![]() Star Trek canon has now created an interesting limit on how much Q can appear in canon post- Picard. That means one century after the events of Picard, (roughly 600 years before Discovery Season 4) the Q Continuum, for some reason, will stop checking in on humanity. Discovery’s Season 3 and 4 take place in the 32nd century, which puts Picard and Discovery about 789 years apart. So at some point, Picard will leave the 24th century for the 25th century. Picard Season 1 took place in 2399, meaning, time travel aside, the present-tense of the series will be the years beyond 2399. But, thanks to this throwaway line in Discovery, we now know something about the future of the Q, from the perspective of the Picard timeframe. More recently, Q has cameoed on Lower Decks and is set for a big comeback in Picard Season 2. First introduced in the very first TNG episode ever, “Encounter at Farpoint,” the Q are a race of all-powerful space gods, and yes, they’re all named “Q.” The most famous member of the Q was played by John de Lancie, who appeared in numerous episodes of The Next Generation, Voyager, and one episode of Deep Space Nine. Vance didn’t say “since the Burn,” or “in a century,” he said it’s been 600 years since the Federation heard from anyone in the Q Continuum. ![]() ![]() So, the most interesting detail Vance drops in this list is easily this statement: “The Q Continuum were considered.but there’s been no contact for 600 years.” Q (John de Lancie) in “All Good Things.” CBS/Paramount Because Vance seems to be thinking of the Iconians as viable candidates as creators of the DMA, this could low-key imply that the Iconian backstory of Star Trek Online might be pseudo-canon. Additionally, in the ongoing MMOG Star Trek Online, the Iconians are major antagonists and are revealed to be very active in the 24th and 25th centuries. However, star charts in the first season of Discovery seem to indicate that in the 2250s, Starfleet considered certain areas of space under Iconian influence. Another Iconian Gateway appeared in a DS9 Season 4 Episode 22, but beyond that, the Iconians haven’t really appeared in onscreen canon, because their civilization has been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years before Star Trek gets going. The Iconian Empire - Before he starts talking about the Q Continuum, Vance mentions “The Iconian Empire.” This long-dead organization originates with the TNG episode “Contagion,” in which the Enterprise discovers an “Iconian Gateway,” which basically allows people to move across planets by simply walking through a door. It’s got to be some of the space god-level Star Trek alien species like. Starfleet knows this isn’t the kind of thing the Emerald Chain could have cooked up. So if the DMA was made by someone, the question is, who?Įarly in the episode, Admiral Vance (Oded Fehr) ticks off some options mostly folks in the Star Trek canon who possess the technology (or borderline magic) to manufacture a roving black hole that crushes worlds. Instead, it looks like this sucker was manufactured. The super destructive DMA (Dark Matter Anomaly) is not a naturally occurring spatial phenomenon. Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 5, “The Examples.”įor Discovery Season 4, the biggest revelation in “The Examples” comes fairly early. Here’s how that reference to the Q Continuum in Discover fits into the Star Trek timeline, plus, the details on those other space gods that were mentioned, too. But before that happens, the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, “The Examples,” just gave the Q Continuum a big shout-out, and in doing so may have teased a forthcoming plot development from Picard Season 2. We’re expecting to see John de Lancie’s villain prominently in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard in early 2022. With a snap of his fingers, Q can change the fabric of reality.
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