Was the idea originally a delusion caused by the Irumadic syndrome?
Or was the whole ordeal simply a setup by the Q and never actually real?
Was the idea originally a delusion caused by the Irumadic syndrome?
Or was the whole ordeal simply a setup by the Q and never actually real?
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Starfleet Command ordered Enterprise to investigate a spatial anomaly.
Then when he’s in the future timeline, he convinces his old friends to go and see what has happened to it in the years since. The anomaly is created by them in the future — this is the paradox. Picard wouldn’t have gone there in the future if the rift hadn’t been there in the past.
The rift is then being fed by all three Enterprises within the anomaly until Picard works out the details to disrupt it.
Edit: the Q Continuum probably gave Q the orders to create the anomaly, but his moving Picard thru time to save humankind is his act of defiance.