While working to save the
planet Tagra IV from environmental collapse due to
pollution, the crew welcomes Amanda, a young honor
student chosen from hundreds of applicants to serve
aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The crew is immediately
taken with the young woman's boundless enthusiasm.
However, Amanda also has a secret she keeps hidden from
her new teammates. She possesses extraordinary mental
powers, including the ability to make objects appear
simply by visualizing them. She manages to keep this
power under wraps until she witnesses a potentially
devastating explosion in Engineering. With the
destruction of the ship imminent, Amanda summons her
powers and stops the explosion while the shocked crew
looks on.
When the senior staff meets to discuss this turn of
events, a surprise visitor arrives to clarify things for
them. Q appears out of nowhere in the middle of the
meeting with the announcement that Amanda is a Q. He
tells the crew that he created the explosion to test the
young woman's powers, and, now that he is convinced, he
has come to bring her back to the Q Continuum and save
her from life as a lowly human. Picard, however, feels
that Amanda should make her own decision, and Q
reluctantly agrees. Once the two part, Picard secretly
orders an investigation into the death of Amanda's
natural parents, who were killed in an accident when she
was an infant. Despite their agreement, he doesn't trust
Q.
Q visits Amanda in her
quarters, hoping to tempt her by showing her the range
of her limitless powers. Amanda is only interested in
seeing her real parents. With Q's help, she visualizes
the couple, and they materialize in front of her. The
feeling is intoxicating, and suddenly, Amanda is
beginning to like being a Q. Confused, she shares her
feelings with Beverly, who is unable to offer any real
advice. However, when she uses her powers to complete an
experiment she was performing for the doctor, Beverly is
displeased and chastises Q. In response, he briefly
turns Dr. Crusher into a yapping dog.
Amanda can't help
being amused by the trick, and begins to test her powers
further by playing a game of teleportation hide and seek
with her new mentor. Amanda teleports Riker, whom she
has a crush on, into her romantic fantasy, but she is
disappointed by the artificiality of the result.
Meanwhile, Data discovers that the tornado that killed
Amanda's parents was very unusual. Picard confronts Q
with the information, and he admits that the couple were
executed by the Q Continuum — and that he has come to
the Enterprise to decide whether Amanda will be executed
as well.
Picard and the crew
decide to fill Amanda in on this disturbing information.
Furious, the young woman summons Q and demands to know
what right he has to eliminate others. Picard deftly
reminds Q of his supposed moral superiority, but Q
lightly replies that he has decided not to kill Amanda
anyway. Instead, he offers her a choice. She can either
accompany him to the Q Continuum, or continue to live as
a human — if she will promise not to use her Q powers.
Amanda immediately decides to stay aboard the Enterprise
with her new friends. At that moment, however, the group
is alerted to an emergency — the planet Tagra IV is in
immediate danger of destruction. Realizing that
thousands of people will die, Amanda summons her powers
and saves the planet, turning it from a polluted
no-man's land back to a lush, green world. The event
forces her to live up to the fact that she is a Q, and
she sadly leaves the ship to start her new life. |
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Production: 232
Season: 6 Episode: 6
Air Date: 10.26.1992
Stardate: 46192.3 |
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Patrick Stewart as
Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as William Riker
Brent Spiner as Data
LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Worf
Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi |
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John de Lancie as Q
Olivia d'Abo as Amanda Rogers
John P. Connolly as Lote |
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| Two characters on the show
were named after real people: The alien "Q" was named
for Janet Quarton, a British fan; and Geordi La Forge
was named after another Trek fan, George La Forge, who
was confined to a wheelchair.
Picard rose to his rank when
his commanding officer aboard the USS Stargazer was
killed in battle. |
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"True Q"
#40276-232
Written by
Rene Echevarria
Directed by
Robert Scheerer
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FINAL DRAFT
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - "True Q"- 09/04/92 - CAST
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"True Q"
CAST
PICARD Q
RIKER AMANDA ROGERS
DATA ORN LOTE
BEVERLY
TROI
WORF
GEORDI
NURSE'S COM VOICE
Non-Speaking Non-Speaking
SUPERNUMERARIES AMANDA'S PARENTS
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - "True Q" - 09/04/92 - SETS
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
"True Q"
SETS
INTERIORS EXTERIORS
USS ENTERPRISE USS ENTERPRISE
MAIN BRIDGE
ENGINEERING TAGRA
TEN FORWARD
READY ROOM
SHUTTLEBAY TWO
OBS. LOUNGE
MEDICAL LAB
CORRIDOR
GAZEBO
AMANDA'S QUARTERS
TAGRAN CONTROL ROOM
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