#don’t tell the writers till later
If I had a nickle for every time I had a ship that was in hindsight canon for a good 12 years but never got complete confirmation because for one part it would have been a “cultural” no-go for half of the target audience and for another part the ship will absolutely not mention The Thing unless they are likely to die within minutes (that way we do get an one-sided verbal declaration); regardless, everybody they meet just assumes they belong together, including some of the writers; … then I would have two nickles. Which isn’t much, but weird that it happened twice.
P.s. they went fishing.
