Talk:Melanie Blanchard

I'm trying to decide whether she was a crewmember or a passenger of the Admiral Peary. She spent a good deal of time on the ship and a good deal more at the embassy. Was she a State Department employee attached to the embassy who stayed aboard the ship for a while to help out its medical officers until everyone recovered from cold sleep, or was she a medical officer herself who was on a detached assignment to the embassy? I don't recall the text being very clear on that point. Turtle Fan 02:12, August 24, 2010 (UTC)