With Q returning to Star Trek: Picard, pop culture has a second chance to affiliate his namesake with something enjoyable, rather than a disturbing conspiracy about Satanic pedophiles.
Star Trek actor John de Lancie actor was asked in an interview with Variety his thoughts about how the rise of QAnon in U.S. politics superseded his omnipotent character as the more widely known Q media figure. “I’m really grateful for that character that I played — and I have become protective of that, of what Q means and all that,” de Lancie responded.
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“Certainly with this other thing, I’ve chosen not to dumpster dive into it,” de Lancie continued. “I don’t want to bring those two elements together in any way whatsoever. There’s a part of Q that I’m playing that is frankly more real and more positive and more life-affirming than the [pause] ridiculousness that I hear about this other stuff.”
Originating in 2017 through 4chan channels, QAnon has since grown into a sprawling extremist far-right cult guided by the online messages of an unknown figure known as “Q,” whose name derives from their supposed Q-level security clearance.
The cult predominantly believes that America is secretly run by a cabal of Devil-worshiping, cannibalistic sex traffickers who collect ‘Adrenochrome’ from the blood of children and have high-ranking positions in Congress and Hollywood, all of whom would supposedly be exposed and arrested by Donald Trump at a designated date and time during his Presidency.
Star Trek‘s Q first debuted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation premiere episode “Encounter at Farpoint” as a representative of the godlike Q Continuum who sought to judge humanity for its past historical crimes. Since then, de Lancie has played Q across eight Next Generation episodes, including the series finale “All Good Things…,” serving as a trickster-like guide to Jean-Luc Picard and the USS Enterprise during key missions or discoveries. He also made one appearance in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and three in Star Trek: Voyager, most recently voicing Q during a brief appearance in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode “Veritas.”
Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Harry Treadaway. The first season is available on Paramount+.
Source: Variety
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