Star Trek: The Next Generation
Echoes by Ke Roth
Lt. Andile, Starfleet's oldest and shortest engineer, comes aboard to help oversee the implementation of her newest engine design.
R - Picard/Crusher, Data/OFC - WIP
Whoa. Over 180 chapters and still going stong. Lt. Andile is an original character, richly detailed and definitely not a Mary Sue. Great plot, strong characterization. Set aside a few days to read it; it's an epic.
"Oh, and Commander...?"
He turned, surprised by the sudden lightness in her voice.. "Yes, Lieutenant?" he said.
"Nice perfume," she said.
He stared for a second - then broke into a grin. So that was how she had recognized me, he thought, grateful once again for a logical explanation for what often appeared to be prescience from the woman.
That hadn't been the case this evening, he told himself; instead, she had recognized his scent from some earlier encounter. Except...
"Cologne, Biji," he informed her. "Men wear cologne."
"Indeed," she murmured, then turned back to her work.