Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7, Episode 19, "Q2"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Q2, Q drops by Voyager for a surprise visit, and he brings Q with him. No, not himself… the other Q. His son. This junior Q is every bit as powerful, unpredictable, and exasperating as his old man, with none of the charm (yet). When the Continuum threatens to de-Q him permanently, it's up to Aunt Kathy to teach Q some responsibility before he's stuck living as an amoeba or worse, a teenager. Mission Log wrangles Q, Q, and more Q in Q2.
Hosted by John Champion and Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:36.8 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on |
| 0:38.9 | Mission Log, we learn everything we can about humanity by examining an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:45.2 | looking for the morals, meanings, and messages, and asking if the whole thing stands the test of an |
| 0:50.2 | eternity, either as a human or as an amoeba. This week, Q2, the one where Q shows up, but he's got a surprise. |
| 1:00.7 | Q, or rather a younger cue, and it's up to Aunt Kathy to try and raise the boy right. |
| 1:07.9 | I'll be back with trivia in a moment, but first here's Norman to tell all of you how to reach us. We'd love to hear from you, right. I'll be back with trivia in a moment, but first, here's Norman to tell all of you how to reach us. |
| 1:13.5 | We'd love to hear from you. |
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| 1:48.6 | And now, here's John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:52.3 | Snap, no, this week's trivia. |
| 1:54.4 | Snap, no, this week's trivia. |
| 1:57.4 | Nicely done. |
| 1:58.2 | All right, Q2. |
| 1:59.0 | We have a story by Kenneth Miller, and you may not be surprised at all to learn that Ken pitched this story back in season four, because of course we had the Q and the Gray in season three with a teleplay that Ken had written. |
| 2:14.8 | So why wouldn't he want to write a sequel to his own story? Now, this time around |
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