Déjà Q

[Takara_Soong 4]

Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season: 3

Episode #: 13

Production #: 161

Episode Name: Déjà Q

Original Air Date: 02.05.90

 

Q is delivered to the Enterprise after being stripped of his powers by the Continuum and is forced to live as a mere mortal. When an unknown species attacks the Enterprise, Q's real reason for being there becomes obvious - protection from the many species he had "toyed" with over the years.

 

Corbin Bernsen (Q2) was best known for playing lawyer Arnold Becker on LA Law.

 

Cast:

 

Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes as William Thomas Riker

Brent Spiner as Data

LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge

Michael Dorn as Worf

Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher

Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi

Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher

 

Guest Cast:

 

John de Lancie as Q

Corbin Bernsen as Q2

Richard Cansino as Dr. Garin

Betty Muramoto as Scientist

 

Director: Les Landau

Written By: Richard Danus

 

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[HRH The KING 0]

This episode really served as a "breather" after all the heavier episodes.

 

In fact, it's what I mentioned on my Project For A New Federation Century thread, where I believe Star Trek works best when the general tone is dark and complicated and ever so often you have a lighter episode to break the tone.

 

As a comedic episode, it clearly works. John De Lancie is brilliant and has obvious chemistry with Brent Spiner. The scenes of verbal sparring between Q and the other members of the crew are also excellent. The final scene where Q gets back his powers and has a party on the bridge is hilarious, especially when he caused two beautiful women to appear and they start caressing Riker. He objects, Q flicks his fingers and the two women immediately switch to Worf and start caressing him.

 

B) :P

 

Rating = 4

[Takara_Soong 4]

One of my favourite episodes. The interaction between Data and Q was wonderful. I especially liked the scene in which Q informs Data that he makes a "far better human than I."

 

The comedic aspects to this episode were wonderful as well. From the exchange between Q and Worf when Q asks what he must do to prove he's no longer immortal to Guinan conducting her own "test" regarding that very notion.

 

The ending, when Q has his powers back, is fun to watch. Being the Data fan that I am, it was wonderful to see Data experience his first emotion. I just wish Geordi would have shut up and let Data laugh longer.

[MANVERU 0]

AWESOME EPISODE!!!

 

 

When Data recieved the gift at the end.....

that was just purely awesome!

 

It would have been better if Q had given him the gift of laughter forever.

[youbroughtheryouRiker 2]

5. Maybe my favorite Q episode of all. De Lancie is wonderful again. I was absolutely floored by the scene in Picard's ready room, where Q spills his guts. Geordi flexing his authority muscles in Engineering was a good touch. The humor really was woven well in this one as well. I always enjoy watching this episode. Superb.

[Dabo Queen 0]

Anything with Q in it gets a 5 from me...love, LOVE John DeLancie and his awesome portrayal of Q.

 

 

 

"I'll have ten chocolate sundaes." ~ CLASSIC!

[SeeingEyeBorg 0]

Excellent episode, of course. Q's interaction with the TNG crew has always been his best.

[Charface 0]

Mariachis + the bridge of the Enterprise = win!

[trekz 7]

A great Q episode = 5. Some quotes and trivia from Memory Alpha:

 

Memorable Quotes

"Perhaps there is a... residue of humanity in Q after all."

"Don't bet on it, Picard." - Jean-Luc Picard and Q

 

"Return that moon to its orbit."

"I have no powers! Q, the ordinary!"

"Q, the liar! Q, the misanthrope!"

"Q, the miserable, Q, the desperate! What must I do to convince you people?"

"Die."

"Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?" - Picard, Q, and Worf

 

"What are you looking at?"

"I was considering the possibility that you are telling the truth, that you really are human."

"It's the ghastly truth, Mr. Data. I can now stub my toe with the best of them."

"An irony. It means that you have achieved in disgrace what I have always aspired to be."

- Q and Data Listen to this quotefile info

 

"My God. This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them"

- Q, running into the forcefield of his detention cell

 

"Perspicacity incarnate. Please don't feel compelled to tell me the story of "the boy who cried Worf."

"Computer, activate forcefield." - Q and Worf

 

"Sure, the robot who teaches the course in humanities."

"I am an android, not a robot."

"I beg your pardon." - Q and Data

 

"Easy: Change the gravitational constant of the universe."

"What?"

"Change the gravitational constant of the universe, thereby altering the mass of the asteroid."

"Redefine gravity. And how the hell am I supposed to do that?"

"You just DO it. GAHH! Where's that doctor, anyway?"

"Geordi is attempting to say that changing the gravitational constant of the universe is beyond our capabilities."

"Well, in that case... never mind." - Q, Geordi, and Data

 

"Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients recover quickly... just to get away from you" - Q, to Dr. Beverly Crusher

 

"We know you're behind this, Q!"

"These aren't my colors! And what are you blathering about, Riker?!" - Riker and Q

 

"Romulan!" - Q, to Worf

 

"Help me! Somebody help me!"

"How the mighty have fallen." - Q and Guinan, after the Calamarain attack Q

 

"I'm not good in groups. It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent." - Q

 

"Not bad, Q. Not great, but not bad."

"Q!"

"Ah! Sacrificing yourself for these humans? Do I detect a little selfless act?"

"You flatter me. I was only trying to put an end to a miserable existence."

"Ugh, what a dreadful color!"

"Yeah..." - Q2 and Q

 

"Well, I suppose that is the end of Q."

"Au contraire, mon capitan! He's back!" - Picard and Q

 

"I'm immortal again! I'm omnipotent again!"

"Swell." - Q and Riker, after Q appears on the bridge, and blares a trumpet with a mariachi band

 

"I don't need your fantasy women!"

"Oh, you're so stolid. You weren't like that before the beard!"

- Q and Riker, after Q appears on the bridge and surrounds Riker with scantily-clad females

 

"Q!"

"But I feel like celebrating!"

"I DON'T!"

- Picard and Q, in response to lit cigars and the marachi band

 

"Data, I've decided to give you something very, very special."

"If your intention is to make me human..."

"No, no, no, no, no, no I would never curse you by making you human. Think of it as a going-away present..." - Q and Data

 

"Data, why are you laughing?"

"I do not know. But it was a wonderful... feeling." - Geordi and Data

 

Background Information

John de Lancie considered the bridge scenes of this episode among his hardest to film. His simulated trumpet playing took several takes, and with no way found to fake the scene in which he appears suspended in the nude, he had to do it au naturel. (ST: TNG Companion)

 

The story originally concerned the prospect of a new Klingon-Federation war, caused by Q. In this version, Q only faked his loss of his powers, and later became a hero by preventing the conflict. It was Gene Roddenberry who suggested that the god-like Q should be "cut down to size". (ST: TNG Companion)

 

A Bre'el IV scientist costume was auctioned off in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction. The tag mistakenly states that it was for use of portraying a "Calamarian Scientist". This is an error as the Calamarains were shown as non-corporeal.

[Dabo Queen 0]

Memorable Quotes

 

"Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?"

 

I did a spit take worthy of a Broken Lizard film when Q uttered this line. :)

[GhostofMajorHayes 10]

Imo, anything with Q = 0 ,but since the lowest possbile score here is a 1, I'll settle for rating it at that level.

[DaboGirl 7]

Great Episode a FIVE!

Q with Data (the robot who teaches the course in humanities).

[Odie 0]

That is one my favorite episodes for season 3!

 

My favorite line: "Oh, very clever, Worf. Eat any good books lately?" Q