Q sighed, wishing he'd said nothing.

"I recovered a fraction of an erased memory," he explained. "It wasn't a glitch so much as unreadable data. I'm fine, it's less an error, more an ongoing process I've been attempting. It's running in the background, but when I'm not doing anything important I allow it to be my system's main function. I didn't consider the fact that it would attempt to play things as it recovered them."