Based on the latest trailers for the new Loki show there’s a whole lot of convoluted temporal chicanery and branching timelines, so the “correct” sequence of events in Loki’s past really is anyone’s guess.
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Maybe the new Loki show will finally cover the story of that time that Loki turned himself into a sexy mare as part of a plot to help Asgard cheat a contractor and ended up giving birth to the eight-legged horse seen briefly in the first Thor movie.
KInd of weird that the kid has to lug his grandpa around like that but that’s Asgard for you.
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The only episodes more tedious than Q are the parallel universe episodes.
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I always enjoyed the Ollie North reference in that clip. They don’t outright say it’s him, but the Iran-Contra hearings were fresh in everyone’s minds at the time.
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Oh dear, I see someone isn’t feeling very merry.
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Personally, I must confess that the very last episode of Star Trek I ever watched – in any incarnation – was the first appearance of Q.
Total shark-jump.
Or, as Monty Python’s major might say: “It just got silly!”
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You’re saying the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation was sillier than the original series?
Did you even watch the original series?
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I did watch. When I was four.
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Well…I don’t think I’ve seen that first episode of Trek II since it aired, but as I recall, it isn’t really one of their best.
ETA: Nothing against De Lancie or Q, but the character’s appearances (and the series in general) got better later.
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Like many shows it took a little while for TNG to really find their footing. “Encounter at Farpoint” still wasn’t any sillier than the original series though. If the idea of the Enterprise encountering a godlike alien being ready to judge humanity seemed too far-fetched then you probably weren’t a big Star Trek fan to begin with.
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You’re making an assumption about my problems with the episode. It’s not that it was far-fetched. It’s that they had already done quite similar things before in the original series more than a few times and it was a rather portentous series opener.
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I was responding to @BrittPonset 's suggestion that the first appearance of Q is when Star Trek “got silly.” I do agree the show got better over the first couple of seasons as the writers found their own groove instead of aping the formula of the original series.
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“He [Q] is kind of a dick.” – my husband
“Wild card” is just PC for dick-ish. 
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Risa or Borg cube; not a lot of grey area
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Definitely a dick. But recall in “All Good Things” he turns out to be the dick who gave humanity a chance of survival against the judgement of the rest of the collective. So, like Loki, he’s a trickster god who can occasionally be a problematic ally as well as a threat.
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It certainly got less silly. A lot less. But let us never forget that Dr. Crusher did it with a ghost during the final season.
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One of my favorite parts of the show was the scene from “Little Rascals” when Captain Picard, trapped in a prepubescent body due to a transporter malfunction, has to convince a Ferengi guard to let him see his “father” (Commander Riker) by staging a temper tantrum.
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I always held out hope that Q would show up on the Enterprise with a pet penguin… or perhaps Q show up in Salem for an episode or two. He’ll always be Eugene to me (days of our lives).
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