area: Fictional Character
TV Episode

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02)

Encounter at Farpoint

  • by D. C. Fontana
  • (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 28 September 1987) [syndicated]
As the new captain of the Enterprise and other new members of his crew become acquainted with their galaxy class starship and its capabilities, they travel to a curious city on Deneb IV and also encounter a powerful  being from the Q who, among other things, exhibits a possible power over time itself. —Michael Main
Troi: Captain, sir, this is not an illusion of a dream.
Picard: But these courts belong in the past.
Troi:I don’t understand either, but this is real.
Patrick Stewart (as Captain Jean-Luc Picard) boldly stands on the bridge of the N C C 1 7 0 1 D.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Debatable Time Travel
TV Season

Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

  • by multiple writers and directors
  • (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022)
After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in 2024. —Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
Black-and-white photo of old Patrick Steward (as Jean-Luc Picard) standing in from of old John de Lancie (as Q).
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel