Star Trek: What Is Q?
The Star Trek universe contains a litany of (literally) otherworldly beings, from battle-hardened Klingons to telepathic Betazoids, all through the various generations of audiences' favorite sci-fi tv show. Of all these fantastical races and cultures masterfully fleshed out by the show's creators, one of the most memorable aboard the starships has to be the Q. This being makes an appearance in the very first episode of The Next Generation, as well as Voyager, Deep Space 9, and Lower Decks, and is excitingly featured in the latest Picard season 2 trailer.
To understand the Q, it’s important to get confusing terminology out of the way. The Q are a godlike race of highly advanced beings with power over time, space, and the fabric of reality itself, with the ability to alter it to their whim. They exist within the Q continuum, an extradimensional plane of existence. Q is also, confusingly, the name of each individual being within the Q continuum, the most notable Q being played by the enigmatically playful John de Lancie, but other actors have played other Q's over the course of the franchise. The reasoning behind this is that they are beings of such power they have transcended physical form and language. They exist as pure energy in a form unrecognizable or even comprehensible by less advanced beings such as humans — they are simply Q.
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De Lacie’s Q is the most recognizable throughout Star Trek, but he is by no means the only Q to appear in the shows. More interestingly, these other Q’s are nothing like the Q most shown to audiences throughout old and new series. De Lacie's character is shown as a trickster intent on playing with, sometime tormenting, other races.
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