"It didn't last long, but I distinctly remember having to teach him about backaches and hunger pangs," she says disdainfully, pointedly leaving out the whys and hows of it. Q had also needed to learn about the benefits of being human, the emotions and charity that came with humanity. He had, in the end, proven himself to be... decent for a short time. Anything else? Beverly is content to consider him a nuisance at best, an adversary at worst.

"It was an interesting time I wouldn't mind repeating."