Or like C3P0 birthed a child of Akira Kurosawa. I'm happy to be a Smuggler

No - that's what WE do for maintenance outages in IT

Something like a reward/acheivement for nailing all the bonus objectives in each mission, maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_time#North_America

I went with Risha - mainly because I had her as a companion longer and already fed a lot of points towards her. It was a good plotline, IMO - though I've not done any companion affection gains towards Akaavi.