...2374...

...April 5th....

"So why is he being so evasive?" La Forge asked. "I don't get it, Captain. If a guy needs help he would naturally come for it."

"Perhaps he has his own agenda," Jean Luc said.

Yes, I do, very much.

"Maybe he doesn't want help," Deanna said. "I sensed...Anger...From this entity. I feel he poses no threat to the Enterprise...But he lost....In existence, out of time and place." She put her hands on the table. "I get a feeling we are not suppose to help at all."

Correct, counselor Troi!

"Can it be possible that this is Commander Quarty, La Forge?" Jean Luc asked.

"Very possible," La Forge said. "He is stuck in some...Place. Far from our understanding."

"Captain," Data said. "I believe the location you had told me to sought out is named Q plane of souls. Not 'Plane of souls, Q' as you thought it would be."

Jean Luc is perplexed.

"Q?" Jean Luc said.

"Yes, Q," Data said. "I have been inputting the possibilities that Q is a entity or a race with it's own hell, heaven, and in-between realm."

"But Commander Quarty is stuck here," Worf said. "Right?"

"Sort of," La Forge said.

"What do you mean by sort of?" Jean Luc asked.

"Half in this world, and half in their world," La Forge said. "I think we were suppose to forget Commander Quarty's connection to the letter Q."

"But why?" Jean Luc asked.

"Because...." La Forge paused. "This may be far fetched...But...He is Q."

"Why would he be named after a race?" Jean Luc asked.

"I dunno," La Forge said. "But it is a good question."

Jean Luc sighed.

"This is proceedingly difficult to retrieve Commander Quarty," Picard said.

"I have an idea," Data said.

Everyone faced Data.

"What is it?" Jean Luc asked.

"We'll have to forget, and then remember, again," Data said. "Just enough information to retrieve Commander Quarty from where he is stuck."

"Stuck between worlds," Jean Luc said, leaning into the seat.

Now, they are on a rescue mission.

I stare at Jean Luc.

I imagine myself sitting in a chair alongside Jean Luc to his ear level and say, 'Don't,'. If only that could happen. If they did that stunt...Who knows what would happen. They don't know which way to go or where to go for that matter to find this in-between realm theory. La Forge and Data explained to Jean Luc how they figured out I am in a different world somewhat.

I was far impressed they had some machine to Spot the second that could identify where the source of the touching is coming from.

Keyword: Where.

"There's a unusual abnormality forming just a two days trip," Data said. "We can modify the engines to a certain level that the realm can withstand."

Jean Luc rubbed his great chin.

"No," Jean Luc said. "I will make the trip."

"Captain," Riker said. "You might not come back, alive."

"I am well aware of that, number one," Jean Luc said.

"If you are going, then I will go too," Data said. "Someone has to make sure systems are functioning correctly and type at the speed of light."

Awww, that is so touching.

"All right," Jean Luc said. "Make it so. Get close to the abnormality and we're on a search for Quarty."

"Correction; Search for Q," Data said. "He may be a godly entity."

"What makes you think that?" Jean Luc asked.

"I don't know," Data said. "I have a faint memory of a past event that never happened."

Jean Luc stood up.

"This meeting is adjourned," Jean Luc said.