“Most incredible thing I ever did as a young Marine,” her father said gruffly. “I flew the secondary helo for two different Apollo recoveries, including that one right there,” as if she didn’t know he’d flown for that splashdown. Why else did they always meet here? “Got to watch the whole show from two hundred feet. Would have liked to have shaken their hands, but it was back when we still tucked them straight into isolation trailers for fear of them bringing back some space disease. Of course they had to get their camera moment crossing from the helo to the trailer, so it was a darned useless to-do but it played well on the media. Don’t ever let the media control your decisions, Sienna. You hear me?”
“Sure, Pop. I know that.”
As to her reason for smiling—her own crush on Jean Luc Picard
