Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Simply Dropped a Main Connection to The Subsequent Era

The factor is, many followers have typically speculated that Trelane and his dad and mom had been truly members of the Q Continuum. After all, the idea of Q wasn’t launched till The Subsequent Era’s pilot episode, “Encounter at Farpoint,” which aired some 20 years after “The Squire of Gothos.” It was there that John de Lancie first performed the pesky frenemy of Captain Picard, but it surely did at all times make a kind of sense that Trelane and Q could possibly be associated, since they shared a number of traits – amongst them, near-omnipotence, a capability for annoying anybody they’re round, and a aptitude for dressing up in interval costumes.

Which takes us to “Like Chronitons By means of the Hourglass,” the place we see Trelane basically finishing a faculty venture (of which Captain Pike and his crew are the topics). A “Proctor” (performed by Diane L. Johnstone) exhibits up all through the episode to evaluate Trelane’s efficiency (she provides him a “strong B-” ultimately), and wouldn’t you already know it? She’s wearing a fancy dress that’s similar to the “decide” outfit Q wore in “Encounter at Farpoint.”

Absolutely that is the ultimate non-admission admission from the present’s writers that Trelane is definitively a Q. What extra do we have to simply settle for this as truth and add it to the Memory Alpha database as soon as and for all? In spite of everything, again in “Marriage ceremony Bell Blues,” de Lancie offered the voice of Trelane’s non-corporeal father, even when he was not known as Q onscreen. (The late author Peter David additionally wrote a 1994 Trek novel known as Q-Squared that positioned Trelane as a member of the Continuum, even when that was by no means thought-about canon.)

So this all cute and enjoyable, however would any nerdy dialogue of this nature be value its weight in pocket protectors if we didn’t additionally poke a gap in the entire thing? As a result of actually… it’s not like that decide costume is a standard-issue Q Continuum wardrobe merchandise. De Lancie’s Q wears the outfit in “Encounter at Farpoint” when he transports Picard and different members of his bridge crew to a recreation of “the post-atomic horror” of the mid-Twenty first century. Principally, in that sequence, Q is dressed up like a decide from that point particular interval, so the Proctor sporting a model of the identical outfit signifies that… she determined to decorate up as a decide from the mid-Twenty first century when grading Trelane’s venture? For some cause?

Eh, let’s simply go along with it.