It had been a mistake to give cats thumbs. Actually, it had been a mistake to give them a lot of things, thumbs just happened to top Mary’s list at the moment. With a disapproving growl she snatched the TV remote back from the paws of the ship’s cat. She ignored Tiger’s indignant rowl and put the remote back in the lockbox. Watching TV was fine, skipping channels every fifteen seconds because you were bored was not. Now if she could just distract Chip long enough to keep the Quan from telekinetically opening the box for its ‘little cousin’…