"How you came to be here seems to have very little to do with how this ship operates. There is a being called Q who uses some sort of science I have never seen before. He doesn't stay around long enough to be studied," she said, mourfully. "But all of us were somewhere else one moment, then somewhere here on the ship. The technology here is fascinating, however, and most of the people are quite nice!"
Posting from my iPad, please excuse errors and brevity.