Star Trek: VOY episode
"The Q and the Grey"
Q wants Janeway to have his baby
Episode no.	53
Prod. code	153
Airdate	November 27, 1996
Writer(s)	Shawn Piller Kenneth Biller
Director	Cliff Bole
Guest star(s)	John de Lancie as Q Suzie Plakson as Female Q Harve Presnell as Q Colonel
Year	2373
Stardate	50384.2
Episode chronology
Previous	"Warlord"
Next	"Macrocosm"

The Q and the Grey is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 11^th episode of the third season. Image File history File links ST-VOY_The_Q_and_the_Grey. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Image:ShawnPiller. ... Kenneth Biller is a television producer, television writer, television director as well as television editor, best known for his work in Star Trek: Voyager. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Cliff Bole is a director of a number of American and Canadian television programs. ... John de Lancie John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is a U.S. character actor. ... Suzie Plakson as KEhleyer in The Emissary Suzie Plakson (born June 3, 1958) is an American television actress. ... Harve Presnell (born September 14, 1933, Modesto, California) is an American actor. ... A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ... Stardate is one of the dating conventions used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... Warlord is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 10th episode of the third season. ... Macrocosm is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 12th episode of the third season. ... The starship Voyager (NCC-74656), an Intrepid-class starship. ...

Plot synopsis

Captain Kathryn Janeway is surprised (to say the least) when Q appears in her quarters one night. Q is intent on Janeway becoming the mother of his child, and plies the Captain with gifts in an attempt to win her affections. Janeway is not amused, and demands that Q leave immediately. Q is persistent, claiming that he could have chosen any female in the galaxy but that his desire for Janeway should be regarded as an honor. Janeway continues to insist that Q leave, and eventually he does. Kathryn Janeway (Born: May 20, 2332 in Bloomington, Indiana), played by Kate Mulgrew, is a Starfleet officer in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

However, Q's absence does not last long, as he abducts the captain and takes her to the Q Continuum, now appearing as an American Civil War period piece, with Q dressed in the uniform of a Union officer. Confederate soldiers fire on them, and Q is wounded - surprising Janeway to no end. Q's sense of urgency becomes apparent: There is a real civil war brewing among the Q race, and Q hopes that he and Janeway can bring a child into the continuum (which has not had a natural birth in billions of years) to avert the war. Q explains that the civil war started because of him - he leads a faction of the Q which advocates individual freedom, rather than the status quo enforced by the Q at large. Q shows Janeway the carnage that the war has inflicted on his group (represented by a refugee camp in which hundreds of wounded Q, all appearing as Union soldiers, are suffering). Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The 21st Michigan Infantry, a company of Shermans veterans. ... Some Confederate soldiers The Confederate States Army (CSA) was formed in February 1861 to defend the Confederate States of America, which had itself been formed that same year when seven Southern states seceded from the United States (four more states soon followed). ... A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight against each other for the control of political power. ... Refugee camp for Rwandans located in what is now the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following the Rwandan Genocide A refugee camp is a temporary camp built up by governments or NGOs (such as the ICRC) to receive refugees. ...

The fighting breaks out again, and the Q authorities (represented as Confederate soldiers) arrive and capture Q and Janeway. The Q leader, appearing as a Confederate colonel, intends to execute them both, to serve as an example to the rest of Q's freedom faction.

On Voyager, the remaining crew have been observing dozens of supernovae taking place throughout the area - many more than should be occurring. A Q female arrives and says that the civil war among the Q is the cause. The female Q is abrasive and insulting to the crew, and she explains that she is Q's ex-wife. As the civil war continues to rage, the female Q realizes she has lost her powers, and is forced to enlist the aid of the Voyager crew. She helps them reach the Q continuum by flying into a supernova, and provides the Voyager crew with Q weapons which they use to free Q and Janeway. Q and his wife resume their relationship and decide to become parents themselves, thus providing the Q continuum with "new blood" which they hope will revitalize the species. USS Voyager can refer to: The motorboat USS Voyager (SP-361) that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and in the United States Coast Guard from 1919 to c. ... Multiwavelength X-ray image of the remnant of Keplers Supernova, SN 1604. ...

External links

• The Q and the Grey article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
• Episode summary from Startrek.com