An obnoxious teenage boy suddenly appears in Janeway’s quarters; soon after, Q appears to explain it is his son. His behavioral problems are causing trouble in the continuum, and Q’s choice is to leave Q2 on Voyager to learn some of life’s lessons. When Q2 puts Voyager into a fatal battle with Borg ships, Q returns and takes away his powers, threatening him with eternal life as an amoeba if he doesn’t straighten up within a week. At first, Q2 cheats on all tests and shows no respect, But when Janeway threatens to give up on him, he begins to respond. However, when Q returns early and is not impressed with Q2’s progress, Q2 loses his ambition and instead steals the Delta Flyer, taking Icheb with him. When Icheb is fatally injured in a battle with an alien ship, Q2 must face the aliens and beg for help to save him. He offers his own life in return for saving Icheb’s life. Surprise! The alien is Q, performing a test, and with this test as evidence, and an agreement to stay with Q2 as a guardian, Q2 is accepted back into the continuum.
Like many of the season seven episodes, this feels like a remake of an earlier episode, with Q2 playing a similar part as Q did in an episode where he lost his powers. I also did not like the way Q2 bounced back and forth between sincere and uncaring – it felt like the typical television template.
Nits: Q2 disdains piloting the shuttle, but knew how to use deflector dish technology to create a ‘wormhole’. Wouldn’t the logs of the Delta Flyer record how he did this, and enable to crew to duplicate this and return home immediately? There could have been many other ways to write the script without adding this nit.
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