So, I don't think they were in a romantic relationship prior to the events of the film. Uhura kissing him and comforting him in the 'lift has genuine stakes and something at risk, for me, if she's taking their friendship and taking it to a new place. Not if it's only about revealing an established relationship to the audience.
Plus I don't think either of them would have entered into a relationship while he was her student. I don't think it's quite a power imbalance issue once she's a teaching assistant, but even then... I didn't actually take the "appearence of favourisim" scene to be a sign they were romantically involved. Just that they were very close and he was concerned that any appearence of impropriety would damage her career.
The closest thing I can find re: fraternisation was Archer and Hernandez, who kept their relationship a secret when he was her CO, and actually didn't actually continue it once they were of equal rank until after the Xindi. But it's hard pinning down regs, since the only times we see fraternisation it's eitehr characters of equal rank, or characters not in the same chain of command, and almost never captains ever.
(I had a post in my el jay (http://taraljc.livejournal.com/1330593.html), where people chimed in to help me fuill in canon gaps, after I first saw the film and was working on 'Ad Astra'.)
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Plus I don't think either of them would have entered into a relationship while he was her student. I don't think it's quite a power imbalance issue once she's a teaching assistant, but even then... I didn't actually take the "appearence of favourisim" scene to be a sign they were romantically involved. Just that they were very close and he was concerned that any appearence of impropriety would damage her career.
The closest thing I can find re: fraternisation was Archer and Hernandez, who kept their relationship a secret when he was her CO, and actually didn't actually continue it once they were of equal rank until after the Xindi. But it's hard pinning down regs, since the only times we see fraternisation it's eitehr characters of equal rank, or characters not in the same chain of command, and almost never captains ever.
(I had a post in my el jay (http://taraljc.livejournal.com/1330593.html), where people chimed in to help me fuill in canon gaps, after I first saw the film and was working on 'Ad Astra'.)