History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E6TrueQ

* HostileWeather: The Q used a tornado to execute Amanda's parents for refusing to refrain from using their powers. Learning of how her parents died Picard was surprised since by the 24th century weather technology would normally dissipate destructive weather phenomena before it could do any damage.

* HumanAlienDiscovery: Amanda comes aboard the Enterprise as a Starfleet intern to study with Doctor Crusher. During the course of the episode it's revealed that she's actually a HalfHumanHybrid, the product of two members of the Q Continuum conceiving a child while they were living human lives.;

* VisualPun: Q turns Dr. Crusher into a bitch.

[[caption-width-right:350:This one is kind of a precursor to the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episodes that delve a little further into the whole Q Continuum. Easy there, Q; you usually [[HoYay only get that close to Picard.]]]]

* ComesGreatResponsibility: Though it's being said by Q, so take the sentiment with a grain of salt.
-->'''Q:''' With unlimited power comes responsibility.

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* VisualPun: Q turns Dr. Crusher into a [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: Q reveals that the Q Continuum actually do feel a great amount of responsibility for their powers and won't let an omnipotent being run amok in the universe without any restraint. Even though Q is an obnoxious prankster, he's never been nearly as malevolent as he could be.

* ShoutOut: The freak tornado incident in Kansas might possibly be one to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

** Amanda Rogers herself would become this for anyone who saw the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]''-based Q episodes, all of which dealt with all of the problems tackled in this episode, but no mention of Amanda at all.
*** In fact she seems to have been declared CanonDiscontinuity due to one of said ''Voyager'' episodes stating outright that no Q had ever reproduced before, and that Q's son was the first "new blood" the Continuum had ever received.
*** This topic is actually addressed in the ''Literature/TheQContinuum'' trilogy, which includes a scene where Doctor Crusher talks with Q's wife about how her son is the first child truly born in the Continuum; when Crusher asks about Amanda, the female Q states that Amanda doesn't count as she was conceived and born in a purely human manner.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Inverted by Q, per usual. He's particularly disgusted that Amanda's parents conceived a child "and in vulgar human fashion became attached to it."

An A comes in the form of Q, who tells a stunned command staff that Amanda is a member of the Q Continuum. Her parents weren't human, but actually Q, who decided to live like the [[HumansAreUgly disgusting humans]], including the abominably disgusting act of mating. The Continuum was unsure whether this foul act would beget an offspring with Q powers, so they sent Q to oversee her and make sure she doesn't destroy the multiverse with her newfound powers. He wants to take Amanda back to the Continuum for study, but she objects...and throws him across the room. Picard suggests that he not do things like walk through a wall and inspect her like a human would inspect a bacteria...then tells Data after he leaves to look into her parent's "accident". Meanwhile, Q's shadow asks him for a progress report. He tells the Q he may have to "terminate the girl"...but he may not.

Dr. Crusher convinces Amanda to talk to Q again. Amanda doesn't want anyone on board to treat her any differently from any other member of the crew now that she's a Q. Q takes a more conversational tack, telling her that the Q are indeed omnipotent, and she can do anything she wants...like see her actual parents again, or speed up the process of the slow experiment Crusher has her doing. When Crusher complains, Q calls her a mutt for wasting Amanda's time with trivialities...then turns her into one. [[BuffySpeak A dog, I mean.]] Amanda, chagrined, turns her back.

Once again trying to alleviate her concerns, Q gives Amanda teleportation tips, by playing Hide and Seek, where Q limits himself to "Anywhere on the Enterprise". It takes Amanda awhile to figure out that he means that literally, and finally finds him on the outside hull. Meanwhile, Data informs Picard that Amanda's parents were killed by a Suspiciously Specific Tornado, one that shouldn't have happened thanks to the Federation's all powerful weather control machine. It suddenly appeared over the Rogers home, demolished just that one building, and then vanished.

Later, Amanda's eating lunch in Ten-Forward when she sees Riker again, and whisks herself and Riker to a romantic gazebo. Unfortunately, this does nothing to woo Riker...until she manipulates his mind to love her. But, of course, the artificial love proves...artificial...and Amanda puts him back the way he was.

Meantime, Q is summoned to Picard's ready room where Picard berates him from hiding the truth from Amanda. Q, blinded by the shine, admits that the Suspiciously Specific Tornado was the Q's doing. They let Amanda survive because she was deemed an innocent in all this, but now Q must determine if she's fully Q or some sort of human/Q hybrid (since apparently the mere act of human procreation injects human DNA into a being). If she's not fully Q, she's fully dead.

On Tagra IV, Geordi, Riker, and the Tagrans have whipped up some TechnoBabble that might work in their situation, and are going down to fix everything, just as Picard tells Amanda that the Q might have to kill her. Q shows up and says the Q are willing to make a deal: She can live as a human; however, she can never again use her powers. She immediately chooses to live as a Human.

Cue Tagra IV blowing up. Q says he didn't do it, nobody saw him do it, you can't prove anything...but he might have had a hunch. Needless to say, Amanda uses her newfound powers and saves the day. More than, in fact: she completely restores Tagra IV's ecosystem to peak condition. One crisis averted, another so very, very not. Q says he knew she would do it, and now she ''has'' to come with him, or else *splercht*. Amanda decides to accept her new status as a Q and go with them. And so, with a heart-felt goodbye to Dr. Crusher and her foster parents, Q whisks her away to the Continuum.

Incidentally, the story idea came from a 17-year-old AscendedFanboy; thus, the slightly Sue-ish qualities of Amanda Rogers and the utter lack of her in any other canon.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At one point, Q turns Dr. Crusher into a female canine...

* ScrewYouElves: Picard does with his PatrickStewartSpeech of the episode in response to Q's talk of TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies saying that Q have power, but they do not display any form of morality. Q is impressed, and interestingly he doesn't fire back, as though he on some level he actually agrees with Picard.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When Picard has had enough of Q's proclaiming TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies, he delivers PatrickStewartSpeech about how humans display far greater morality than he has ever seen from the Q. [[WowingCthulhu Q is impressed.]]

Later, Amanda's eating lunch in Ten-Forward when he sees Riker again, and whisks herself and Riker to a romantic gazebo. Unfortunately, this does nothing to woo Riker...until she manipulates his mind to love her. But, of course, the artificial love proves...artificial...and Amanda puts him back the way he was.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Creator/OliviaDAbo generally does a good job of hiding her natural British accent, though there are times where it does seem to slip through.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Olivia d'Abo generally does a good job of hiding her natural British accent, though there are times where it does seem to slip through.

* HumanAlienDiscovery: Amanda comes aboard the Enterprise as a Starfleet intern to study with Doctor Crusher. During the course of the episode it's revealed that she's actually a HalfHumanHybrid, the product of a human being and a member of the ultra powerful Q Continuum.

* RefusalOfTheCall: Amanda first decides she wants to be human rather than a member of the Q Continuum. She later changes her mind when she learns she will be killed if she doesn't become a Q.

* RefusalOfTheCall

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Q was last seen with Vash in tow, but no mention was made of her here. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E07QLess "Q-Less"]] would explain her whereabouts, but that episode wouldn't air for another couple of months. This episode also takes place before that one because O'Brien hasn't yet been transferred.