Is it canon that God is at the center of the galaxy? Also...

[varek]

I don't think Gene Roddenberry envisioned having God at the center of his Star Trek universe. ST has suggested the existence, though, of several almost-omniscient races.

Personally, I believe God is the Creator and Ruler of the multidimensional universe. But, of course, my beliefs are not Star Trek "canon."

 

[HIjol]

Yea, verily and did Gene ascend to the Center, with Hari of Seldon and Robert of the Heinlein, and Lawrence the Niven and also Saint Issac...

...and Carl did greet them, saying, Behold the Billions and Billions...!!!

...and it was good...

 

[xavier]

I thought Q was the god of the trek universe?

 

[HIjol]

I thought Q was the god of the trek universe?

...and there was Blasphemy and much rending of garments and Xavier was called to answer...The Prince of Mischief and Mayhem "Q", known for his Villainous and Calamitous acts, was, indeed, the devil incarnate of the Trekverse...Lo, The Nefarious One...

 

[Cyke101]

I thought Q was the god of the trek universe?

Which brings us to one of my favorite quotes in all of Trek:

"I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you; the universe is not so badly designed."
--Picard to Q

 

[JarodRussell]

Picard was a Creationist.

 

[LordMudd]

I read in A History of Orgies that in the 12th century there was a sect of flagellists in northern France known as Picard.

CCC.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Chant this then:

NCC1701D...Captain wants his Earl Grey tea...

<<BONK!!>>

NCC1701D...Captain wants his Earl Grey tea...

<<BONK!!>>
(Repeat until unconscious.)

 

[HIjol]

Herbert!...Herbert!...Herbert!...

 

[Galileo7]

"What does God need with a starship?"

-Definitely canon

Great line, soon after followed by McCoy's thoughts on the Almighty.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's canon that there's a planet at the centre of the galaxy, surrounded by the "great barrier" and which held a malevolent floating head monster thing. It wasn't actually meant to be "God"

And the Enterprise got from Earth to there in no time at all.

 

[Vandervecken]

Korob and Sylvia in "Catspaw" came from another galaxy.

Larry sends the ship outside the galaxy in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?"

The Caretaker and Suspiria are also originally extragalactic. Not sure if fluidic space counts as "extragalactic" in the traditional sense, but if it does you can add Species 8472.

While we have no evidence of it, I've always thought, given their transwarp capability, that it's likely the Borg have gone to other galaxies.

I do think it's funny that Picard, of all people, imputes a design to the universe.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Herbert!...Herbert!...Herbert!...

I always wondered why those space hippies kept saying that. Who the hell was Herbert, anyway? Maybe they picked it just because it sounded bad.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Herbert!...Herbert!...Herbert!...

I always wondered why those space hippies kept saying that. Who the hell was Herbert, anyway? Maybe they picked it just because it sounded bad.

According to Spock in the episode, he was some minor official somewhere, notorious for his rigid and limited patterns of thought.

 

[matthunter]

I thought Q was the god of the trek universe?

Well, if you accept the novels as canon, the "Q-Strike" trilogy depicts the Galactic Barrier as a construct of the Q Continuum to hold back a potentially even more powerful being called 0 (who they trapped whilst temporarily depowered). He's more powerful because he's without self-imposed limits... i.e. batshit insane.

His partners in crime were also trapped or contained... the Gorgon entity from "And the Children Shall Lead" and the "God" of Sybok's mystical Sha-Ka-Ree...

 

[publiusr]

I love that idea--as well as what is beyond that barrier...

 

[AirCommodore]

And what do we know from Star Trek universe about what is beyond the milky way?

He just seemed like a rogue entity that was imprisoned there. There are a few species mentioned that are from beyond the Milky Way. The Kelvans were from the Andromeda Galaxy, as were the species that created the Androids from "I, Mudd". "Sylvia" and the bald guy were from another Galaxy, but I don't think they ever said which one. 8472 probably counts too since "fluidic space" doesn't exist in this Galaxy.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I thought Q was the god of the trek universe?

Well, if you accept the novels as canon, the "Q-Strike" trilogy depicts the Galactic Barrier as a construct of the Q Continuum to hold back a potentially even more powerful being called 0 (who they trapped whilst temporarily depowered). He's more powerful because he's without self-imposed limits... i.e. batshit insane.

His partners in crime were also trapped or contained... the Gorgon entity from "And the Children Shall Lead" and the "God" of Sybok's mystical Sha-Ka-Ree...

And also (*), the thing from "Day of the Dove".

 

[The Old Mixer]

How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of the galaxy? The world may never know....

 

[Poltargyst]

Gene Roddenberry was an atheist. He went out of his way to have anti-religious themes in his stories. There wouldn't be a Star Trek story where there's actually a God let alone God living at the center of the Milky Way.