Star Trek: Every Q Episode Ranked Worst To Best
7. Qpid
This is where the comedy in the Next Generation really started to take off. Dropping the main characters into Sherwood Forest and into the adventures of Robin Hood really gives them all a chance to shine. It was remembered fondly by all involved in the episode, offering pretty much everyone their own stand out moments.
Returning Director Cliff Bole had a blast, delighted again to be directing a Q episode but also to get to direct a Robin Hood story. Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was hugely popular at the time.
Vash makes her final appearance in the Next Generation here, firmly catching Q's eye and disappearing off with him to, we later find out, the Gamma Quadrant to study and steal. While that plotline itself would die a death in Deep Space Nine, the chemistry on screen between Jennifer Hetrick and then-fiance Patrick Stewart along with de Lancie is a very effective love triangle.
The episode did receive criticism over its depiction of the female characters. Vash becomes the damsel who needs to be saved while Troi and Beverly are consigned to the back, bashing people over the head, while in reality both actresses had training with swords. Bole commented on the fact that the episode was set in the 12th Century and therefore they played with the gender roles that would have been expected at the time.
A middling response. Yet the episode is worth the investment for Worf's exclamations alone, along with his appreciation for Geordi's sub-par mandolin playing.