"No, Number One," Picard says, holding out his hand. He's even smiling as he says it. Ah, yes, that is very much like Q, to turn the argument around on them. Call Starfleet the villains, so that he may impress them with his elaborate plans. "As a matter of fact, we are on an important mission delivering supplies and relief crew to a planet in sore need of them."

It is, perhaps, an overstatement.