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de Lancie, John

(1948-    ) US television actor in many roles since 1976, probably best known for playing Q in nine episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation between 1987 and 1994, a role at the centre of his Star Trek: The Next Generation Tie, Star Trek: The Next Generation: I, Q (1999) with Peter David. He also wrote a Post-Holocaust novel, Soldier of Light (1999) with Tom Cool, which traces a Near Future transformation of those humans who survive metamorphosis into the only beings capable of fighting an Alien entity which has housed itself for millennia within the planet. [JC]

John de Lancie

born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 20 March 1948

works

• Star Trek: The Next Generation: I, Q (New York: Pocket Books, 1999) with Peter David [tie to Star Trek: The Next Generation: hb/Keith Birdsong]
• Soldier of Light (New York: Pocket Books, 1999) with Tom Cool [hb/James Wang]

links

• John de Lancie
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 21:25 pm on 1 May 2026.
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