>Oh - I guess there's no harm in explaining this. The belt and baldric
>(which she can't wear with that uniform because it would cover her
>rank bar) were gifts from a Klingon member of the Challenger
>crew who is related to Professor Kraalgh. When Utena defeated
>Kraalgh, the professor should have given her a baldric himself, but it
>slipped his mind. He's been away from Qo'noS too long. (The
>belt isn't usually part of the deal; it was an improvisation because
>the baldric wouldn't work with the uniform. :)
>
>That was originally covered in a longer version of the scene aboard
>the ship itself, but it turned into a tremendously long-winded "meet
>the crew of the ship" sequence, so I deleted it. It will probably get
>covered in retrospect at some later point.
>

I hope you didn't throw it away totaly. If it never gets covered you can always finish it off and release it as a side story. Yeah, it doesn't move the main story forward, so maybe it doesn't belong in the main line, but there are bunches of us who would love to read it anyway. ^_^

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