Summary[]

Log entries[]

• First officer's personal log, Supplemental

  I have decided to maintain our position in the hope that Captain Picard can outwit Q, as he's done in the past.
  But, I must admit, if only to myself, the possibility that the captain will finally run out of ways to deal with this super-being.
  And even if he does manage to outmaneuver his adversary once again... Will Q abide by the rules of whatever game he's invented? Or will he give in to a whim -- and make the captain pay the price?

References[]

Characters[]

Beverly Crusher • Wesley Crusher • Data • Guinan • Geordi La Forge • Lanza • Christine Picard • Claude Picard • Maurice Picard • Jean-Luc Picard • Q • William Riker • Deanna Troi • Worf • Yvonne

Referenced only

Julius Caesar • Adolf Hitler

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Enterprise-D (Galaxy-class explorer)

Locations[]

Czechoslovakia • Earth • Paris • Poland • Vulcan

Races and cultures[]

Andorian • android • Benzite • Betazoid • Gaul • Human • Klingon • Romulan

States and organizations[]

Gendarme • Q Continuum • Starfleet • Starfleet Academy • United Federation of Planets

Other references[]

compass • DNA • duck • fly • goat • rat • sailing

Appendices[]

Background[]

• Many aspects of this story bear similarity to the scenario of Star Trek: Picard season 2 in later canon: Q's presentation of a historical scenario and an alternate history where Earth is totalitarian and fascist, the depiction of Picard's family as a youth, and so on.
• This story, written before the TNG episode: "Family", establishes an alternate version of the Picard family, with different names than those later establishes, as well as a brother, Claude, who died as a child.
• John de Lancie is credited as the writer, with Michael Jan Friedman receiving an "additional dialogue by" credit.
• The Q fantasy portions of the story occur in 2332. No date is given for the present-day story, but the DC Comics Timeline gives a stardate of 43738.8.
• Lieutenant Worf is incorrectly pictured with Lieutenant Commander rank pips.
• This comic is collected in The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• The Gift was reprinted in seven parts in the UK Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine #16-22.
• The Gift was reprinted by IDW Publishing in March of 2021.

Images[]

Q appearing as the Marshal of France.

Connections[]

Timeline[]

External links[]

• The Gift (comic) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.