On 03-05-98 Bill Nichols wrote to Maureen Goldman... 
 
 MG> I watched that segment as well.  I don't see any indication of 
 MG> marriage plans.  Mark was her friend and lover.  Both had 
 MG> houses.  She had a pregnant dog. 
 
 MG> Nothing said that they wouldn't get married someday.  The 
 MG> subject wasn't addressed. 
 
 BN> Howsomever neither was it that they were actually lovers in the 
 BN> carnal sense, IIRC (admittedly not having my "pilot" tape handy 
 BN> right this red-hot nanosecond ). 
 Well, yes, there was.  She says "You never bother me... except 
 in the way I love to be bothered."  That sounded pretty physical 
 to me. 
 
 BN> I do however recall the 
 BN> interchange of "This is another one of those 'love me, love my 
 BN> dog' things, isn't it?" & the answer being yes, which sounded 
 BN> pretty much like the relationship two mature (as in the "middle 
 BN> aged-actually grown-up-&-having-some-actual-*sense*" sense ) 
 BN> people might well be assumed to have.  I also tend to doubt that in 
 BN> the enlightened (i.e., TNG/VOYAGER era) era that SF would be in 
 BN> the habit of giving starship command to openly flagrant extra- 
 BN> marital twerps, unless, of course, the intentions were the 
 BN> proverbial honorable. };) 
 
 Extra-marital indicates adultery, so you've lost me. 
 
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