Sometimes I think about the fact that Picard was not only assimilated into the Borg Collective, but he also lived an entire other life with a wife and kids in what in reality amounted to less than half an hour, and also spent a prolonged time mind-melded with an emotionally and telepathically unstable Sarek. This dude has so much shit in his brain that isn’t actually from his own life. And he’s probably done a pretty good job integrating that, you know? Flute Life especially since he did in a way live it and it wasn’t really unpleasant or traumatic. But he’s got Borg shit in there and random stuff from Sarek in there too and I just think that at the very least he’s got to be having some weird as hell dreams.

Routine Vaccinations

I don’t usually cross-post my fics on here, but this one is short and sfw so I thought, why not! Read it on AO3 here.

Enjoy human!Q being a brat to hide the fact that everything is new and terrifying.

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Doctor Beverly Crusher was, on the whole, very used to unruly patients. The Enterprise was one of many ships which allowed crew to bring their immediate family on for the long voyages, and as a result, Beverly was just as comfortable conducting a pediatric checkup as she was treating a plasma burn. A wriggling, whining, petulant patient who doesn’t want a hypospray was nothing new to her.

Said patient being a grown adult who was recently an utter terror of an omnipotent being, however, was. And this one she can’t even bribe with candy.

I spent way too long making this but I couldn't stop thinking about it