Episode of the Week : The Squire of Gothos

[LMFAOschwarz]

. . . I just wish that Trelane didn't have to be retroactively made "Q" because, for one thing, Q doesn't have to be the whole of STAR TREK ... you know?

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In the Peter David novel Q-Squared, Trelane is revealed to be a member of the Q Continuum, with Q being assigned as his mentor.

Trek novels are non-canon. Trelane doesn't have to be a member of the Q if you don't want him to be.

Agreed. Just ignore that stuff!

 

[Silvercrest]

Blasphemy! You're lucky he doesn't cast you out, or smite you, or something.

 

[2takesfrakes]

If I come across a copy of "Q-Squared," I will use it for kindling ... or to prop something up with, like a chair with a short leg ... or perhaps, even to wrap small pieces of garbage!

 

[Melakon]

Wow, poll already closed. That's what happens around here when you stay off line for just one week. Anyway, a 7.

One little question I have, is after the landing party is beamed up, Kirk orders the ship to warp, and the group leaves the transporter room. For some reason Spock walks over to the transporter console and hits a single switch, then leaves. What was that all about?

Either Kirk forgot to turn off the companel, or it's the Enterprise's version of a timeclock.

 

[Grant]

Leslie is damn fast. He is in the transporter room when they beam up and when they reach the bridge---he is in the Captain's chair!

He did that whole Quicksilver thing racing up those ladders and beat Kirk to the bridge.

But this power failed him when the vampire cloud attacked him.

 

[Push The Button]

Leslie is damn fast. He is in the transporter room when they beam up and when they reach the bridge---he is in the Captain's chair!

He did that whole Quicksilver thing racing up those ladders and beat Kirk to the bridge.

But this power failed him when the vampire cloud attacked him.

As far as coming back from the dead is concerned, Leslie had Spock beat by about 15 years.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Leslie is damn fast. He is in the transporter room when they beam up and when they reach the bridge---he is in the Captain's chair!

Maybe he beamed himself to the bridge.

And while we're at it, given the transporter's capabilities, when Kirk is beamed up he should be materialized on the bridge instead of having to walk there.

 

[scotpens]

. . . And while we're at it, given the transporter's capabilities, when Kirk is beamed up he should be materialized on the bridge instead of having to walk there.

Federation technology didn't have that capability until the era of TNG. But you knew that, right?

 

[Melakon]

Leslie is damn fast. He is in the transporter room when they beam up and when they reach the bridge---he is in the Captain's chair!

Maybe he beamed himself to the bridge.

He's lucky he didn't beam himself into a bulkhead.

 

[Silvercrest]

. . . And while we're at it, given the transporter's capabilities, when Kirk is beamed up he should be materialized on the bridge instead of having to walk there.

Federation technology didn't have that capability until the era of TNG. But you knew that, right?

Naah, they had that capability. It's just that McCoy wanted Kirk to get some exercise, so he cooked up that excuse with the transporter crew.

 

[Armored Saint]

For a good non-canon thing with Trelane, there's a level in Star Trek Judgment Rites where he's now fan of the WW1. :P Sadly, I only played to the non-voice version.

 

[Timo]

The continuity glitch has to be mentioned with this one: Trelane was supposedly recreating Earth culture as he saw it, 900 years ago due to the 900-light-year distance. Yet he made reference to Napoleon, who would have been only 4 or 5 centuries ago.

Of course, this episode was produced before they decided the show actually took place in the 23rd Century, rather than the 28th.

I brought this up a while back, and was pummeled with tomatoes for it. It's possible I've overlooked something...but upon consideration, I still maintain that the implication was, yes, Trelane was 900 light-years from Earth.

...But, it should be recalled, on a very mobile planet!

There's no telling where he was last week when he developed this interest in Napoleonic times.

As for him being a Q kid wearing that mirror like ugly braces, yeah, since I can ignore it, I will. But Judgment Rites was cool, and seeing Trelane again was great.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Grant]

So Leslie was the first to try "intra-ship beaming"---beating Kirk by nearly 2 years (Day of the Dove)

Leslie was brought back to life using his DNA and the transporter beating Pulaski by over a hundred years.