Stardate 41590.5: While the Enterprise is en route to help a disaster-struck mining colony, Q appears and kidnaps the bridge crew except for Picard for a strange kind of war game. Q supplies Riker with the same superior abilities he has himself. Riker has to employ them when Worf and Wesley are killed in Q's battle scenario. However, when the Enterprise has finally arrived at the colony, Riker forgoes reviving a dead girl. Riker feels sorry about this decision. He wants to put his new abilities to good use and begins to fulfill the dreams of his fellow crew members, but he has to learn that this is not what they wanted. He finally decides to turn down the gift. A humiliated Q returns to the Continuum.

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