Star Trek: VOY episode
"Q2"
Young Q recites an essay about the Q Continuum.
Episode no.	Season 7, Episode 17
Prod. code	265
Airdate	April 11, 2001
Writer(s)	Kenneth Biller & Robert J. Doherty
Director	LeVar Burton
Year	2377
Episode chronology
Previous	"Workforce"
Next	"Author, Author"

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Plot summary

Q shows up on USS Voyager to introduce Kathryn Janeway to her godson, who now has the appearance of human teenager. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The USS Voyager is a fictional starship in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the Intrepid class starship (NCC-74656) is a 24th century Starfleet vessel under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. ... Kathryn Janeway (Born: May 20, 2336 in Bloomington, Indiana), a fictional character of the Star Trek universe played by Kate Mulgrew, was the commanding officer (with the rank of Captain) of the USS Voyager NCC-74656 (2371-2378) in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. ...

Q explains that young Q needs some discipline and hopes that Janeway will be able to impart it to him. Q leaves and young Q starts making all sorts of trouble for the Voyager crew, like turning Engineering into a nightclub.

Disappointed by young Q's lack of progress, Q takes away young Q's powers and leaves once again. After a rough start, young Q gains Icheb's trust and kidnaps him on the Delta Flyer on a tour of the galaxy. They run into a Chokuzan ship, which fires a neural weapon at the Delta Flyer leaving Icheb incapacitated. Young Q returns to Voyager and pleads the Doctor to save Icheb. The Doctor is powerless without knowledge about the Chokuzan weapon. When young Q finally admits that it's his fault Icheb is paralyzed, Q reveals that he simulated the Chokuzan ship as a test, to see if the young Q had improved. He then gets the Q Continuum to restore young Q's powers. Icheb is a fictional character in Star Trek: Voyager played by Manu Intiraymi. ... In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Delta Flyer is a scout-class spaceship attached to USS Voyager. ... The Doctor is a character on the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. ...

Grateful for Janeway's help, Q places Voyager several light-years closer to home, but not all the way.

Guest stars

• Scott Davidson as Bolian
• Anthony Holiday as Nausicaan
• Manu Intiraymi as Icheb
• Michael Kagan as Chokuzan commander
• John de Lancie as Q
• Keegan de Lancie as Q2
• Lorna Raver as Q-Judge