Star Trek: 10 Characters Who Got Away With Murder

"Don't you Aunt Kathy me!" Aunt Kathy (Captain Janeway) said to young-but-immortally-old nephew, Q Junior, who'd just brought Itchy, sorry, Icheb back from a little spatial flexure excursion to the Clevari system. Like father like son, Q Junior had been getting away with murder in the figurative sense across the universe, and aboard Voyager, before changing his ways, changing back, and then changing his ways again. In the end, Q Junior didn't have to spend the rest of his days as the worst next thing to an Oprelian amoeba — a human being — but the lack of that particular punishment certainly wasn't due to a lack of trying.

Q Senior, if such a title can ever make any sense for the almighty, was the trickster god introduced by Gene Roddenberry in early rewrites of Encounter At Farpoint. During a lot of thee-ing and thou-ing in that episode as part of his am-dram rundown of Earth's military history, Q took the time to freeze the unfortunate Lieutenant Torres (not that one!) from head-to-toe on the spot. Somehow (Doctor Crusher really was just that good), Torres survived being turned into a human lollipop, and so did Lieutenant Yar later on. Nonetheless, that was still a pretty murderous opening move on the part of Q, especially since Torres was never any kind of threat.

Q for 'form an orderly…', then, with the supreme being's other victims, although typically indirect. Worf and Wesley found themselves on the end of a bayonet during one of Q's games, only restored to life by Commander Riker in Q form. The families of those Enterprise-D crewmembers scooped out by Borg cutting beam might well have wanted Q to answer to some form of justice too, but it's difficult to see what jurisdiction would have the competence to try him other than the Continuum itself, and they're rather one note when it comes to sentencing. The Federation would have a hell of a time keeping Q confined, unless he was already human… again.