It's been a while since I watched the show, so I can't entirely recall, but were Lt. Nara Burns & Marsala meant to be seen as a "Beauty & The Beast" type couple or were they "just friends"? I know Maggie Weston & Alec Deleon dug each other, and JT Marsh dug Colleen O'Reilly, but my memory Nara & Marsala is fuzzier.
shareI think it was always hinted at, but never explicitly discussed.
Maybe because of the idea of a human and an alien kissing might have seemed a little too weird for the kiddies, I don't think they ever made them an official couple.
But if you ask me, they were totally hot for each other.
They were always extremely close but the wikipedia entry says that the series finale "implies she has fallen in love with him."
I went and tried to find a scene in Beyond Chaos with them in it. He flies her to her farm on Venus and she asks him to stay for a while he says he can't. She asks him if he can return after his work is done and he says he will never be done.
Their last conversation in the show was:
"Marsala... Marsala I-"
*He puts his hand on her cheek*
"I cannot be a part of your life Nara Burns. You have roots here, like that tree. You will rebuild this farm, marry, raise a family. My future lies elsewhere. I will return to visit you, if I may. You and your children."
*He leaves in his E-Frame*
"Goodbye... Marsala."
*She cries a single tear*
So it seems to me they probably were supposed to be romantically feeling for each-other, and they both knew it by then. From what I understand they were never actually together though. I'm not sure they even could have been in the traditional sense. Neo-spaiens are still human but they aren't capable of sexual reproduction, so we don't know if they are even capable of being physically romantic like Terrans.
It strikes me as a very strange but interesting concept. And while they probably would have done so more completely if the show had continued but I kind of wish they'd resolved it one way or another between them.