Q Was “In Love With Picard”, Says Star Trek: TNG Writer

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Summary

Star Trek : The Next Generationwriter Ronald D. Moore says that John de Lancie ’s Q was"in love with"Captain Jean - Lic Picard ( Patrick Stewart),and that ’s one of the reasons why their relationship worked so well . Captain Picard command the USS Enterprise - D for seven season onTNG , and Q render up about once per season to counteract his favorite captain . John de Lancie and Patrick Stewart played off of one another brightly , and Q quickly became one ofStar Trek ’s best recurring characters . With his god - like powers , Q often did more harm than good , but he also helped Picard through some ruffianly maculation .

Q also made appearances onStar Trek : Deep Space NineandStar Trek : Voyager , but hisQ ’s interactions with Commander Benjamin Sisko(Avery Brooks ) and Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) never had quite the same spark as his fundamental interaction with Captain Picard . Ronald D. Moore spoke about Q and Picard ’s unique relationshipin the companion Quran to the documentary serial publication of the same name , The Center Seat - 55 Years of Trekby Peter Holmstrom . Read his quotation mark below :

Internally , what we said all the sentence was Q is in love with Picard . That was the key of the kinship . He ’s in dear with him . He just is . He love Picard . It ’s a peculiar relationship with this one human in this omnipotent being that ’s flaky , but that ’s really what ’s at the heart of it . Which is why , in my opinion , when they tried to translate him to Deep Space Nine and have a relationship with Sisko , it did n’t play because it did n’t , absent that element . Then Q just became a weird cut-up that show up willy-nilly , just to kind of screw with people . But with Picard , that was something personal . He had a personal relationship with this man , testing him , challenging him , protect him . It was like a whole dissimilar kind of matter . And it just did n’t work with anybody else .

John de Lancie ’s god - like Q became one of Star Trek ’s most popular recurring characters , and here are all of his appearing ranked worst to best .

Q Took An Interest In Jean-Luc’s Son Jack Crusher In Star Trek: Picard Season 3

Will Q and Jack Crusher’s story ever continue?

Q returned inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 , in which he sent Jean - Luc and his friend to an substitute totalistic variation of the hereafter . Picard and his bunch then had to travel back into the past and fix the events Q had altered before they could render to their own timeline . Along the way , Q helped Picard forge through some of his childhood trauma before the god - alike cheat reveal that he was die . Although Q had antecedently believed himself to be immortal and unchanging , he seemingly fail after a dear hug from his champion , Jean - Luc . DespiteQ ’s apparent death , he made another return in a post - credits scene at the closing ofPicardseason 3 .

The coda ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3 put up the perfect apparatus for a spin - off , but the long - rumoredStar Trek : Legacyseems to be a recollective pellet at this point .

After Jean - Luc and the reunite crew of the Enterprise - D keep the galaxy yet again , Jack Crusher ( Ed Speleers ) decided to pursue in his parent ' footsteps and join Starfleet . As the Word of Jean - Luc Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden),Jack will doubtless play a role in the future of the Federation , and Q wants to be there to see it . In his brief visit , Q stated that while Jean - Luc ’s tryout may have been over , Jack ’s has only just commence . Captain Picard and Q had a complicated relationship onStar Trek : The Next Generationand it remains to be take in whetherStar Trekwill continue the chronicle of the Picards and the omnipotent trickster .