Star Trek: Voyager Fulfilled Q’s TNG Promise, Not Picard’s Enterprise

It was Star Trek: Voyager that lived up to the promise made by Q (John de Lancie) to Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D, and not Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the TNG episode “Q Who”, which introduced the Borg Collective, Q challenged Picard’s small-minded view of the universe by catapulting the Enterprise into the unexplored Delta Quadrant. Q promised Picard that he was about to move into areas of the universe that contained incredible wonders, as well as “terrors to freeze your soul.” The second part of this prophecy certainly came true for Jean-Luc via his traumatic experiences with the Borg, which haunted him for decades.