this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
11 points (100.0% liked)

Star Trek Social Club

12371 readers
28 users here now

r/startrek: The Next Generation

Star Trek news and discussion. No slash fic...

Maybe a little slash fic.

New to Star Trek and wondering where to start?

Rules

1 Be constructiveAll posts/comments must be thoughtful and balanced.

2 Be welcomingIt is important that everyone from newbies to OG Trekkers feel welcome, no matter their gender, sexual orientation, religion or race.

3 Be truthfulAll posts/comments must be factually accurate and verifiable. We are not a place for gossip, rumors, or manipulative or misleading content.

4 Be niceIf a polite way cannot be found to phrase what it is you want to say, don't say anything at all. Insulting or disparaging remarks about any human being are expressly not allowed.

5 SpoilersUtilize the spoiler system for any and all spoilers relating to the most recently-aired episode. There is no formal spoiler protection for episodes/films after they have been available for approximately one week.

6 Keep on-topicAll submissions must be directly about the Star Trek franchise (the shows, movies, books, etc.). Off-topic discussions are welcome at c/Quarks.

7 MetaQuestions and concerns about moderator actions should be brought forward via DM.

Upcoming Episodes

Date Episode Title
07-17 SNW 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II"
07-17 SNW 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues"
07-24 SNW 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori"
07-31 SNW 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour"
08-07 SNW 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time"

Episode Discussion Archive

In Production

Strange New Worlds (2025-07-17)

Starfleet Academy (TBA)

In Development

Untitled theatrical film

Untitled comedy series

Wondering where to stream a series? Check here.

Allied Discord Server

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website
USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website
OpticalData@startrek.website
11
Who had it worse? (startrek.website)
submitted 7 hours ago by hopesdead@startrek.website to c/startrek@startrek.website
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

We know Q was obsessed with Picard, but Janeway was propositioned for having Q’s kid. Who had it worse?

top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

From a real-world perspective as a viewer, I think Q was created and written as a foil for Picard, the actors had awesome chemistry, and their TNG stories generally worked really well. On the other hand, as much as I really love Voyager, Q seemed awkwardly shoehorned into it for the sake of doing Q stuff and it really shows. The chemistry with the characters and actors is lacking, the fundamentals of the stories feel way off, and it all just doesn't work as well.

While I generally rank TNG's Q episodes near the top of that series, I tend to put VOY's Q episodes near the bottom.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Q is just a dick. He could've brought Voyager back home but didn't and then involved Janeway in that continuufederacy civil war. He exposed Picard and crew to the Borgs and didn't lift a finger when he got Locutussed. I think in terms of dead people he may have screwed Picard over more. I may be wrong but I think more people died in that cross section being cut out by the Borgs as a direct result of Q finger snapping the D out to meet them. But at the core, he just does stuff because he's a bored omnipotent dick and he makes everyone in his path suffer.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Counter argument on the Borg encounter: By accelerating the Federation encounter with the Borg, he likely prevented more suffering than had he not intervened, as it would have led to an unaware Federation not being prepared for Wolf 359. Yes, the Federation survived that just by the skin of their teeth, but they survived.

[–] Lupus@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Isn't that even argued in the episode? Like Q wanted to humble Picard when he doesn't want to accept him onto the Enterprise as a crew member and Picard criticizes his interference. Then Q says something like "You are not prepared for what awaits you". Indicating that he has other motives than his usual tricksterdom.

Q has always had a certain curiosity for humanity and his actions are always layered but in this instance I think the layers are only.hiding his intent on helping humanity/Starfleet prepare for threats bigger.than anything they have ever encountered.

And later he says something like "If you can't handle a bloody nose you should go home and hide under your bed" meaning something like "if you're out here you have to be prepared to face threats and horrors unimaginable to man."

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

At least Picard wasn't impregnated.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Only Trip gets that privilege.