| Amanda Rogers | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Species: | Human, Q |
| Born: | 2351 |
| Mother: | Q (Human name unknown) |
| Father: | Q (Human name unknown) |
| Actor: | Olivia d'Abo |
Amanda Rogers was born on 2351 in Topeka, Kansas, in Earth's North American continent.
Her parents were two Q who assumed Human form to live on Earth. They died in a tornado accident. Afterwards Amanda was raised by adoptive parents, two Starfleet marine biologists.
Her academic accomplishments resulted in a degree in neurobiology, plasma dynamics, and eco-regeneration (with honors). She was accepted at Starfleet Academy and selected out of hundreds of applicants for an internship on the USS Enterprise-D.
In 2369, she traveled to Starbase 112 where she transferred to the Enterprise to begin her internship. Doctor Beverly Crusher acted as her mentor, and arranged for her to be able to work in all the major departments.
Shortly after her arrival on the Enterprise, a series of inexplicable events occurred. The first was the sudden appearance of a litter of puppies in Amanda's quarters (shortly after Amanda had spoken to Commander Riker about her three dogs, or "zoo" as her parents called it). With a simple thought, Amanda made the puppies disappear again.
Two other strange events took place. In a shuttlebay, Amanda had to intervene to prevent a container from falling on Commander Riker. When Geordi La Forge gave Amanda a tour of Main Engineering, the warp core temperature increased so much that it resulted in a warp core breach and while the breach was in progress, Amanda managed to stop it.
When Captain Picard discussed the event with his senior officers, Q appeared. He told them that he was responsible for the warp core breach to test if Amanda was fully Q; he told Picard that her parents were not real Humans but Q who had died in an accident.
Picard, suspicious about the accident, told Data to investigate the deaths of Amanda's biological parents. It seemed that the circumstances were very rare; a tornado escaped the weather modification network and landed right on Amanda's house with a force which was inconsistent with the size of the tornado. Picard confronted Q with these facts, and Q acknowledged that Amanda's parents had been executed by the Continuum. If Amanda was not fully Q, she would be executed too, but if she was, he would take her back to the Continuum.
While talking to Picard, Q gave Amanda a choice: she could return with him to the Continuum, or she could refrain from using her Q powers. When Amanda chose the latter, the Enterprise received a distress call from Commander Riker, who was organizing the Enterprise's relief mission on Tagra IV. A reactor was overloading, threatening thousands of people (Q said it was not his doing). When La Forge told them that he could not fix the problem and meltdown was imminent, the problem seemed to resolve itself. Even the planet's atmospheric contaminations and ecosystems were restored to their natural state.
Amanda could not let all those people die, so she used her Q powers. Acknowledging that she was Q, Amanda asked Dr. Crusher if she might come back one day to see her and then left the Enterprise with Q. (TNG: "True Q")
Background
Amanda Rogers was played by actress Olivia d'Abo.
Amanda is no longer the only child of any Q known; in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Q and the Grey", Q conceived a child with a female Q who became known as Junior.
Apocrypha
During the Q Crisis, the female Q told Doctor Crusher that Amanda Rogers didn't 'count' as a true child of the Q as she was conceived in a purely Human fashion, whereas 'Junior' was conceived in the Q Continuum itself.