MG> BN> Howsomever neither was it that they were actually lovers in the
MG> BN> carnal sense, IIRC (admittedly not having my "pilot" tape handy
MG> BN> right this red-hot nanosecond ).
MG> Well, yes, there was.  She says "You never bother me... except
MG> in the way I love to be bothered."  That sounded pretty physical
MG> to me.
Get your mind out of the gutter, you dirty young lady. 
Or it could just be one of those "word play" things among very dear
friends. ;)  I'd say they were serious about each other, agreed,
but don't forget that (some folks standards notwithstanding )
that by itself doesn't necessarily make it automatically follow that
they're what most people would call "lovers."
MG> BN> the enlightened (i.e., TNG/VOYAGER era) era that SF would be in
MG> BN> the habit of giving starship command to openly flagrant extra-
MG> BN> marital twerps, unless, of course, the intentions were the
MG> BN> proverbial honorable. };)
MG> Extra-marital indicates adultery, so you've lost me.
Not necessarily. };)  If you check a dictionary you'll see that
while it can mean adultery, in the strictest literal sense all it
really connotes is "outside of marriage," which can as well mean
"in the absence of wedlock." 
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