![]() Janeway stops the two beings from going any further, and decides to honor Quinn’s request for asylum. It’s not long before Q shows up, and Quinn proceeds to transport him and Voyager to a number of weird and bizarre hiding spots – the Big Bang, the subatomic world, and as a tiny ornament hanging from a Christmas tree. It’s Adam and EVE, not Atom and… Me! “Ooh, facial art! How very 21st century Souncloud rapper!” ![]() “I apologize for the inconvenience,” he says in that IDGAF manner Q seem to have. Everyone just watches in stunned silence as he proceeds to accidentally disappear all the men on the ship instead of himself. Played with kooky whimsy by the soft-voiced Gerrit Graham, Quinn immediately launches into a grandiose speech (while interrupting himself with his own little asides it’s wacky) containing his Profound Last Words. ![]() Upon learning that Q is aboard Janeway immediately orders red alert before she is popped down to the mess hall where Quinn muses about his imprisonment in the comet, the mortality of the people in the mess hall (especially Kes), and casually drops that his greatest wish is to die(?!). Named Q! It’s not the Q, although he displays a similar flippant attitude (who will be referred to as “Quinn” for clarity). They beam a sample of it aboard and it turns out to be… a dude in a Starfleet uniform. The crew of Voyager is doing some standard exploration of a comet. I came here to Q bubblegum and Q ass and I’m all out of bubblegum.” We meet another individual from the Q Continuum in addition to the familiar Q we know and love(?), and we get a tantalizing first glimpse into said Continuum. It’s the best one, and one of the most entertaining and genuinely fascinating entries in the franchise. “Death Wish” follows suit in that it’s a deeper and more profound usage of the character and is the first of a handful of appearances by Q on Star Trek: Voyager. For the most part, Q was a source of comic relief and irritation for the crew, but in a couple instances his presence provided the sort of profound out-there ideas that Trek is made of. ![]() What set the Q apart was their recurring nature in the show, and in the personal interest/relationship John de Lancie’s Q character had with Picard (and humanity as a whole). In a larger sense, GLBs have been a recurring trope since The Original Series – super powerful, nigh omnipotent beings who toy with our helpless heroes for various petty reasons. The Q (plural) have been a mainstay of Trek since the very beginning of The Next Generation. The sorts of bleeding-edge frontiers the crews of Star Trek occasionally dip into tend to leave the most indelible impressions on me, even if the stories don’t always measure up. ![]() But as a fan of science fiction, my brain has always been tickled by the truly reality-bending ideas, the kind of out-there stuff that leaves your head spinning like a top. A lot of the time that’s fine and it can result in spectacular storytelling. But as much air as Trek gives to the idea of seeking out those bizarre frontiers, much of it can be somewhat rote – bumpy-headed aliens this, kooky spatial anomaly that, not-quite convincing planet sets here, etc. Star Trek was founded on the idea of bold exploration of strange new places – even non fans can recite the franchise’s famous motto. Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 18 ***Content Warning: Discussion of suicide*** ![]()
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