#partly because if the captain's distracted by Q then he's significantly less grumpy

[azrael08]

I imagine that Q's visits to the enterprise become so common that after a while the crew just gets used to him appearing for non-malicious purposes. If you happen to walk into ten forward and see the captain arguing with Q then you just know not to question or interrupt them, it’s just a lovers quarrel.

I can just picture some transfer ensign aboard the enterprise walking with a few other ensigns down the hall and they see the captain with Q by his side talking and Q does something with his powers and the transfer ensign being like "😯 i-ist that Q!? Why's he here!? Hasn't he been a massive fucking danger to the ship in the past??? Why are we not on red alert rn!????" and all the other ensigns are like "chill, he's just on a date with his boyfriend😊"