#true q

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I just rewatched True Q, enjoy some Picard and Q

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amanda Q(tie) 🩷

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'Temperature increase is at one hundred six percent and rising.' - data

'La Forge to Bridge! We're looking at a core breach! We're going to have to try and vent the plasma!' - laforge

'Plasma inductors are not responding.' - data

'We're going to lose containment. All right, everybody out of here now. Let's go! Let's move it! Data, bring down the isolation door. We're going to have to eject the warp core.' - laforge

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry [true q, s6ep6]

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Mood

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Episode 120: Coming of Age

TNG: "True Q" and "Rascals"

Season six of TNG continues its trend of "meh" this week. First up: a young woman with big dreams for her future finds there is more to her late parents – and herself – than anyone realized in "True Q". After that, the most ill-conceived transporter technobabble yet turns four Enterprise crew into children who then have to save the ship from...really?...the Ferengi in "Rascals". Lord.

Also this week: a boisterous intro, Trek dogs, and repeat Ferengi.

Timestamps: synopses: 1:30; True Q: 7:45; Rascals: 37:38

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PAUSING ON TRUE Q

I watched True Q tonight, and I think it's interesting that Picard is really calm throughout pretty much the whole episode.

He talks calmly to Q, proceeds to go about his normal captain duties, works with Data in the investigation of Amanda's parents' death, all while knowing that Q is roaming around his ship free as a bird with Amanda, hanging about Beverly's medical lab, causing warp core breaches, etc.

You aren't at least a little bit worried, Picard?

Picard also seems far more collaborative with Q, especially in the "Pals" scene. Why?

Perhaps Picard can tell that Q's focus is not on him, but on poor Amanda?

I also like how Picard is wearing his traditional uniform in the scene when Amanda throws Q across the room, and in the immediate following scene in the Ready Room (Where Q is looking mighty embarrassed, "She's a little spitfire, isn't she?", etc) Picard is wearing his black-shouldered captain's jacket and blue shirt.

A meaningless costume change mistake for the production team, but from a narrative standpoint, it makes me ask, "What did Q and Picard do between the Amanda Q throwing scene and the Ready Room conversation scene?

Did Q sulk somewhere to lick his wounds while Picard went to bed, and they met in Picard's Ready Room the next morning?

Q looked very embarrassed in Picard's Ready Room, twisting his uniform collar, which is a behavioral reaction to something that just happened, like minutes ago.

Sooooo, why did Picard change his clothes?

Again, obviously it's a continuity blooper ☹️, but from a Qcard perspective, maybe Picard finally got to show Q the "compassion" that Q thought he'd get from Picard in Deja Q.

(Jean-Luc, my back hurts bc Amanda threw me against the wall and I hit the vase. Can you...soothe me? In private? In your quarters? Horizontally?)

Dear Trek Team,

Be careful about your little oversights, like costume changes and timings. You could be inadvertently adding to Qcard --unless you meant it that way....

,which you actually do 99% of the time.