Shotaro didn't like that there were kids wrapped up in this Q business. Not one bit. So he at least wanted to say hi. Even if he was terrible with children.

"Ah, yeah. The air feels nicer too." There was actually some circulating air underground. Philip probably had some kind of explanation for it but he was too distracted by all the computers upstairs to come underground. He didn't know what to expect from a hi-tech mine hundreds of years in the future, but hand pickaxes definitely wasn't it.