A
rebel Q escapes imprisonment from inside a comet and demands asylum aboard
the U.S.S. Voyager. Just as quickly, the well-known Q arrives to force the
escaped Q back to the Continuum, the extradimensional domain in which their
immortal kind exist. Meanwhile, the escaped Q proclaims that if Captain
Janeway grants him sanctuary, he intends to commit suicide to end the tedium
he has endured as an immortal being.
Noting
the dictates of Starfleet protocol, Janeway holds a hearing to consider
the request for asylum. The tables are turned on Q as Federation personal
preside over a trial in which he must defend the Q Continuum and the ever-logical
Tuvok acts as counsel for the escaped Q. A courtroom drama ensues when
Q calls himself to the witness stand along with a Sir Issac Newton, a
hippie named Maury, and including Commander Riker, whose lives were profoundly
changed by Q's influence.
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