Star Trek Theory: Q's Illness Is Picard's Fault
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 2, Episode 2 — «Penance»
Something is very wrong with Q (John de Lancie) inStar Trek: Picard season 2 and it may be directly connected to Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) himself. Q's meddling in time resulted in a new Star Trek reality where, instead of the United Federation of Planets, the human race founded the Confederation of Earth, which conquered the stars and eradicated alien races like the Klingons, the Cardassians, and even the Borg. Q calls this new reality Picard's «penance» but there's more than meets the eye and there could be a direct link between Picard's dark new world and the ailing omnipotent being.
Q made an unwelcome reappearance in Jean-Luc's life at the end of Star Trek: Picard season 2's premiere, «The Star Gazer.» Before Q popped back into Picard's life, the Starfleet Admiral was tricked by the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) to return to the USS Stargazer, which is now under the command of Captain Cristobal Rios (Santiago Cabrera). With most of Picard's season 1 motley crew now assigned to the Stargazer and the Starfleet armada that assembled to meet the Borg, the Queen beamed onto the Stargazer and assimilated the starship. This was due to the Stargazer being built with Borg technology the Federation harvested from the Borg Cube Artifact left derelict on Soji's (Isa Briones) home planet of Coppelius. The only way to stop the Borg Queen from taking control of Starfleet was for Picard to activate the auto-destruct. But instead of dying, Picard awoke back home at his chateau in La Barre, France, only in a different reality thanks to Q.
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