Previously, Wolfe had written the fun (if overly basic) TNG episode “A Fistful of Datas.” This demonstrated his Trek experience, but he wrote “Q-Less” before he was offered the full-time job on the new spinoff.
While he didn’t go so far as to call his Q-centric adventure the worst DS9 episode, Wolfe later said he focused too much on Q and not enough on the main characters. He also criticized the infamous boxing scene where Sisko bellows, “I’m not Picard,” noting that simply illustrating that the new character is different from the Enterprise captain doesn’t do enough to tell us who Sisko really is.
