"That they are, Lieutenant Prentice," he says. "To be precise, they're a race of some kind of omnipotent beings, who possess the abilities of instantaneous matter-energy transformation and teleportation. And one of them has taken a liking to our captain."

It's possible this is much worse than it sounds. Captain Picard, for one, isn't happy about the relationship. "It seems this Q is the cause of the disruption in Ten Forward, and that's not all."