# Star Trek. Am I making up this moment with Q? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-am-i-making-up-this-moment-with-q/547414 "2010-07-21T01:46:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-am-i-making-up-this-moment-with-q/547414/21 "2010-07-22T01:51:52Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Evidentially you are remembering the novel “Q Squared.” Damn! I came in here to say that it either happened in the novelization of “All Good Things” or “Q Squared”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-am-i-making-up-this-moment-with-q/547414/22 "2010-07-22T03:45:54Z")
I actually have John de Lancie performing Q-Squared: the only audio I’ve ever purchased online form iTunes. It’s not that bad. Q is written perfectly in character (unlike certain Voyager episodes). And I’m a big fan of multiple universe stories, as well as stories that fix plotholes from the series. And, or course, de Lancie’s voice acting for the characters is superb. I at one point had an ebook of the novel itself, but I haven’t been able to find it. I know there are a few things in it not in de Lancie’s version–for one thing, the story is not written from Q’a perspective, but from a semi-omniscient narrator (which is why changing it to Q works so well). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-am-i-making-up-this-moment-with-q/547414/23 "2010-07-22T04:25:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > the story is not written from Q’a perspective. Sounds Buddhist. 😃 Anyway, another fun fact? The _original_ Mary Sue was actually from [a Star Trek fan story! From a fanzine in 1973.](http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/dark/1000/marysue.htm) But yeah, a number of the Star Trek novels _were_ pretty good. Diane Duane’s _Dark Mirror_, for one. The audiobook was even read by de Lancie, though Q wasn’t in the story. Really an eye-opener to the man’s acting talents—he was always good as Q, but now I regret that he was _only_ Q on the show. I used to go through those books like popcorn—I fell out of it around the time they started publishing less stand-alone novels and more multi-part crossover tie-in books. I had my limits. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-am-i-making-up-this-moment-with-q/547414/24 "2010-07-22T05:06:19Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Sounds Buddhist. 😃 > > Anyway, another fun fact? The _original_ Mary Sue was actually from [a Star Trek fan story! From a fanzine in 1973.](http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/dark/1000/marysue.htm) > > But yeah, a number of the Star Trek novels _were_ pretty good. Diane Duane’s _Dark Mirror_, for one. The audiobook was even read by de Lancie, though Q wasn’t in the story. Really an eye-opener to the man’s acting talents—he was always good as Q, but now I regret that he was _only_ Q on the show. > > I used to go through those books like popcorn—I fell out of it around the time they started publishing less stand-alone novels and more multi-part crossover tie-in books. I had my limits. ☹ I fell out when I discovered well written fanfiction–[even a series that fixed Voyager’s crappy ending](http://vv8.jetc.org/). (Yes, I am a fan, although I still see the flaws. It being Star Trek was sufficient.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-am-i-making-up-this-moment-with-q/547414.md?page=1)