If You Want A Good Q Story, Forget Star Trek: Picard and Play Star Trek: Borg Instead
Despite only appearing in 12 out of hundreds of episodes, Q made a huge impact on Star Trek in the '90s. Played with absolute relish by John de Lancie, this godlike extra-dimensional troublemaker loves nothing more than toying with other species—especially humans. Love him or hate him (plenty do), he's one of the most memorable characters in Star Trek history. With a click of his fingers he can alter the fabric of reality, meddle with the space-time continuum, and whisk characters away to other dimensions—or make a mariachi band inexplicably appear on the bridge of the Enterprise. He's unpredictable like that, which makes him a great villain.
I recently wrote about how Star Trek: Picard is garbage, and how the writers somehow managed to make Q, of all people, boring. The fun, mischievous, lovably evil character we delighted in watching torment the crews of the Enterprise, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine is nowhere to be found—replaced by a guy who's just as sad, angry, and one-dimensional as everyone else in the show. It's a wasted opportunity of galactic proportions, and John de Lancie deserves a better comeback. The long-awaited return of Q should have been a landmark moment in the history of the series, but Star Trek: Picard has the uncanny ability to destroy absolutely everything it touches.
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Anyway, to remind myself of when Q was one of the best things about Star Trek, I went back and rewatched a few classic TNG episodes. Encounter at Farpoint, Deja Q, Tapestry, Q Who. All classics, and still hugely entertaining over two decades later. Seeing Picard—the real Picard, that is—butting heads with this sneering, omnipotent asshole is '90s Star Trek at its absolute best. But there's
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