Q2 (Voyager episode)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Q2"
Young Q recites an essay about the Q Continuum.
Episode no.	Season 7, Episode 17
Prod. code	265
Airdate	April 11, 2001
Writer(s)	Kenneth Biller & Robert J. Doherty
Director	LeVar Burton
Year	2377
Episode chronology
Previous	"Workforce"
Next	"Author, Author"

Q2 was an episode broadcast of the seventh season of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, first airing in the winter of 2001.

[edit] Plot summary

Q shows up on USS Voyager to introduce Kathryn Janeway to her godson, who now has the appearance of human teenager.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Q explains that young Q needs some discipline and hopes that Janeway will be able to impart it to him. Q leaves and young Q starts making all sorts of trouble for the Voyager crew, like turning Engineering into a nightclub.

Disappointed by young Q's lack of progress, Q takes away young Q's powers and leaves once again. After a rough start, young Q gains Icheb's trust and kidnaps him on the Delta Flyer on a tour of the galaxy. They run into a Chokuzan ship, which fires a neural weapon at the Delta Flyer leaving Icheb incapacitated. Young Q returns to Voyager and pleads the Doctor to save Icheb. The Doctor is powerless without knowledge about the Chokuzan weapon. When young Q finally admits that it's his fault Icheb is paralyzed, Q reveals that he simulated the Chokuzan ship as a test, to see if the young Q had improved. He then gets the Q Continuum to restore young Q's powers.

Grateful for Janeway's help, Q gives Janeway information which will get Voyager a few light-years closer to home.