I kept thinking, 'oh this is science fiction' or 'oh, this is like Star Trek' or 'oh, this guy is like William Shatner and this lady is like one of the Star Trek ladies.'

Haha, yes. I kept thinking 'this is like Georgette Heyer'. At first I thought it was just because I don't have a lot of points of reference for het romance. But actually it turned out that the author of Shards of Honor WAS a fan of Heyer's.