I also had no idea the top portion of the Starship Enterprise could separate like that. That was pretty sweet.
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And miss “The Measure of a Man”?
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My wife hates him so much, but loved TNG.
He only show up like once or twice a season.
I like him, but I can see why people wouldn’t.
I hate Q but love TNG.
Fortunately he is in few episodes, but unfortunately he is very influential plot-wise when he does appear.
It doesn’t ruin how great TNG is to me at all, though
Same
Hot take: you don’t fully appreciate Q until you’ve watched all the episodes he’s in. That includes the ones in Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
And StarCraft 2 and Heroes of the Storm
don’t forget the old compaq videos.
Wait, this is news to me. Q is in voyager?! /s
Yeah he tries to get funky with Janeway
Pepe le Q.
Don’t forget his cameo in Breaking Bad
Are the West Wing episodes required as well?
And the sc2 campaign for his role as Alarak, Highlord of the Taldarim!
For some reason I feel compelled to up-boop the reference to MLP 🤔😅
I wish we could create playlists like this for shows. I don’t have the interest to watch deep space 9 but I love Q. Same goes for Clone Wars, don’t have the time but a few threads are important.
I had no idea there were people who didn’t like Q. His introduction is by far the weakest thing about him but Q is honestly hilarious in subsequent episodes and I think his race are a very poignant commentary on what an actual race of godlike beings would be like if real.
He’s a pretty major character, but that only means one or two episodes per season. He’s just got a thing for Picard
Yeah, a thing. Minor spoiler.
I don’t know why it’s hilarious to me that Picard pulls up his covers like he’s ashamed at Q seeing him in the nude, as though he isn’t a multidimensional demigod who probably can see through Picard’s clothes anyway if he so wished.
It’s just such a cute and pointless attempt at privacy with a nearly all powerful being. Like dude he just magicked himself into your bed, you think he didn’t already get a good look?
Patrick Stewart : So in my film, I play a man who controls the world with his mind.
Andy Millman : Right. Oh, that’s interesting.
Patrick Stewart : Yeah. For instance, I’m walking along, and I see this beautiful girl, and I think I’d like to see her naked, and so all her clothes fall off.
Andy Millman : All her - clothes fall off?
Patrick Stewart : Yes, and she’s scrabbling around to get them back on again, but even before she can get her knickers on, I’ve seen everything. Yeah. I’ve seen it all.
Be honest: you just wanted an excuse to post that reference, didn’t you?
I actually remembered it after I made the comment, and edited it in. Realized how Patrick Stewart at least already understands.
But it’s also true that I’ll drop this reference any time I get a chance because it never fails to crack me up.
He gets better. I remember not being a big fan when I first saw him too.
He doesn’t really get better, but later on the circumstances that appear around him make Q more palatable.
You’re supposed to hate Q. The Enterprise crew hates Q. He is an annoying trickster god.
How big of an ongoing factor is “Q?” Because I kind of hate him.
Blaspheme! Will no one rid me of this turbulent critique?
He’ll grow on you eventually. And if he doesn’t, watch Voyager and DS9 to see him suffer 😈
Sisko’s whole attitude to Q is just so damn funny. “I’M NOT PICARD!”
His transformation during the series is interesting. He’s developing as he learns about humanity.
Also don’t miss the episodes in Voyager featuring him ;-)
If you don’t like him, you can just skip his episodes & not miss much.
I disagree. Borg much?
That said, I was never able to decide whether I hated Q or Wesley more.
It’s always Wesley in questions like this.
Does Tapestry count? Because that’s a great episode that shouldn’t be skipped.
I mean, “Q Who” is kind of important to the series, if not the franchise as a whole.
Well… and the finale.
He shows up here and there, I don’t know maybe 1.5 times a season or something. I’d need to check exact counts.
Honestly, if you started from scratch nothing you see in season one applies.
Just… assume everything reboots after but they keep the lore. It’ll be fine.
In season 1 Riker doesn’t have a beard, which is your first clue it’s a holodeck simulation.
I saw some people say to start with Season 3, but it felt weird. Should I just skip Season 1?
When I first started TNG I just looked up a list of the best episodes from season 1 and 2 and watched those then went straight to season 3. After I finished the show and loved it, I went back and rewatched seasons 1 and 2 fully. So that’s a good option if you just wanna get to the good stuff quicker, and each episode is (for the most part) it’s own self contained episode so you don’t miss much by skipping parts of seasons 1 and 2 IMO as long as you watch the good episodes.
I’m on break at work so I don’t have time to find the list I used but sure you can find something easily with a Google search or someone else here might recommend the best episodes of those seasons.
I’d say no, but muscle through it even if it’s not clicking.
Frankly, there are great episodes in the first two seasons, it just hadn’t fully hit a groove where you can just watch it and at least expect it to be ok to good (or hilarious) every time. The hatred for the first seasons is overhyped.
But yeah, a lot of the creaky joints, be it Picard being weirdly hostile and disengaged from the action, Q being weird and grating and Wesley being mishandled do go away eventually.
I’d agree with the other comment as well. The first two seasons are bumpy but they build a lot.
Skipping them, even where they’re rough, does you a disservice in the long run. It’s well worth the trouble.
The first couple seasons were still under Gene Roddenberry’s control. He maintained that there should not be any conflict between the crew members. That made the first couple seasons a little strange.
Interesting that it’s considered to have gotten better when he wasn’t controlling it? I didn’t realize that.
He had his eccentricities. It’s hard to make a compelling show about human stories when the main cast aren’t allowed to have interpersonal conflicts. But his vision of the utopian future would be that society wouldn’t have in-fighting anymore.
Just skip the Riker Clip Show at the end of season 2, and you’ll be fine. Apparently that episode was created because writers were on strike at the time
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Thanks, you talked me back into sticking with it from the beginning. I’d wonder what I missed if I skipped a whole season or two, I think.
A lot. People here keep mentioning “Q Who?” as important. It very much is, to the entire franchise, not just TNG. And in the end, when Picard is musing aloud over what happened, it’ll be your first opportunity to consider that Q might have done them a favor in his way and is more complex than you thought.
Before it’s too late: Skip episode 4. “Code of Honor,” alternate title: “The Gang Gets Racist”
Don’t forget “Racism 2: Irish Boogaloo” when O’Brien beams up that colony of goat herders.
Unless you are a completist who’s willing to sit through the less than good episodes, you may want to use an episode guide such as this one which I found useful when I went back to rewatch it. Yes Q is kind of annoying, that’s actually his character and how everyone in the show feels about him too. But there are also some fantastic episodes with him, so once you get to those, you may not hate his presence as much.
I feel compelled to recommend this guide by a long time Daystrom Institute contributor. It does an excellent job identifying episodes as essential, unnecessary but fun, mediocre, or outright bad. A good place to work from if you want a more flexible recommendation of what to try and what not to.
