funnily enough, the book “Q Squared” astonishingly explained this off as a powerful being known as trelane, another OST character, was established as a member of the Q Continuum, but had explained why Gary got the powers that he did, was due in part by none other than our favorite member of the Q, Q him self, was responsible in part by the fateful encounter between Kirk and Mitchell, it duly mentioned said grave stone, Q was responsible by inhabiting Gary where Gary was able to harness Q and use Q’s powers facing off against Kirk, this was in fact due in part between an earlier fight between trelane and Q, this all happened in a very clever way, being in fact an alternate reality!😆 it was an amazing read

Mace would have destroyed ole’ palps, if Anikan had NOT intervened ani was already disappointed with the order anyway, but palpi had merely nudged him bit by bit, some of us nerds already sensed that anikan would have left the order if mace had killed palpatine, since in reality had gone against everything ani was taught as a Jedi, yes, in actuality ani did turn that moment striking mace and allowing palps his opening, mace could’ve done what yoda could not, it was mentioned in rots