Did you know I was in a Star Trek novel? Two actually. Both are by Andy Mangels and his writing partner, Michael A. Martin. The first is Last Full Measure, and you can read about how I came to be in the book here. The second is called The Good That Men Do. I happened to be looking at that book – I have copies of both, of course – and I found the following:
“Yes!” Corporal Peruzzi exclaimed over her suit’s com system. “It’s working.” He rarely heard the attractive young woman say anything; Reed noticed much earlier that whenever she did speak, she tended to communicate about half of her thoughts via her restlessly gesturing hands.
Isn’t that cute? Andy met me when I was interpreting an event, so he wrote that into the book. I was going to be a communications officer in the first book, but that role got assigned to someone else, and I became the muscle of the Starfleet Marines (MACOs). Yet he didn’t forget the bit about sign language, and included it. So fun!