First Season - Episode 010

HIDE AND Q

Stardate: 41590.5 - 41591.4
Rating: 10 Humour: + Action: + Tension: ++ Romance: -

Alternate Titles: German: "RIKERS VERSUCHUNG"

Teleplay By: Holland, C.J.
Roddenberry, Gene
Story By: Holland, C.J.
Director: Bole, Cliff
Music: McCarthy, Dennis
Executive: Roddenberry, Gene
Supervisor: Berman, Rick
Justman, Robert H.
Producer: Hurley, Maurice
Co-Producer: Lewin, Robert
Wright, Herbert
Camera: Brown, Edward R.

Cast

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Cmd. William T. Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Lt. Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Cheryl Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Lt.Cmd. Data: Brent Spiner
Lt. Natasha Yar: Denise Crosby
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
Q: John de Lancie
Sigman Survivor: Elaine Nalee
Adult Wesley Crusher: William A. Wallace

Plot

Again, the control of the Enterprise is seized by the mysterious alien known as Q. This time, Q transports the entire bridge crew except Picard to a desolate planet and forces them to play a deadly game. The game's true purpose is to test Riker to see if he is worthy of receiving the power of the "Q."

Goofs

  • Shortly after Riker and the bridge crew are teleported to the planet by Q, Data's rank insignia are wrong. He's suddenly a LtJG for about three minutes.

Quotes

Q: "Oh, your species is always suffering and dying."

Picard: "No. Lieutenant Worf, you will make no move against him unless I order it."
Q: "Pity, you might have learned an interesting lesson Macrohead, with a microbrain."

Yar: "What in the hell am I doing, crying? It is so frustrating to be controlled like this."
Picard: "Don't worry, there's a new ship's standing order on the bridge. When one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted."

Q: "Will you stop interrupting me? I mean, this is hardly a time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe."

Q: "Let us pray for understanding and for compassion."
Picard: "Let us do no such damn thing."

LaForge: "Worf, is this your idea of sex?"
Worf: "This is sex, but I have no place for it in my life now."
Q: "No place Microbrain? What possesses you?"

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