Hide and Q (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 10 |
| Production Number | 111 |
| Release Date | 23 Nov 1987 |
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Stardate 41590.5: Q invites Riker to join the Continuum.
Q returns as the Enterprise races to help a disaster-struck mining colony, and this time his focus is on Commander Riker. Q creates a bizarre test for the first officer and his away team by sending fanged humanoids in Napoleonic uniforms to attack them. Then he tempts Riker by giving him the powers of the Q Continuum, allowing him to resurrect Worf and Wesley Crusher, who were killed in the skirmish.
Riker worries about the power's influence on him, and when the Enterprise reaches the survivors of the mining disaster, he refuses to use the powers to revive a dead girl. Guilt over the decision leads him to yield to the power, and when Q urges him to grant his friends' wishes, Picard does not object: sight for La Forge, adulthood for Wesley Crusher, a Klingon mate for Worf, humanity for Data. But as Picard had predicted, they all decline the gifts because of their origin: Q. Riker understands the lesson, and a humiliated Q is recalled by the Continuum for losing their bet, taking Riker's powers with him.
Director
Cliff Bole
Story
Maurice Hurley (as C.J. Holland)
Teleplay
Maurice Hurley (as C.J. Holland) & Gene Roddenberry
Starring
Patrick Stewart … Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes … Commander Will Riker
Brent Spiner … Lieutenant Commander Data
Gates McFadden … Dr. Crusher, Beverly
Marina Sirtis … Counselor Deanna Troi
Denise Crosby … Lieutenant Tasha Yar
LeVar Burton … Lieutenant, j.g. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn … Lieutenant, j.g. Worf
Wil Wheaton … Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher
Guest Starring
John de Lancie … Q
Elaine Nalee … Disaster Survivor
William A. Wallace … Wesley Crusher (at 25)
