Lt. Commander works for Laura, she always wanted to have more stripes than scars.... and it makes sense to me.<br/><br/>I could see some conflict there, yes. "You ordered me to kiss you Ma'am, I feel compelled to follow orders..." ;) It could also be a rather interesting storythread for them if they remain... close.<br/><br/>"Hey Doc... what's this slick stuff on the bottom of my boot? I was walking on the 6th sub level, and it's a layer all over the floor about an 1/8th inch thick... oil/ Really? wow..."<br/><br/>I suppose that we could use a chaplin of some kind, but it may be counter productive if you want a good gene pool... BTW, I saw a NASA research paper on the net once that theorized that the minimum number of couples to make a viable, perminent colony on a planet is 150 couples. You can do it with as few as 70 couples, but you hit the inbreeding thing after about 15 generations. The numbers may be off as it's been years since I saw it... anyone ever see the Time Magazine issue about terraforming Mars? It was back in the late 1980's. We had the tools, but no way to get them to mars... it would take about 150 years.