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Q admiral

Q as a Starfleet admiral.

The being known as Q is an extremely powerful entity and a member of the non-corporeal Q Continuum. The first recorded encounter between Q and the United Federation of Planets took place aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2364, when he placed humanity on trail for being a "dangerous, savage, child-race." He has appeared numerous times since, most often taking the form of a humanoid Starfleet Captain, frequently interacting with the Enterprise crew, especially Jean-Luc Picard. He eventually formed a brief partnership with Vash, and later took an interest in Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "Q-Pid", et. al; DS9: "Q-Less"; VOY: "Death Wish", et. al)

Often a juvenile, "fun-loving" trickster, Q's most enduring legacy in his encounters with humanity is infinitely more somber: he was directly responsible for "introducing" the Federation - in the person of the Enterprise crew - to the Borg Collective in 2365, which eventually led to the disastrous Battle of Wolf 359 and the near assimilation of Earth. (TNG: "Q Who", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")

Q was also embroiled in a civil war within the Continuum, which ended when he fathered a child with a female Q, supposedly ushering in a "new era" for the Q Continuum. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")

In 2387, Q appeared in an alternate timeline after Annika Hansen suffered from hallucinations and the Romulans were seemingly praised because they have changed ways. However, the Klingons of that alternate timeline were more industrious so they actually fulfilled all the contracts for PumwI'-class and QeylIS BetleH-class ships they signed with the Romulans, making them have five of the former and one of the latter. (RIS Bouteina: "Limit at Plus Infinity")

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