Reviewer: trekfan Signed [Report This]
Date: 30 May 2013 08:06 Title: Slipstream Jitters

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Captain Adele just makes me mad. I mean, Maren is sitting there staring at an awesomely designed engine (thanks, Maren) and Adele is criticizing her a few moments later because she’s shy. Man, come on captain, be a little nicer to the woman who got your ship slipstream. *sigh* But Adele’s observations about Maren are spot on when it comes to her engines and how she feels about it. A mixture of awe, wonder, and fear, Maren probably isn’t 100% sure that the entire thing won’t blow up in her face when it starts.

Knowing Maren, she’s probably thinking that would just be her luck. But Adele gets her to talk about that and the wall comes down. And then she brings up Icheb and Adele  finds Maren … apprehensive. Very apprehensive. I mean, after all that happened, I can’t blame her, but man Adele has no idea what she’s getting into here.

Which kinda surprises me considering that Adele has access to her files, everything she was with, and more … she has access to Icheb’s files and she has access to all the people that recommended Maren to her but Adele just kinda takes it at face value. Maybe she doesn’t have time to investigate things, I don’t know, but we have just another reason Adele bugs me.

But, there’s Maren here to make me happy.

Yay Maren. Well done.  

Author's Response:

This was the combination of a lot of stupid, small choices by a lot of different people adding up to one very large stupid decision.  Basically, everyone assumed everyone else knew or would bring up the Icheb/Maren situation, if needed, but no one wanted to be the one to actually do it.  At no point had either of their duties been compromised due to their relationship or breakup (that Starfleet knew of, at least), and since they broke up before they filed the paperwork announcing their impending marriage, there's nothing in the official record.  While they did briefly work together at Utopia Planitia, that was a huge project.  Lots of people worked on it.  So Adele went in blind, and no one took her aside to say, "Hey, you know those two used to be a thing, right?"  She had to unseal old disciplinary records to get more information about things that happened at the Academy after J.Q.'s little stunt in the beginning of Tesseract, and that's when she figured it out.  She's actually pretty pissed at Janeway for not saying anything, but at the same time ... it was really none of Starfleet's business, and she respects that.