while i was in the navy there were times where we would "tomcat" and bring a girl back to the barracks (i was a seabee "dirt squid") but we both usually knew it wasn't going to be a regularly occurring thing

i knew plenty of my battalion mates who wound up engaged in homeport where we had less hours and more time to actually get to know people but when we were deployed any week we didnt work 18 hours a day 6 days a week was a miracle and most of the time our day off was spent on guard duty so establishing any kind of relationship was difficult even sexual ones

so yeah we got around sometimes and it was usually the women who engaged that behavior but like our duty ports were japan and puerto rico and this was 98/2001 so the culture gap was far bigger then cause the internet wasn't as prevalent as it is now (like no one was talkin about friends and seinfeld in okinawa) so while i get how the enterprise is like the nimitz pulling into Virginia i can't imagine having enough time to disembark from a crew of 1000 find the best singles bar and then get that alien back to my quarters and then fall hoplessly in love in 22 minutes of that 38/42 minute episode while also making sure barclay isn't dry humping the dilithium crystal port and sorting out my report on any bugs the quantum computers had while we did standard ship maintenance

picard meeting the thief chick on riza seemed more organic and while i wasn't a fan of her i could see her with a recurring role following the enterprise around and letting the crew do all the heavy lifting for her to pop in and steal a artifact and she was different enough from picard that he might be intrigued especially with her background in archaeology