#tng encounter at Farpoint

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry Q [encounter at farpoint, s1ep1] 'Thou are notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately.' - q

[trek-tracks]

My theory on how it went down

[hobbithabits]

Seeing people post about parts of Star Trek I haven’t seen and then seeing it is so crazy to me. You’re telling me Q’s cunty judge outfit is from EPISODE ONE of TNG??? Sat down to finally binge it and was greeted with John de Lancie serving looks almost immediately. Absolutely bonkers.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek The Next Generation “Encounter at Farpoint”

[geekysteven]

[speed dating]

HER: "My parents named me 'Dax' after the Star Trek character. I like having a unique name"

HIM, NAMED GROPPLER ZORN: "I'm really happy for you"

[dataentryspecialist]

[agent-troi]

rewatching encounter at farpoint and it’s just sooooo funny to me how seriously picard takes Q at first, and by the third time he shows up picard is like 🙄😒WTF DO YOU WANT NOW Q I JUST WANT TO ENJOY MY EARL GREY IN PEACE

[warpfactor9]

i mentioned this in an earlier post and didn't have the clips on hand then, but i do now! so here's the neat parallel between the Vulcan and Betazoid telepathy used in The Devil in the Dark (TOS: 1x25) and Encounter at Farpoint (TNG: 1x01) respectively!

[rainbowpopeworld]

The least believable thing about STTNG Encounter at Farpoint is that the red delicious apple was actually delicious 🍎😂😂

[regalpotato]

11 years vs 22 years

[martianbugsbunny]

Will Riker was beardless in early Next Gen bc the space T hadn't kicked in yet actually

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry Groppler Zorn of Deneb IV [encounter at farpoint, s1ep2] 'Please believe me, we meant no harm to the creature. It was starving for energy.' - zorn

[trek-tracks]

Androids Love Him! Death Fears Him

[dat4l0re]

I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a vulcan.

[spockvarietyhour]

Star Trek Voyager “Death Wish” & Star Trek The Next Generation “Encounter at Farpoint”

[stellarred]

IS DEANNA TROI PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR QCARD???

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Q really didn't like Deanna Troi after Encounter at Farpoint, because near the end when Picard made that "bargain" with Q, pleading him to allow him to reach his Away Team, while they were on the attacking ship (jellyfish), we had this conversation:

Picard: My people are in trouble over there, Q...Please let me help them.

Q:

Picard: I'll do whatever you say.

*The Away Team fizzles onto the Bridge.*

Q: You'll do whatever I say...*Q leans forward, gazing intently at Picard.*

Picard: *looks at the Away Team*: Seems as though I did make that bargain.

Troi intervenes by saying, "It was not Q that saved us!"

Q then exclaims, "She lies...Make phasers and photons ready!"

Picard, of course, refuses to do what Q says, and then he procedes to put the pieces of the Farpoint mystery together as his Away Team colleagues share the new information that they'd learned through their comparison of the two alien structures.

But to think that Q almost had a chance to have Picard all to himself, with Picard doing whatever Q said, if Troi hadn't opened her mouth about the attacking ship saving them and not Q.

Perhaps in that moment Q thought, "Maybe he won't notice that the Away Team appeared on his Bridge in a purple, swirling light instead of my standard Q flash?"

Picard, for a moment, didn't take notice of that detail.

Darn that Deanna Troi and her Betazoid senses!

Alas, Picard manages to wriggle out of his little bargain with Q, as the entity allows Picard to solve the Farpoint puzzle and unite the jellyfish creatures.

Side note: I love how Q, standing behind Picard, kept looking at him. I wish I knew what he was thinking.

And then, Troi had to have her sappy moment with the whole "A feeling of great joy! It's so wonderful!" (Q: 🤢)

Poor Q. Skunked in the first episode.

We know it was for the best, though. Q was definitely in his jerky, self-serving phase of TNG, with his lessons to teach Picard (and his other expressions of love for Picard) coming later.

Neither of them were ready for a relationship at this point, and we very likely wouldn't have had any Qcard canon had Picard kept his deal with Q. It might have been amusing on Q's part to have Picard doing whatever Q said (with "whatever" being who knows?) but, Picard wouldn't have liked it.

A potential hookup with the one, who just put you and your entire race on trial?

Perhaps in that moment, and I'm reeeaaalllyy stretching it here, Troi had a slight hand in starting the evolution of Qcard.

Qcard has been a slow burn from the very start, and if Picard thought that Q had indeed saved his crew, and he joined him, the slow burn very likely wouldn't have even had a chance to catch fire at all.