<P> Q - Squared (full title Star Trek: The Next Generation--Q - Squared) is a non-canon Star Trek novel by Peter David . It spent two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1994 . </P> <P> Q - Squared was released in July 1994 as one in a series of "Giant Novels" for the Star Trek line from Pocket Books . Although the novel was primarily based on and around the characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation, this book was particularly notable for bringing together the characters of Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Trelane from Star Trek: The Original Series . </P> <P> Trelane, who first appeared in the original Star Trek episode "The Squire of Gothos", is revealed to be a member of the Q Continuum . He taps into the power of the continuum and uses this ability to tamper with time and reality, resulting in the intersection of three different parallel universes which are also referred to as time "tracks ." Track A is a universe in which Beverly Crusher's husband Jack never died, and now serves as captain of the Enterprise with Jean - Luc Picard as his first officer; in this universe, Jack's son Wesley died as a boy and Jack and Beverly divorced . Track B is the traditional universe depicted on Star Trek: The Next Generation . Track C is akin to the more militaristic alternate universe shown in the Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", in which the Federation is at war with the Klingons . </P> <P> Q, who had been charged with the task of "mentoring" Trelane (a task each "adult" Q must accept at least once for an "adolescent" Q), enlists the aid of Picard and the crew of the Enterprise - D in the three different timelines in order to teach Trelane discipline, and eventually, to stop him from destroying the fabric of the universe by collapsing the alternate universes together . </P>

Is trelane a member of the q continuum