OK, so Kirk notices Trelayne is always focusing attention on a mirror in his ballroom – that must be the Source of his Power! So he connives to get a gun in his hand and shoots it, revealing some kind of sputtering machinery behind the glass. Trelayne looks astonished and Kirk and company beam up and leave. But then Trelayne chases them down, transports Kirk back to Gothos to stand trial, play “The Most Dangerous Game,” etc. Very well – then what was that machine for, anyway? If Trelayne didn’t need it, why was he so distressed at its destruction?
That was Trelayne’s groovy hi-fi set that he’d finally gotten set up just right, and Kirk came along and ruined it.
Well, one could say since Trelayne was a “child” he needed a little extra help with his powers. Maybe it was like a set of training wheels.
It was an energy amplifier of sorts, and wasn’t the only one he had.
I think it was just his combination HDTV and wall mirror (remember the mirror Ahnuld had in The Sixth Day? Great, under-rated movie, BTW) The reason his powers seemed to go away was obviously because he stopped concentrating on maintaining the stuff he had done in his momentary shock at the wanton destruction of his property.
Incidentally, there was a Peter David novel in which Trelane turns out to be a Q, the son of the Q we all know and love who was played by John DeLancie.
Trelane was mildly amusing, but I never liked Q. Infantile wish-fulfillment and crappy writing.
Q could be fun in his own way, but mind you his relative lack of maturity was one of the things that always had Picard annoyed at him. His plots got a bit sillier on Voyager, but I still smirk at the Q sex scene when it was decided that Q and his wife (girlfriend? I was never sure) Q should have a baby (named “Q”, I’m sure.).
Q and Q touch their index fingers together briefly
Janeway: “What, that’s it?”
And then Q (the “male” one) smirks at Janeway, “Sorry, you had your chance!” or words to that effect.
Probably one of the funnier sex scenes outside of Babylon 5.
Of course, anything on TV has canon precedence, and we know from Voyager that Q had only one son (up to then), fruit of the union recounted above. (And then Q gets a taste of his own medicine when he has to cope with being the father of a spoiled and all-powerful teenager. )
You know, until someone shows me evidence otherwise, I maintain that that kid was Trelane.
Indeed I do
Although there was another sex scene which was the source of some amusement, albeit only because someone commented on it later (we never saw the sex scene itself).
“… Wahoo?”
Trelane was the son of another Q in Q-Squared, but even if it were DeLancie’s Q, and that episode hadn’t happened, it wouldn’t have mattered so far as canon is concerned. If it’s not shown on film or screen, it’s just not canon. Even the Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization by Gene Roddenberry himself is non-canonical.
Actually, I think this comes closest to being true. The mansion was Trelayne’s playhouse, and like any good playhouse it was divided into different section. The harsichord, banquet room, etc. were all in trelayne’s human room. Behind the mirror was his gadget room.