- For other uses, see Q.
The being known as Q was the son of Q and Q. He was conceived in order to end the hostilities of the Q Civil War, and was midwifed by Doctor Selar. (VOY episode: "The Q and the Grey"; NF - No Limits short story: "'Q'uandary")
Biography[]
Q was the only child of two Q ever produced (with the exception of Amanda Rogers) and, as such, would come to possess power that singlehandedly rivaled that of the entire Continuum. The Continuum permitted such an act out of concern for some approaching threat, eventually discovered to be the encroachment of the Omega Continuum into the multi-verse.
In 2376, Q was learning the total abilities of his powers. He received his first pet, a canine-like creature known as Fluffy/Barkley. His father Q intended to teach is son how to be responsible and the fatality of mortal life. One day his pet accidentally entered a Iconian gateway. Luckily the elder Q ensure that the pet was safe, ending in his son's godmother's care until she brought the pet back to the Continuum. (VOY short story: "In the Queue")
In 2378, Q made himself known to Alexander Rozhenko, Jake Sisko and Nog. Finding kinship with all three's desire to break free of their father's legacy, Q sent them to an alternate reality where they could work through their issues. During the course of the adventure, Q found that his powers had failed, stranding the four. Though initially thinking a heartfelt apology would restore his powers, as it had when he was turned into a human, Q discovered that his powers now manifested through clapping his hands. After returning his friends to the primary universe, Q was summoned before his father, who had truly been pulling the strings, and praised for the empathy he'd shown. (ST - Sons of Star Trek comics: "Issue 1", "Issue 2", "Issue 3", "Issue 4")
That same year, Q came down with a cold that, as with all Q when they became ill, allowed him to see the Observers, a silent race that observed the universe. Q attempted to break into their realm but found himself unable to pass, his father calling him home and assuring his son that a lesson of omnipotence was accepting that some things were out of their control. (ST comic: "What's a Q to You?")
In 2381, Q discovered that the death of his god-mother, Kathryn Janeway was what the Q Continuum referred to as a "fixed point in time." Her death was an event which the multi-verse insisted occur across all universes in which she existed. Q investigated this unique phenomenon and also discovered the baffling fact that there existed a point in the future to which he could not travel -- an impossibility for the Q. Eventually, believing that Kathryn Janeway was the only individual capable of solving the approaching threat (as she once had in an alternate timeline within which it took Voyager 23 years to reach home), he broke the rules of the Continuum against resurrecting the dead by teaching Janeway's spirit how to bring herself back to life with the aid of Kes. The threat to his existence was eventually discovered to be the encroachment of the Omega Continuum into the multi-verse and the threat by Afsarah Eden to wipe the Q species out of existence. After receiving help from Icheb and giving Miral Paris the gift of never again being her people's messiah (as the Q had expected him to be for them), he and Afsarah Eden (his counterpart for the Omega Continuum) sacrificed themselves to seal the rupture between the multi-verse and the Omega Continuum into the multi-verse without having to destroy the Q. In the end, Q's mother forgave Kathryn for her involvement in her son's decision to sacrifice himself, but Q's father, Q, swore that Janeway had made him her enemy that day. (VOY novel: The Eternal Tide)
In 2409, Q reappeared when the USS Copernicus and another Federation starship battled the Borg in the Alini system. (STO mission: "State of Q")
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External link[]
- Q (Junior) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- ↑ ST - Sons of Star Trek comic: "Issue 1".