Time jump with Q
| Episode of the series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century | |||
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| title | Time jump with Q | ||
| Original title | Q Who? | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 45 minutes | ||
| classification | Season 2 , episode 16 42nd episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | May 6, 1989 | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
April 10, 1992 on ZDF | ||
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| Director | Rob Bowman | ||
| script | Maurice Hurley | ||
| production | Robert McCullough | ||
| music | Ron Jones | ||
| camera | Edward R. Brown | ||
| cut | Monty DeGraff | ||
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Zeitsprung mit Q is the 42nd episode of the US television series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century . It was first broadcast in the USA in May 1989 and in Germany in April 1992. It is about the first contact of the Enterprise crew with the enemy Borg, a species with collective consciousness whose representatives are human-machine hybrids.
action
Captain Picard is unexpectedly kidnapped from the Enterprise by Q and transferred to a shuttle ship that was also kidnapped. Picard's disappearance is only known on the Enterprise after Guinan and Troi had an uncomfortable feeling. Provided that Picard hears Q's suggestions, Q transfers Picard back to the Enterprise, where - to mutual disgust - he meets Guinan. He asks to be allowed to serve on the Enterprise, explaining that the crew is not prepared for the dangers in the galaxy. After Picard decidedly refuses, Q replies to the Enterprise with the words "Let's see how well prepared you are!" to a position 7,000 light years away in the galaxy.
There the Enterprise encounters a cube-shaped spaceship of the Borg , a race with collective consciousness and with living beings that consist of humanoid bodies and associated machines. Picard and his colleagues learn from Guinan that the Borg once wiped out most of Guinan's people and scattered the survivors across the galaxy. After two Borg inspect the Enterprise's engine room, the ship tracks the Enterprise with a tractor beam, cuts a hole in the Enterprise's saucer section with a laser, killing 18 crew members. The tractor beam can only be destroyed by phaser bombardment at the highest energy level, which gives the crew a respite.
To find out more about the Borg, Picard sends an away team onto the Borg ship, which is equipped with countless alcoves, where they are simply ignored, as they do not pose a threat from the Borg's point of view. The team discovers, among other things, that the Borg have a much more sophisticated technology than the Federation and can regenerate themselves. The Enterprise then flees, but is pursued and loses its protective shields due to fire. Their own weapons now prove to be ineffective, so that the takeover of the ship seems inevitable. Picard is forced to admit to Q that they obviously weren't prepared for anything and that he needs his help. Q then moves the Enterprise back to its starting position.
Guinan explains to the captain that the Borg - now that they know of the existence of the Federation - would certainly soon be heading for Federation territory. Picard thoughtfully suggests that humanity may have actually acted too confidently so far.
reception
The US magazine Cinefantastique rated the episode as only one of two of the second season with four out of four stars and highlighted it as belonging to the best of Star Trek .
At the Emmy Awards in 1989, the episode was awarded in the categories Best Sound Mixing for a Drama Series and Best Sound Editing for a Series , in the category Best Achievement in Visual Special Effects it remained the nomination.
production
The Borg caused a budget overrun of around $ 50,000. A day of shooting was canceled to get the episode under control economically. Originally, the Borg were initially planned as insect-like life forms that should act like a kind of termite cluster. This has been changed to a man-machine combination. The character Sonya Gomez was introduced in this episode. She was the prototype of the not-so-perfect team member. The character was deleted after another episode by a power word from Gene Roddenberry and replaced by the successor Lt. Barclay replaced. Roddenberry had no objection to the Borg. The German title suggests a journey through time, which however does not take place in the episode.
Web links
- Q Who in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Time jump with Q in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- Time jump with Q at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinefantastique No. 2, Sep. 1990 (21st year), p. 37
- ↑ Awards , in: IMDb, accessed on February 28, 2014
- ^ Edvard Gross Mark Altman " Captain's Logbook " - Heel Verlag - ISBN 3-893-65376-7
- ↑ Ralph Sander " The Star Trek Universe " - Volume 1 - Page 348-350 - Heyne Verlag - ISBN 3-453-07759-8