While
the Voyager crew witnesses several rare supernova explosions, Q arrives
in the Captain's quarters to implore the outraged Janeway to conceive his
child. Citing his loneliness and need for stability, Q offers that their
offspring would combine the omnipotent power of his species with the feelings
and emotions of the human race. Q is daunted and continues his pursuit of
the uninterested Janeway just as a jealous female
Q pops up to bring Q back to the Continuum. While Voyager is deluged by
shock waves from the supernovas, Q escapes to the Continuum with Janeway
in tow, leaving the female Q bereft of her unlimited powers aboard a stranded
Voyager. There, Janeway discovers the true reason Q is desperate to procreate,
for the continuation of the Q race. As a result of Q's work, the Q Continuum
is colorfully represented forJaneway as the ante-bellum south, circa 1861.
The Starfleet
Captain finds herself dressed as a southern belle, fortified inside an elegant
manor house amidst the Continuum's civil war. Not only does Janeway see
that Q can be physically injured, she realizes that mating among the Q is
unprecedented and that the fulfillment of Q's plan, to have a baby, is the
only way to avert the destruction of the Continuum. |