tv is bad for you

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Picard was sitting, watching television.

To be precise, he was watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He remembered the Farpoint mission, remembered Q and his 'trial for humanity'. He only grew more sullen when he switched it ahead many episodes to First Contact with the Borg. He watched as a model of the Enterprise was bombarded with weapons fire, glaring when an actor dressed as him came on screen, pleading with Q to help him.

"It's entertainment to them," he said, his voice flat. "It's just entertainment to them."

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"It's a date," Picard replied, chuckling. "I have some duties of my own to attend to. Luckily, I can do them from this." He raised the PADD as he said that, indicating his obsessive compulsive obligation to log their first misadventure.

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"I'll have Chief report on all our loose ends, captain," she says, looking faintly surprised, that she walked in to yell at him and walked out with a dinner invite, but as she leaves, she doesn't look displeased with this, at all.