Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Commander Riker, it's too soon for this.

Q first became interested in him at Farpoint.

Which, of course, requires something totally disastrous if you were to lose.

All the galaxy's a stage.

Destructive to discipline, they say.

Haven't you seen how much I regretted not saving that child?

that space and time are simpler than the human equation.

He must still be on the planet.

Let us do no such damned thing.

to help some suffering and dying humans who--

After Farpoint, I returned to where we exist, the Q Continuum.

And a marshal outranks even an admiral.

You're only human.

But this is a subject far out of my experience,

This is the dressing for a game that we will play.

at Farpoint, we saw you as savages only.

If Q is anything, he's imaginative.

What about my people?

Think fast, Commander Riker, and move fast.

Drink not with thine enemy.

When this rescue is completed, I am prepared to listen carefully

Captain, I'm picking up a force field out there of some kind. It's almost...

Then we can throw away the visor?

Perhaps you'll share the joke with me?

Sir, over there.

However intriguing that may be, Q,

And that angered you, did it? “Seized my vessel, seized my vessel."

This is from Europe's Napoleonic era, sir.

but I'm in a penalty box.

Oh, you know that one.

And so it became that.

is why is Commander Riker missing?

There is no way I could harm any of you.

Q's penalty box.

Quite right, so you should.

Security, this is the captain.

Ah. The redoubtable Commander Riker, whom I noticed before.

Well, he's got us there, captain.