Okay, small problem, as written - Robert April in the scenelet is a man, April Roberts my cousin is a woman. Lack of family gossip to the contrary strongly suggests she's a straight woman, whatever the AAF's stance on such things may be. The crushy feelingsan easily be switched over to a First Officer guy, however, with little practical difference. Trekkie genre conventions and the usual bad possibilities of workplace romance are all that stand between giving it a shot, however - Miranda is a civilian ship despite the Starfleet trappings and has no 'ironclad regs' as such.
- CD
ETA: If she graduated at the end of the Fall-Winter'07 term, she may well have been doing design work for the Miranda as a capstone course, or even in on it from the beginnings - I did say it was a collaboration between SETI, the Trekkies, and "several colleges" after all. Knowing the systems from initial bistro-napkin sketches and having built a fair number of them herself would go a long way to getting that Chief Engineer pin.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
- CD
ETA: If she graduated at the end of the Fall-Winter'07 term, she may well have been doing design work for the Miranda as a capstone course, or even in on it from the beginnings - I did say it was a collaboration between SETI, the Trekkies, and "several colleges" after all. Knowing the systems from initial bistro-napkin sketches and having built a fair number of them herself would go a long way to getting that Chief Engineer pin.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
"In the futuristic taco bell of the year 20XX, justice wears an aluminum sombrero!"hemlock-martini
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows