Star Trek Next Generation - Lady Q

[@ubergeek1968]

seeing Q fly backwards and crumple like a rag doll was immensely satisfying

[@OptimusWombat]

"Picard never hit me"! "I'm not Picard."

[@scotthinger6397]

Yes it was!#

[@VTX00128]

He had it coming. Sure arrogance and disrespect won't get him anywhere on this plane of existence. There are rules even he has to follow.

[@James-hs3tu]

Like a Rag Doll. A piece of paper 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NoOne-yh4cl]

​@@OptimusWombatThat's one of my favorite scenes.

[@Aethgeir]

I love the way Picard introduces Q, he's somewhere between propriety and loathing, such a great delivery by Stewart.

[@cdevidal]

“He’s uh… he’s an acquaintance of ours”

[@NormAppleton]

Poor Geordi thinks he will have sex and Q takes it away.

[@insertgoodname4809]

We have known him for...years

[@jerodast]

I had completely forgotten this little scene! I laughed for a good 20 seconds at his stammering. That might be Picard's funniest line in Star Trek 😂😂 (trying to sleep while Data stares at him is even funnier, but that's a whole scene really)

[@alexshank1414]

Q: “Spontaneous combustion of someone you don’t like.” Picard is like “What the hell, Q?!”😂

[@Bobbobbob984]

Looks straight at Picard menacingly

[@boqndimitrov8693]

the moment when Q realized that walls can be solid! 😊

[@DYLAN102001]

Ah Mr. Q. The ability to transport the enterprise across the galaxy but has the social skills of a 5 year old boy.

[@caddan4175]

He's the equivalent of a spoiled child who has never been told no.

[@DYLAN102001]

@@caddan4175 Yes that's the way he was written.

[@ACAB.forcutie]

​@@caddan4175he's an incel.

[@spockmcoyissmart961]

the best line in this episode was when Q said he tested her, Gordie said, 'we all could have been killed!' and Q said, "I was willing to take that chance.''

[@FS2K4Pilot]

Not half as funny as Picard’s expression when he suggested that they should be “civil” around her.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Yeah. With the falling container I didn't think of it but with the Warp Core Breach - I began to suspect that Q was behind it . .

[@imonit4272]

Q is simply savage…

[@Clarence_Oddbody]

I went to college with the guy who wrote the spec script that was used as the premise for this episode, Matthew Corey.

[@Clarence_Oddbody]

@@randomrazr was a nice guy. He transferred out after a year I think, so lost touch for a while. Ran into him again in Wilmington a few years after college and chipped in on a small project he was shooting. He was also trying to get a pilot shot for a cop show with Dusty Rhodes.

[@Omegatonboom]

I will always always laugh when I see Q getting his ass kicked somehow... intellectually from Picard and physically from this girl lol.. It's always freaking hilarious.

[@buckwheat6722]

I like it! Really the first time Q was put in his place! And, the look oh his face!

[@zardos13]

You know after Q was thrown across the room, Picard had to hide a Smirk!

[@ETHRON1]

One of the most gratifying moments in TNG when Q gets bitch slapped (so to speak) by a young lady Q...

[@BuzzSargent]

I never saw these shows. Great seeing Q put in his place ! Happy Trails

[@itzzzsss]

13:12 ".. Amanda he is an a acquaintance of ours, we've known him for (too long)"

[@09rja]

I love the way he says "for years".

[@paulhazelaar7275]

I used to have a crush on Olivia d'Abo, so pretty as a young woman and still as an older lady.

[@asusmctablet9180]

Total cutie, loved her Conan the Destroyer. Then decades later as the evil mastermind on Law & Order Criminal Intent.

[@RubesGoodBrainCoffee]

I'll always know her as Martin Short's love interest in 'Really Weird Tales.'

[@toddrf]

@@asusmctablet9180 when I see her as an adult, I think of Nicole Wallace. The back and forth with her and Goren was great.

[@OptimusWombat]

I forgot that she was the princess in Conan the Destroyer.

[@MountainFisher]

That's right. I noticed that the first time I saw this episode. Olivia d'Abo's just a little older here and I hope her lips are just natural aging and haven't had anything artificial done to them, but they look a little bigger. What do you think? She played the hippie sister in The Wonder Years too.

[@davidsmith385]

She also played a villain in Law and Order Criminal intent.

[@SafetyProMalta]

OSHA would have a field day with the Federation.

[@fallinginthed33p]

The warp containment field is just a step away from failing most days. I'm surprised Geordi has any hair left.

[@wordsofcheresie936]

To be fair, Q caused the warp core malfunction so he was probably bypassing the fail-safes.

[@johncochran8497]

Considering that the Federation hasn't invented seat belts yet, I somehow doubt that OSHA exists.

[@ILikeMyPrivacytbt]

@@johncochran8497 A lot of things were lost on Earth after WW3.

[@fifteenbyfive]

What a wonderful encounter for Picard and Crusher. They both know she needs their guidance and it was awkward to have to deal with Q about it. I think if they had their druthers they'd have kept her from him.

[@KingFireball7]

Gates McFadden's reaction at 3:58 is hilarious 😂

[@OptimusWombat]

What a Qtie

[@darrelstickler]

Chapeau!

[@mr.constitution]

I had a crush on the blonde in this episode when I was a kid lol

[@ragtop63]

Olivia d’Abo

[@MrTmax74]

Oh hell, I did when she I first saw her in Conan

[@johncochran8497]

Well, that last scene shows that she's a good judge of character.

[@Bobbobbob984]

The creep grabbing her arm and her face vibes were probably easy giveaways.

[@mjtunstall1976]

i have seen every episode of this star trek the next generation but i have never seen this episode yet!

[@rocksolid6494]

The most anti-climatic moment was when she asked Dr. Krusher if she could visit her sometime and her response was, "You can visit anytime because you are Q". Didn't that sound loving?

[@stratfordbaby]

Riker flinched as the container fell. Must've been nervous.

[@mattg432]

No, Lady Q first wanted to pull him out of danger zone, but then settled for the less revealing deflection of the container.

[@fallinginthed33p]

Instant promotion to chief engineer.

[@StrangeChickandPuppo]

she could promote herself even

[@PaperclipClips]

Just herself? Heck, she can promote everyone! - “YOU goer a promotion! And YOU get a promotion! And YOU get a promotion! And YOU…”

[@user-hv5jv9gb6c]

The girl from Conan the destroyer Olivia d'Abo. Insanely pretty. I always found it interesting Instead of having her all dolled up they actually seemed to try to have her dolled down.

[@wordsofcheresie936]

Indeed. They appeared to go out of their way to make her unsexy.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Look at how red her face is. You call that Dolled Up? .

[@user-hv5jv9gb6c]

@@BobSmith-dk8nw I said they didn't doll her up.

[@BuccWylde]

The hippie daughter on The Wonder Years.

[@zephyrprime]

Her character is supposed to be a confused and struggling teen - not a sexpot.

[@PaperclipClips]

Huh, strange. Kevin Arnold never never mentioned any of these things about his sister on any of his voice overs during their “wonder years”.

[@Statsy10]

I thought she looked familiar. She's absolutely stunning!

[@sebaszwarc]

@@Statsy10and her sister played in “A View to a Kill”

[@Michael18599]

Q has to intently look up her nose to see her potential

[@jim2lane]

It's humorous to see Geordi ordering everyone out of engineering during a warp core breach. As if running to a different part of the ship would be safe in the event of an explosion 😉

[@enginerdy]

They evacuate everyone before shooting it into space

[@Skank_and_Gutterboy]

I worked in a Navy ship's engine room, it's like giving orders during a steam-line rupture. You're dead before you could even turn to look at what that big noise was.

[@stargazer7644]

They evacuate the area and seal the doors because to eject the core they have to vent the compartment to space. Haven't you watched the series?

[@jim2lane]

@@stargazer7644 - just as he and Data announce that the ejector systems are offline and they're facing a warp core breach. Haven't you watched the episode?

[@stargazer7644]

@@jim2lane Obviously you didn't even watch and understand this clip as the sequence of events is very clear. 1:38 They get a temperature spike in the warp core. 1:42 Geordi tries to slow the matter/anti-matter reaction to stop the temp increase but the injector couplings are not responding to slow the reactor down. 1:45 Temperature increase continues 1:50 Geordi warns the bridge of an impending core breach and that they'd have to vent the hot plasma from the core to try to prevent that. 1:54 Data announces that the plasma inductors are not responding (and therefore they can't vent the plasma) 1:56 Geordi warns they're going to lose containment and orders everyone out of the compartment in preparation for ejecting the core which will vent the compartment to space 2:02 He tells Data they're going to have to eject the core 2:05 They lose containment and the anti-matter escapes and begins to annihilate the core before they can eject it. 2:16 She stops and reverses the warp core breach. Listening comprehension is an important skill.

[@Nabana13]

Who would've thought Kevin Arnold's big sister would grow up to be a Q.

[@sebaszwarc]

Wait does it mean the Arnolds are killed by tornado and only Kevin survived?

[@rickmarr8784]

It's nice to see Q get handle for once.

[@Archie2c]

In the Voyager episodes it would have been a nice call back with her

[@mdhj67]

It's always ionization. All that means is that atoms gain or loose an electron and pickup a charge. If charged atoms can FUBAR a system that converts mass to energy then it's a fragile system indeed.

[@wngimageanddesign9546]

The beautful Ms. D'Abo.

[@Number6_]

She's bewitched. Should get her own show back then.

[@siatelecomsltdLondon]

Q is up to his tricks again...

[@Scorpio_1974]

4:13 She is like little man you do nothing...lol!

[@STho205]

The 80s had such attractive actresses and actors, with flattering styles. What the hell happened?

[@hawkstringfellow]

With there plastic surgery soo sad

[@blam320]

The hell is this supposed to imply, that there are no more attractive actresses?

[@STho205]

@@blam320Yes. Pretty is often not a visual goal anymore...that happened somewhat in the 70s too as bland and drippy was suddenly popular in reaction to super feminine makeup and dress of the 60s. The 1980s was a sudden return... Today the harsh, angry, grunge on the edge of killing somebody or hooker style is popular as was the cleaned up flower child with neutral makeup of the 70s. The new 80s is likely right around the corner. This society is very similar to the 70s of a crumbling world in depression with no purpose but lots of shouting.

[@MrTmax74]

@@STho205 yeah, I think we’re going to see a reversal, and in more than one way. Though not necessarily society wide.

[@sageevgeorge1633]

@@STho205 Totally disagree. You're conflating fashion and makeup of certain decades with the attractiveness of the actresses of those decades. Each decade, including the current one, have at least one insanely attractive actress.

[@henryhallmann4282]

She’s using the force ! Oops - sorry, wrong show .

[@stirlingdavis4179]

Like another favorite show (Married with children)... "And you can't have one without the... other"

[@Algator314]

I really wanted to see her in the Picard series.

[@VTX00128]

Oh that's an idea her and Jack getting along with Q being the butt of the joke.

[@tomsmith5584]

My roommate and I called her "R" when we first saw this episode.

[@sebaszwarc]

This is Amanda, Lady Q is a different character that leather appeared in Voyager episode Q and the Grey

[@-johnny-deep-]

2:26 - "Oops, looks like I gave away my secret!"

[@mitche5007]

ROFL, I just realized "we can use every available hand we can get" on a ship with a crew of 1000 and a capacity of much more than that :) I miss STNG :)

[@onichan9710]

They should have shown Picard with a rather "amused" face.

[@stratfordbaby]

If the core had failed on the opposite side, they would've gone BOOM. Nobody there to block it.

[@OptimusWombat]

Except that Q set things up to happen a specific way.

[@GetFitEatRight]

@@OptimusWombat He wouldn't have killed them, just created another reality and given up on the girl. He's weird like that. Sees humans as his play things.

[@HariSeldon913]

"What if she hadn't been able to stop it and the ship was destroyed?" "Then I'd know she wasn't a Q."

[@jmwoods190]

@@HariSeldon913 That was one very bloody nose!

[@StrangeChickandPuppo]

had she not stopped it he would have probably frozen it mid-splodey and gone, tsk tsk tsk

[@SafetyProMalta]

d'Abo was smoking hot!

[@bobbymoss6160]

So Lady Q has the force. Did Lucas ever sue Star Trek?

[@crystalroseblue6760]

Q got a bit of his own medicine....ha ha ha ha !

[@safebox36]

I know Q is saying he considered exploding Picard. But I prefer to imagine he actually did then wiped everyone's memory.

[@nighthawkvc25a]

3:59 - Is Beverly smiling?

[@GoldenHawke]

Which episode is this?

[@puppylove3781]

"Hahh...Hahh...Q looks like a lady!" - Aerosmith, dude looks like a lady lol

[@bryanbryan2968]

Excuse me … what would Amanda need with a starship … ?

[@jagmarc]

Amazing in the 24th century they went so much length to have a Q on board to deflect falling objects instead of having safety nets

[@pontram]

Lol imagine a spaceship full of safety nets 😏 Besides, I understand Q threw the box off to test her...

[@jagmarc]

@@pontram Me thinks Q had an ulterior motive all along

[@IrishCarney]

What a gorgeous woman. Is that Olivia d'Abo? As a kid I had a crush on her from one of the Conan movies

[@toddrf]

Oh, yes. Conan the Destroyer. Total smokeshow back in the day.

[@IrishCarney]

@@toddrf She could turn gay men straight and straight girls gay

[@awblackstar3421]

So they're not concerned that out of the blue within seconds the entire ship was going to have a catastrophic failure? Win some lose some I suppose.

[@davepowder4020]

Q didn't realize that Lady Q had spent some of her early years with Conan the Barbarian and it had influenced her!

[@draugami]

Does anyone know the name of this episode?

[@redpillfreedom6692]

"True Q" from Season 6

[@pontram]

01:33 "we are presently generating 12.75 Billion Gigawatts..." - that is a lot of power. Very thick conductors are needed 😉

[@stargazer7644]

That's why all the user consoles are made of explodium. Also makes you wonder why equipment on that scale would be measured in gigawatts, instead of 12.75 petawatts. Also, what in the world would they need that much power for idling? They're in orbit, not using the shields, weapons or warp drive. The artificial gravity generators must be terribly inefficient.

[@pontram]

​@@stargazer7644 There maybe just lunchtime and the replicators are demanding that energy for producing hundreds of meals...or Worf is currently playing a WoW real-world simulation with a hundred of other gamers in the holodeck. Or the doctor has many patients and must multiplicate himself (sorry, I know, that's Voyager). Who knows ? It could be needed just for subspace communication during free time by the staff (influencing through the galaxy) ... And I think the authors didn't believe that their audience would understand Petawatts. They even may not have known themselves what Gigawatts are...just simply "impressively much energy".

[@stargazer7644]

@@pontramJust to put it in perspective (in case anyone is wondering), 12.75 billion gigawatts is about 1800 times more than Earth's entire planetwide electricity generation capacity in 2020. At that rate the Enterprise uses more energy in a month than has been generated on the entire Earth since electricity was discovered. They'd have to be destroying more than 122 metric tons of antimatter (and another 122 tons of matter) per day in the warp core to generate that much energy.

[@pontram]

@@stargazer7644 Thanks, I thought it must be more than we currently produce, but not that much more ! And that would be only one (idle) starship of an entire fleet ! Maybe, this is the mysterious "Life support" that is disabled so often when a ship is in trouble...it would finally make sense

[@darrenskjoelsvold]

I remember this one. The Q continuum murdered her parents.

[@enriquezamorano5299]

El poder de las manos ciempre me a intrigado como lo asen notable

[@derekcrymble9085]

Schooled !!!

[@deanwhite7552]

Cut the scene too early, Crusher turns into a dog and she turns the dog back into Crusher

[@Lettuce_Play]

Princess Jehnna from Conan the Destroyer.

[@davidpickens8800]

So, the engine core vents and her hair doesnt even move. Not to mention Geordi doesnt immediately die from the radiation.

[@the_lost_navigator]

you have to think outside the Continuum - The entire breach was contained like a depth-charge exploding under water with the mindpower of a Q able to 'reverse-engineer' the conflagration back to normal by manipulating Time and Space...

[@davidpickens8800]

@carlstannard1 more sticking your head into see the molten core of Chernobyl that's a 1000fold, not a 1000times greater.

[@christopherpericolosi-king4979]

I loved Amanda!!!

[@neiljamison6415]

She sent Q to the far-Q

[@tutekohe1361]

She was previously in Conan the Barbarian.

[@sebaszwarc]

But why Q Continuum put her into Cimmerians realm so long ago?;)

[@jamesmurphy9426]

Who me It wasn't me Don't look at me that way

[@bsimpson6204]

Ooh! She’s cute! 🥰

[@stargazer7644]

She could be your grandmother.

[@rickdjohnson5678]

d'abo luv her

[@NijimaSan]

While John Delancie is a fantastic actor, I’ve never understood the popularity of a character like Q. The desire of the writers/producers to toss a near omnipotent and amoral being into various episodes merely for the sake of “drama” was an annoying and baffling aspect of the series. When Q gets thrown across the room was immensely entertaining/satisfying. The episode where Q loses his powers completely was a character arc that deserved to be explored much longer than it was.

[@YTEdy]

Overpowered characters mostly don't work, but I think John Delancie pulled it off. Q worked as a character.

[@metalore]

But he's not amoral, in fact he's the opposite. A large part of the appeal of Star Trek is that humans can be wise, but still have the potential to evolve into something better. The Q Continuum is a foil to exhibit both. Being satisfied by their suffering is a negative outlook that Star Trek imagines humans such as yourself should discard.

[@matthewhallberg8256]

It works because Q has the powers of a God, but for some reason is really, really preoccupied with how the Starfleet characters regard him. That's what makes it entertaining@@YTEdy

[@YTEdy]

I agree, but I think it also works because John Delancie is so good in the role. He's constantly scolding Picard and everyone, except data, just the humans in top positions. It's funny to watch. @@matthewhallberg8256

[@wngimageanddesign9546]

Recall ST TOS, the episode of Kirk and the Gorn. The dialog at the end between Kirk and the vastly old and advanced race, similar to Q so to speak, reveals the reason why a Q character was introduced. Humanity may think of itself as advanced, but are merely infants in the grand scheme, and must earn their place some day among the universe's giants. TOS had several such episodes to humble the hubris of infant races. How would we behave? Like encountering a bug or bacteria.

[@josephlobosco3647]

Olivia d'Abo was gorgeous! Her parents should have given her braces when she was younger!

[@redrum3405]

She clearly has to get to yoga class. Colorful outfit.

[@stevenhenry5267]

Conan says hello.

[@johnnelson7192]

At 2:03 we're going to have to eject the warp core. HMMMMM

[@robwembley]

Q meets his match !

[@FrontSideBus]

She is gorgeous though...

[@MoxieMike66]

So I'm confused. The Q couldn't let her live, but Kevin , a Dowd, who wiped out all Husnaq w/a thought, they ignored. Doh....

[@sebaszwarc]

And Picard never asked Q about who are the Dowds

[@puensi666]

She’s a Q She could have make it like it never happened 😂

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

But she didn't know that. .

[@puensi666]

@@BobSmith-dk8nw Figure she’d know how, she stopped a warp vote breach.

[@DemonEyes622]

12 billion jigawatts

[@stephenolan5539]

I still think they should have named her Suzi.

[@katelights]

she's cute and all, but I'd take Suzi Plakson every time.

[@RayleighCriterion]

Olivia d'Abo

[@the_lost_navigator]

Q where are you!?! Canada has a Warped-Core breach and we can't shut Trudeau down!!!

[@blam320]

And what exactly has Trudeau done?

[@the_lost_navigator]

@@blam320 You are either rather young or live a very secluded life to ask that question

[@jschreiber6461]

Q’ute!😊

[@necessaryvolitio]

Riker should have hit that.

[@wizrom3046]

Just a couple of decades ago, females were slim, pretty, feminine, tattooless, and spoke with lovely soft voices... 👍 And now we have Lizzo and CardiB ... 😬🤮

[@panan7777]

Lizzo is on the way OUT. Accused of all sorts of things by her choir.....

[@bryanbryan2968]

Although, they are not really here to please us … slim females, you know.

[@wizrom3046]

@@bryanbryan2968 ... you dont read much? The bible says god created the woman to please and serve his main creation; man

[@bryanbryan2968]

@@wizrom3046 Soo … you wrote the Bible?

[@wizrom3046]

@@bryanbryan2968 ... hahaha how did you get to that question from anything I said? One of us is failing this IQ test (hint; it's not me)

[@mic88ed]

Women can't be q's ! Power to the Nerds 🤓.

[@tsmgguy]

Olivia D'abo?

[@evilborg]

yes

[@BookieHeretic]

Where's health and safety at work?

[@kellyrk2007]

Barbie Q

[@Rockhound6165]

Uber sexy Olivia d'Abo. She's in Conan the Destroyer.

[@Wolffen51]

At 2:11 I expected her to say “It’s Morphing Time”

[@VTX00128]

Oh man that takes me back.😅

[@edwardbuckner5031]

This chic is bad luck, no matter where she goes there is a fire that needs to be but out

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

In one episode of this show they said Star Trek wasn'tr military organisation... I said well what are the ranks and weapons for then? That was one brain dead episode. Is there a Granny Q and and a Baby Q hidden away somewhere?

[@blam320]

Clearly you’ve never actually watched Star Trek if you’re asking these kinds of questions.

[@jimmywormholes2053]

QPR

[@pepperVenge]

Spoiler: She dies.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Nope.

[@pepperVenge]

@@Thurgosh_OG Yeah she does. Not before she turns the entire ship into spaghetti.

[@brandoncomer6492]

The irony is that cleaning the air given the appropriate level of technology would be far more reasonable than regulating emissions.. You don't try and plug the millions of micro fracture leaks in a ship to prevent it from taking on water, that would be nearly impossible; you just install a bilge pump. Some writer was letting their progressive sensibilities get in the way of scientific and engineering realities.

[@melissac7081]

Poor analogy. Water pressure is a constant force of nature that existed long before humans tried to defy it with our ships. Pollution emissions are entirely human generated and therefore entirely under human control. That's just reality. If that's "progressive sensibilities", then what's that make the alternative?

[@bryanbryan2968]

But what you fail to realize is that we’re stupid.

[@BigAl53750]

Par for the course these days. WE have people who think they can limit the amount of CO2 spewed forth by volcanos, as well as limit solar flare activity and other celestial characteristics. At least that’s the way they talk.