- Alternate Character Interpretation:
- Picard's Patrick Stewart Speech of the episode has him call out the Q for their abuse of power despite their proclamations of greater morality, stating humans are more moral than Q. And Q doesn't deny any of it. Is it simply that he's impressed with Picard, or does he actually agree with him that Q don't possess any superior form of morality? Or given that he states he enjoys Picard's speeches, was his talk of The Right of a Superior Species just an attempt to rile him up?
- Another possibility considering Q's bemused expression during the speech is that he still believes Picard is being incredibly naïve. During the episode, he more than once cautions Picard on his naïveté.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The plot involves a young orphan raised by others who discovers that she is not a regular person, but in fact has magical powers. Furthermore, the deepest desire of her heart is to know what her birth parents looked like. All of this also applies to Harry Potter.
- Q is disgusted by Riker's beard, but will voluntarily sport one decades later in Star Trek: Picard.
- Amanda Rogers is a blonde adoptee played by a Fake American. The ensuing decade after this episode’s airing would see an Australian actress born under the same name see great success playing Fake Americans, one of them being a blonde adoptee.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Given that Riker has previous experience with being offered the powers of Q, it would have made sense to assign him as an advisor to Amanda. Which might have been fun given she had her own reasons for wanting to spend time with him.
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