I know what you're thinking. You're looking at the calendar and saying that this guy's high as a kite. Well, it isn't so. I'm sober as a judge, and I have evidence. Well, I have strong conjecture, but this is science fiction, so strong conjecture is just as good as evidence.

Yes, Star Trek is the future of the universe in which Days of our Lives is the present. It all hinges on a guy named Eugene.

On Days of our Lives, back in the eighties, there was a character named Eugene Bradford, who was a bit of a mad scientist. There were all sorts of weird sci-fi/fantasy plot lines surrounding his character, like magical Haitian talismans, mysterious prisms that could cure cancer, and other weirdness. He was on the show for several years, and when it came time for his character to depart the show, he wasn't killed off like so many other characters. He left in a time machine he had built. In the 1980s. He later came back with a synth replica of his wife for a while, but eventually left again in his time machine.

"That's all well and good," I can hear you saying, "But what does all of that have to do with Star Trek?" This is where things should start to become clear.

This is Eugene Bradford:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/daysofourlives/images/3/3c/Eugene_Bradford.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140213002539

Yep. That's right. Played by John De Lancie. You know him better as Q.

We already know that a member of the Q continuum can bestow the powers of the Q upon humans, from the TNG episode "Hide and Q." We also know that people who seem human can actually be members of the Continuum, even without knowing it, as in the TNG episode "True Q." We also know that Q- our Q (let's call him Qgene for clarity's sake), isn't quite like other members of the continuum. He is, for one thing, overly fascinated by humanity. He is also extremely melodramatic for such a supposedly advanced being- just the sort of behavior you would expect from a being whose origins are from a Soap Opera.

Here's what I think happened- Qgene, after he left earth, obviously traveled into the future, where among other things, he discovered Doctor Soong's perfected synth technology. Either he was a Q all along, like Amanda Rogers, or the continuum took notice of a human from the 1980s who was intelligent enough to build a working time machine when his species was still 80 years from being warp capable. Either way, this soap opera weirdo became one of the most powerful beings in the universe.