True Q
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 26 October 1992
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 46192.3
- DIRECTED BY
- Robert Scheerer
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 232
WRITTEN BYWritten by René Echevarria
A bright young intern joins the Enterprise for the summer, but when she displays abilities no human should have, Q arrives with an interest in her future.
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Amanda Rogers, a gifted student, comes aboard the Enterprise as an intern. When she uses impossible powers without understanding them, Q appears and reveals the truth: her parents were members of the Q Continuum who chose to live as humans on Earth. Q has been sent to decide whether Amanda is truly Q, and he hints that a mere hybrid might have to be destroyed. Picard angrily opposes Q's tests, while Amanda is torn between excitement at her powers and fear of losing her human life. Investigating her past, the crew learn that her parents died in an impossible tornado, and Q admits the Continuum killed them because they would not stop using their powers. Amanda is told she may stay human only if she never uses them. When she saves a planet whose atmosphere is failing, she accepts she cannot deny her nature and leaves to join the Continuum.
- 01Olivia d'Abo has said she knew little about Star Trek before taking the role, although she had grown up with the original series.
- 02Q tells Picard that the jury is still out on humanity, a reminder of the trial begun in “Encounter at Farpoint”.
- 03Amanda Rogers returns in tie-in fiction, including Keith R.A. DeCandido's novel Q & A and Kirsten Beyer's Voyager: The Eternal Tide.