Once the plague wiped out her village, she discovered that not only had she survived, she had somehow mutated; she no longer carried the gene for aging, she was immune to disease, and her body could recover tissue damage at roughly 700% of normal based on Dr. Sinclair's estimates.

She had speculated that Titan's machine biosphere might have originated from a similar scheme set up by an alien civilization, possibly millions of years previously, which had somehow mutated and started to evolve.

Could TB have somehow mutated to become a venereal disease?

She never had understood how something that smelled as nice as coffee could taste so foul, and she wondered yet again if perhaps Manticoran coffee trees hadn't mutated somehow in their new environment.

She mentioned especially one long-known song about seagulls, which had become a sad love song; the words had somehow mutated from a refrain based on the cries of the gulls to the sad sound of wind in the trees, and the cries of birds of prey.

But this time, it seemed, Q had done more than merely transform himself into the fantastical, hydra-headed creature; he had somehow mutated Picard as well.