10 Crazy Star Trek Fan Theories
9. There Was A Q In The Original Series
Q is a mysterious alien entity, with powers comfortably in the omnipotent scale, with a demented sense of humour, and a deep-rooted love of bothering the crews of ships names Enterprise. If his arrival on The Next Generation seemed familiar to fans of the original series that's because it was.
In the episode The Squire of Gothos, they encountered a being known as Trelane who, despite taking human form, displayed the trademark god-like powers of a Q. He distorts time and space seemingly at will, genuinely gets a kick out of being an impossible, juvenile turd, and stop me if you've heard this one before, places the crew of the Enterprise on trial.
Yes, ok, it is revealed that some mechanical trickery is involved with this but, if he was a Q, then it's not as if that also being a deception is beyond the realms of possibility. Either way, it hasn't stopped fans from speculating at length that he is a juvenile member of the Continuum, with numerous fan theories detailing precisely where and how he's weaved his particular brand of mischief in the Star Trek universe.