Every family meal is memorable chez Q!

OOC: Crossposted from theatrical_muse today.
Prompt 314: Write about a memorable family meal.

Oh, you have no idea.

See, the Q don't eat. We consider it... gauche. Oh, we might choose to consume food like mortals do when we're in a mortal avatar (I'm rather partial to ice cream sundaes myself), but in our true forms, what we consume is energy... and frankly, there isn't enough of it in the mortal dimension to feed us. You cannot possibly imagine how many calories it burns just to manifest a *tiny* pocket dimension, let alone populate it with realistic-seeming life forms. Omnipotence is tremendously slimming.

So we get our energy directly from the Q Continuum. Except when we don't. We're *capable* of consuming stars, but if we went around doing that all the time there wouldn't be many stars left, so we tend to view eating as... well, rather gross. There are sexual connotations to it as well; drawing energy from another Q is one of the things we do for fun and games around here, so watching another Q consume energy has some rather unavoidable implications for us.

At this point in the story, I probably need to explain q.

( Imagine your baby sister canoodling with your teenage son. Or don't. You might need brain bleach afterward. )

Muse: Q
Fandom: Star Trek (TNG and VOY)
This prompt involves characters and environments created by Heather Jarman in "String Theory: Evolution", a Voyager novel published by Pocket Books.