Holland and Gene Roddenberry
Story By: C.J. The colonists are in luck (as are Trekkies who have had their fill of “Pain! There’s been an accident, and they need urgent medical attention. it’s one of the classic Sci-Fi cliches.)

The Enterprise kicks it up to Warp 9.1, but quickly runs into a familiar and no-longer-mysterious giant CGI net that the ship can’t pass. Faster than you can say, “Hey, that’s the ILM-designed thing Q used in ‘Encounter at Farpoint!’” input says, “Captain! So much pain!”) considering the Enterprise has just dropped off Counselor Troi at Starbase G-6, putting them close abundant to Sigma III to speed on by and save the 500 or so trapped miners. Holland
Directed by: Cliff Bole
Episode: S01E010
Stardate: 41590.5

Synopsis: The Enterprise receives a distress signal from a colony on Quadra Sigma III, which is just a few planets before eMac Sigma III. It’s that ILM-designed thing Q used in ‘Encounter at Farpoint!’” They put on the brakes, and in a blinding flash of light, Q

appears on the Bridge, and tells Picard that he’s decided that humans are not just a bunch of shitcocks, and as a reward, he’s giving them a really swell gift.

Picard tells Q that it’s very sweet of him to offer, but they’re on their way to save those trapped miners on Quadra Sigma III, where there are plus radioactive mutants, a sentient brain in a jar, a computer that’s become self-aware and turned on its creator, beings of pure energy, and a signal that’s coming from inside the house, so perhaps they could just talk about that some other date.

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. . (Ah, trapped miners on a far off colony .

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Title: Hide and Q
Original Air period: November 23, 1987
Teleplay By: C.J.

Original post by Wil Wheaton