"Doctor Pierce!", called Worf. "I have a question. It is of a personal nature."

One of two people to survive the very earliest experiments by the scientists who later brought about the Eugenics Wars, the 400-plus surgeon nodded.

"Well, Worf. Some questions are highly personal, while some persons are highly questionable. Shoot."

"Uhhh...yes. It concerns your 20th Century step-brother-in-law, a man named Darrin Stephens."

Pierce remembered him well.

"Or as Mom and I liked to call him, Derwood. As opposed to Der Bingle."

"Why were you opposed to Bing Crosby? He was always Tasha's favorite..."

"Worf? Question?"

"Ah. Yes. Well. I saw Stephens at your 1965 wedding. I then had occasion to see a photo of him from files sent by the USS Voyager, during a 1971 temporal incursion. Doctor--they do not appear to be of the same man."

Pierce shrugged.

"He was secretly a Gallifreyan Time Lord?"

Worf's scowl unnerved Pierce, despite his enhancements.

"I am quite serious."

Hawkeye struggled to explain.

"It was...something to do with all the magic that got tossed around, in that house. Sam, Endora, Peg, Erin...none of them ever wanted to talk about it."

Worf winced.

"Please do not tell me that means what I think it means."

Pierce nodded.

"It just isn't something they discuss with outsiders."