Hide and Q
Q arrives on board the Enterprise dressed like a Starfleet admiral. He interferes with a rescue mission and takes Riker, Data, Geordie, Tasha, and Worf from the Enterprise. He wants them to play a game with him. Picard is left behind on the bridge of the Enterprise by himself.
Tasha is sent back to Enterprise by Q. Picard and Q wager as to how Riker will respond to the test that Q has devised for him. Worf scouts ahead and finds aliens dressed like Napoleonic troops. They follow him back to the others. Q makes himself look like Data (for no discernable reason) and then gives Riker the same powers that he possesses.
Q brings Picard, Wesley, and Tasha to the planet where the others currently are. He brings back the aliens in Napoleonic uniforms. They advance on the crew of the Enterprise. Worf attacks them and is killed. Wesley rushes in to help Worf and is also killed. Riker uses his new powers to transport them all back to the Enterprise and restore his dead comrades.
The Enterprise continues on its rescue mission without any further interruptions from Q. Riker promises to Picard that he won't use the powers that have been bestowed upon him. The away team, which includes Riker, beams down to the surface of the planet. They find some survivors among the wreckage of the mining colony but they also find the body of a dead girl. Riker stands by his promise to Picard and does not restore the dead girl to life. The away team returns and reports in. Everyone is somber over the death of the young girl.
Q picks that time to return and encourages Riker to use his powers to bestow gifts upon his friends. Riker, still sore over not being able to restore the young girl, takes Q's suggestion and runs with it. He makes Wesley 10 years older and much taller. He restores Geordi's eyesight to normal. He wants to make Data human but the android asks him not to do that. Riker honors that request. He creates a mate for Worf. Everyone expresses doubts about the gifts. Riker is left confused and decides that the gifts are a mistake. He puts everything back the way it was.
Picard declares that he has won the bet. Q reluctantly departs.
Thoughts
I think that I have seen this episode before but it was a long time ago, possibly when it first aired. I don't remember much about it except the scene where Wesley is suddenly ten years older.
Counselor Deanna Troi is not in this episode.
Doctor Crusher doesn't wear a com badge in this episode. I'm not sure why.
The scenery in the moments when the crew is on the planet (where they are attacked by aliens in Napoleonic uniforms) was very sparse.
This is a decent episode. On the whole I liked it even though it feels a little heavy handed. It also reminds me very much of the sort of episode that they might have had in the original series.
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