"I prefer the occasional satisfaction of beating something to a pulp physically," she shrugs. "Otherwise, yeah, from what I've seen a phaser sounds great. It's like a gun but without the nasty side-effect of leaving a hole in you the size of a softball."

She finds that funny. Interesting, because people are sometimes no less dead, but funny. It's the best of both worlds, taser and firearm, without the need for wires or gut-chilling lack of mercy. "So I take it you know of this Q, then."