Don't worry,
Thot--no topic here is above a little necromancy!
BTW I like your screen name--is it a reference to the Egyptian god of the moon and wisdom?
In reference to Natalie, my personal take is this: she's *from* Florida, but he didn't necessarily meet her *in* Florida. My BFF and I were having an
Enterprise mini marathon the other week, and we started at the beginning and made it from "Broken Bow" through "Terra Nova." In one of those episodes, Trip made mention of how many years he'd been in Starfleet, so doing a little quick math while watching I remember thinking "Ah, he's been in since he was 17." So it seems likely he left for San Francisco not long after he graduated from high school--either went straight there, or had one last summer blast before going. He probably met her in Starfleet, either in San Francisco or while training somewhere else, and they hit it off upon finding out that both of them were from Florida--as we learned in psychology, human nature is to perceive the "familiar" as more attractive, even if the unfamiliar is more aesthetically pleasing, so meeting someone from your neck of the woods generally tends to make you want to get to know them more when you don't have that in common with other people around you. She may have been in Starfleet, or she may have been a civilian just living nearby, having moved from Florida for any of a number of reasons.
The other thing this reference did was settle in my mind the question of Trip's education--or lack of it--that *the_abomination* raised, which we discussed in another thread. Which...I'm gonna try to go find that instead of blowing this one all off topic...
Honestly I kind of thought of her as someone who worked in the "private sector" who tried to poach Trip and got a boyfriend instead.
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