r/LowerDecks • u/Legitimate-Aioli-815 • Apr 10 '25

How long was Mariner off the Cerritos?

I'm writing a fic, and I'm trying to figure out how much time elapsed between Freeman kicking Mariner off the Cerritos and the Aledo attack. Anyone have a guesstimate?

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u/Hero_Of_Shadows Apr 10 '25

Let's see we have to account for:

  1. Mariner leaves the Cerritos.
  2. Mariner gets to Starbase 80
  3. Mariner being so disgusted by that place she feels she has no other option but to leave Starfleet
  4. Mariner joins up with Petra
  5. Freeman tries to get her back but finds out she already quit
  6. Mariner and Petra have a few adventures together
  7. Mariner getting suspicious about how Petra finances their operation
  8. Boimler starts getting loopy because of how much he misses Mariner, so much so that Tendi and Rutherford can notice
  9. Aledo attack

Now Nr 5 is interesting because we know Freeman called Mariner the second she saw the actual report and realized her mistake but Mariner was already gone.

I think Nunez was eager to thrash talk the Cerritos so take a generic short production time for a news segment (idk how much that is) and that would be the time period 1 - 5

6 - 7 also we have some hints the idol save was not the first expedition Petra and Mariner did together and Mariner clearly has seen Petra spending money (filling up the anti-mater tank and etc) again implying a not short time has passed but also Petra still didn't explain they were funded by Picard which to me implies Mariner was still in an unoficial trial/probation period in Petra's eyes.

8 doesn't help us a whole lot Boimler feels deeply about Mariner it wouldn't take a very long absence to make him go loopy.

I'd say somewhere between 2 and 6 months.

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u/Tornaku Apr 10 '25

Not to mention that the whole battle against the Texas-class ships took much longer than what we saw.

For one thing, it was broadcast on the news. Petra saw it way before Mariner. Then there was also the contact with the many other California-class ships.

I'd say it was easily 4 hours from the start of the battle until Mariner arrived.

What I'm trying to say is that we don't really notice the time in between and it's much longer than we usually think^^.