Who are the most powerful beings in the Star Trek universe?

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1- Q/The Continuum?
2- Trelane's parents?

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These two are spiritually the same. TNG (and, to be fair, a lot of the new shows paid some sort of tribute to the old - often, repeatedly - and why not? TOS was fantastically ahead of its time and, perhaps THE classic example of a show that was "too good" for television) - recycled the Squire of Gothos basics in making Q in the first place. A childlike being, with a childlike sense of morality, but with Godlike powers. Star Trek was riffing on itself with Trelane as it is - as Charlie X explored similar themes very early in the first season.

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3- Metrons?

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Always assumed that those folks had a geographical limit (as can the effect by Trelane's parents) or range - a range not imposed on the continuum. At any rate, they chose not to interfere - almost the opposite of Q's personal philsophy.

For that matter, the folks from Talos IV were pretty power for corporeal beings.

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5- The Traveler?

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Immensely powerful, but also with lots of limitations and brackets around that power.

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4- The beings who gave Barkley his powers?

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I don't think we know enough about the Cytherians - I would put them on the scale of the Vorlons in Babylon 5, but not quite Q-level.

It's going to be the continuum - because the only real limits noted on their powers were self-imposed.

"The old guy whose wife and planet were killed/destroyed in an attack. He created his house complete with wife and tried to scare the enterprise away with a bigger badder starship. All from the comfort of his living room"

I was thinking this one also. That was some good acting at the ending scene.

Organians deserve a mention.

Q considering there were many Q not just one or two.

How about Kevin? What was he?

The Tribbles

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The scene where he reveals to Picard what he did is one of my favorite TNG scenes.

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That was Kevin. With one thought, he blinked an entire race of 50 billion out of existence. That's pretty powerful. I don't believe they ever established what he was or referred to him ever again.

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The old guy whose wife and planet were killed/destroyed in an attack. He created his house complete with wife and tried to scare the enterprise away with a bigger badder starship.

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That's who I thought of immediately.

Could the Q do such a thing? They had to resort to a tornado to kill another Q.

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William Campbell as Trelane

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Dang. At first glace I had assumed that was a young Liberace playing Trelane.

I agree though, there was some very strong acting in these episodes.

Hum...

It is hard not to say that the Q is the most powerful. He/they have the ability to travel through time, extinguish entire species, and grant their power to whomever they desire. But I like to think that they are restricted, at least somewhat, by the desires of the Continuum.

The Daug (?) that erased an entire civilization by just hating them seems to be pretty much all powerful. He said that his powers extend to all corners of the galaxy. Also had the power to create life (his wife) and give that life independent thought - that's going to be pretty hard to beat. He appeared to have no restrictions on his power and no one to answer to (unlike Q).

Then there was that being that trapped the Enterprise-D in the "empty space" bubble. He killed a member of the bridge crew just to see what would happen and threatened to do the same with 1/3 or 1/2 of Picard's crew. It wasn't really explained the limits of his power.

There was also those people from another galaxy (early TNG episode) that pulled the Enterprise to their home to learn from them and then just sent them back. To my best recollection that was the farthest anything in the Star Trek universe ever traveled.

Though the Traveler seemed to be immortal and had an ability to somewhat manipulate space/time, that was about the limits to his powers.

Guinan I wouldn't consider powerful, but she certainly appeared to have a nearly-eternal life span. Also had a sense that transcended space-time and into multiple universes.



But I'd say by far the single most powerful being in the entire Star Trek universe,
from the original series,
to the movies,
to TNG,
to TNG movies,
to DS9,
to the new movies...
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the single most power character,
and it's not even close...
was ...
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Wesley Crusher.
No one else could make me instantly hate an episode with such vitriol and definiteness as he could. He only had to appear on the screen and I just knew he was going to annoy the shite out of me for the entire hour.