10 Best Star Trek: Voyager Episodes Not About The Main Cast

Star Trek: Voyager's second season introduced two members of the Q Continuum to the show. Aside from the always-welcome John de Lancie as the familiar Q, there is also Gerrit Graham's Quinn. He has been imprisoned for all time in a lonely comet, floating through space, cramped and awful. He is accidentally released by Voyager, beginning a chase through time and space. This is only settled when Captain Janeway accepts his request for a hearing for asylum.

The episode then, rather surprisingly, becomes a rumination on the ethics of euthanasia, suicide, and the purpose of eternal life. Quinn argues passionately that a thing should be held special if it is finite, while Q argues that the impact this individual has made on history suggests that the universe is a better place with him in it.

The audience sees inside the Continuum for the first time in Star Trek history, and it is a grim sight. An endless road, stretching from where they've all been until where'll they'll all end up, though it is suggested it's really a big circle at the end of it all.

Janeway finds in favour in Quinn, though implores him to experience his newfound mortality. Having had enough of existence, he implores Q to provide him with a means to end his life, introducing some very important questions to de Lancie's character, and leaving the Voyager crew dealing with the knowledge that, sometimes, simply living for life's sake isn't for everyone.