The Q and the Grey

This Story: Season 3 Episode 11 (production code 153)
VOY Overall: Episode 53
Trek Overall: Story 482, Episode 509
Airdate: 27 Nov 1996
Story by Shawn Piller
Teleplay by Kenneth Piller
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 18 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 12 (crew of 142).
• This episode is a sequel to “Death Wish“.
• The third “Q” episode directed by Cliff Bole – the others were “Hide and Q” and “QPid“.
• The female Q is played by Suzie Plakson, who is probably most famous to Trek fans as K’ehlyr (the mother of Worf’s son) from a couple of TNG episodes as well as Dr. Selar also from TNG.  She was also an Andorian in Star Trek: Enterprise.
• The title of this episode is apparently a reference to a Civil War era poem called “The Blue and the Gray“.
• The exterior scenes were filmed in Griffith Park – which is right next to the famed Griffith Observatory, which was recently seen in “Future’s End“.
• Thus episode states that Q’s do not reproduce, but this seems to be in conflict with the TNG episode “True Q” in which a seemingly human woman is revealed to have her parents both be Q.
• Q (our Q) refers to Neelix as “bar rodent”, a name I thought would be more relevant for Quark.

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