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Star Trek: The not quite omnipotent Q

Published 1. April 2022 by Theresa Thunig
Star Trek: The not quite omnipotent Q
Spoiler-Alert!

This article contains mild spoilers for almost all Star Trek episodes in which Q appears. These include: "Encounter at Farpoint" (TNG S01E01 and E02), "Hide and Q" (TNG S01E10), "Déjà Q" (TNG S03E13), "Tapestry" (TNG S06E15), "Death Wish" (VOY S02E18), "The Q and the Grey" (VOY S03E11) and "Q2" (VOY S07E19).

Q may be popular with the viewers of the late 20th and early 21st century, but for Jean-Luc Picard and Catherine Janeway and everyone on board the Enterprise and Voyager, he is more of a nuisance - and a very dangerous one at that. Q loves chaos and very rarely reveals his intentions, but that's not even the main problem: Q possesses an extraordinary power that makes him seem almost like a god. But in the end, even he is not omnipotent, as already mentioned in the article "Star Trek: How the encounter at Farpoint changed the fate of humankind". At this point, however, I would like to go into this in more detail.

Sometimes a feeling is all we have

Published 9. March 2022 by Theresa Thunig
Sometimes a feeling is all we have
Spoiler-Alert!

This post contains spoilers for the episode "A Taste Of Armageddon" of the series "Star Trek: The Original Series" (TOS S01E23).

It always seems amazing how people in the past - when popular science fiction was still in its infancy, so to speak - thought of humanity's relationship to technology in the future. Sometimes we are dominated by it, it itself becomes our greatest enemy, and sometimes it is an instrument that serves our own progress. The hopes and fears reflected in it are almost as numerous as the stars in our sky. This ambivalence is expressed in a strikingly witty way in the series "Star Trek: The Original Series", if nothing else.

Star Trek: How the encounter at Farpoint changed the fate of humankind

Published 13. December 2021 by Theresa Thunig
Star Trek: How the encounter at Farpoint changed the fate of humankind
Spoiler-Alert!

This article contains heavy spoilers for the first episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint", and light spoilers for the continuation of the series.

The universe, infinite expanses - Star Trek has always meant one thing to me above all: longing for a future that is better than what we are currently experiencing on earth. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the still-evolving franchise, managed to capture the longing for peace in images. Being the humanist that he was, he created a universe in which people have left the problems of the present behind, in which no child has to starve or flee from war anymore. Earth becomes a utopia.