It's a slow couple of weeks on the Enterprise-D: they were heading to an unexplored section of the quadrant and most of the work was simple preparations.

Just a few hours after the ship entered that section of unseen space captain Picard goes to his ready room, to sort out reports.

The moment the door hisses closed he freezes when he sees a person, that he has never seen before, sitting on the desk with crossed legs and a smirk.

The captain knows who's that: it's a Q, even if not the one the entire ship remembers.