In “These Outdated Scientists,” Ensign Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome) have been thrown again in time 120 years, and have instantly turn out to be cautious about tainting the timeline. Boimler, to undo some injury he incurred, sneaks aboard a shuttlecraft the place he’s startled by Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome). He exclaims “Holy Q!” and Mariner instantly shushes him. In her regular flip style, she then explains that the individuals on this timeline have not met Q but. “They type of had a Trelane factor occurring.”
Trekkies enacted the “As soon as Upon a Time… In Hollywood” meme. If Trelane is not a Q, the characters inside “Star Trek” not less than acknowledge the similarities. Certainly they’ve made the identical connection theories as followers.
Trekkies, with their instincts towards canonical nitpicking, have lengthy held that Trelane was a Q. On the finish of “The Squire of Gothos,” Trelane’s “dad and mom” appeared to scold him for taking part in too tough together with his human “pets.” Trelane whines like a toddler and vanishes into the ether. His dad and mom — depicted as glimmers of sunshine — apologize to Captain Kirk for his or her kid’s habits. Have been they Qs?
In “Encounter at Farpoint,” Q explains that he’s a member of the Q Continuum, a panoply of ineffable area deities which have existed for an untold period of time. They will do something and know every thing. Q can be fixated on the darker chapters of Earth’s historical past, declaring to Picard that people have a distressing tendency towards warfare and dying. Each Q and Trelane know rather a lot about ways and battles and warfare. Trelane sees such actions as enjoyable hobbies whereas Q makes use of them to sentence humanity. Q places humanity on trial for its crimes, utilizing Picard as the first defendant.