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Trelane was a member of the Q Continuum who the crew of the USS Enterprise encountered in 2267. Trelane harassed the crew of the Enterprise before he was found by his parents and taken home. At the time Trelane was fascinated with 18th century French culture. (TOS episode & Star Trek 11 novelization: The Squire of Gothos)
Trelane later escaped from his parents again. The Enterprise again encountered Trelane in 2269 while investigating the disappearance of several vessels. During their second encounter, Trelane had became fascinated with the First World War. Trelane attacked the Enterprise with a space vessel made to resemble an early biplane. Kirk and the Enterprise crew were able to defeat the biplane, but Trelane then subjected several Starfleet officers to a simulation of a period German village. Kirk was again able to disrupt Trelane's power, and Trelane's nanny discovered him and took him away. (TOS video game: Judgment Rites)
- Alternatively, the player could have Kirk talk Trelane into taking him to a simulation of a real World War I battlefield, rather than the romanticized version Trelane had created. After Kirk tries to convince Trelane that there's nothing romantic about war, Trelane loses interest in holding the Enterprise or the other ships, and allows them to leave.
Years later, Trelane would appear again. Kirk would tell Trelane he had no interest in any more of Trelane's war games. However, Trelane revealed he was interested in -romantic- conquests now, which Kirk was quite familiar with. Effectively holding the Enterprise hostage and giving Kirk a brief but first hand reminder of Gothos' deadly atmosphere, Kirk was first made to try and charm a random woman at a bar (and nearly getting killed because the woman was already taken). [citation needed]
Trelane also subjected Kirk to a hallucination of the Enterprise crew (in particular Spock) into trying to kill Kirk in an attempt to appease Trelane's threats. [citation needed]
Taking a unintended hint from Kirk Trelane switched tactics and instead made Kirk reunited with an old flame of his, but Kirk refused to follow through purely for Trelane's amusement. Punching Trelane in the fact and knocking him down, Kirk called him 'a boy in a man's body.' [citation needed]
Trelane chastised Kirk for thinking Kirk was the only one to have aged in the years since their last encounter.
Kirk having had enough of Trelane's games set the Enterprise for auto-destruct, Spock figuring the explosion would be enough to kill even Trelane. Trelane in a tantrum destroys the part of the ship's computer responsible for the self-destruct declaring no one would destroy the Enterprise but him. Trelane reveals all he wanted was Kirk's advice and example on how to handle the ladies. [citation needed]
A good deal of this turned out to be delaying tactics on part of the crew, having noticed Trelane having repeatedly moved the ship when a powerful energy signature neared. The signature turns out to be a female of Trelane's species. Kirk is almost amused at Trelane's cowering at her presence. Kirk tells them both to leave his ship at once, and the female is more than willing to comply with this, dragging off Trelane eagerly and happily as Trelane begs Kirk for help. McCoy finds it interesting that coming from a race as advance as them "they wanted advice on the birds and the bees." Spock noted that the more advance the civilization, the more arrogant it's youth. [citation needed]
In the 24th century, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D encountered Trelane, and finally learned that he was a member of the Q Continuum. Working with Q, they managed to keep Trelane from merging all the different universes into a single universe. Q also let slip to CaptainJean-Luc Picard that Trelane may have been his own illegitimate son. (TNG novel: Q-Squared)
Appearance and references
- Referenced only
External links
- Trelane article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Trelane article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.