Q's mortality and identity crisis: A once-omnipotent being stripped of power confronts shame, helplessness, and an inward reckoning about compassion, pride, and belonging.
Q's mortality and identity crisis: A once-omnipotent being stripped of power confronts shame, helplessness, and an inward reckoning about compassion, pride, and belonging.
Events in This Arc
Picard authorizes a desperate, full‑power effort to nudge a ferrous rogue moon despite Geordi's technical bleakness: the Enterprise strains engines and tractor emitters beyond safe limits while Worf vectors nearby …
In Picard's ready room Q arrives uncharacteristically somber and confesses that Data's selfless act exposed his own selfishness and newfound terror of mortality. Picard, rigid in principle, refuses to offer …
In the cramped shuttle Q2—an identical, implacable member of the Continuum—materializes to confront Q, confessing he engineered Q's exile and has been watching. When Q2 admits to registering a last‑minute, …