As long as she doesn't eat the board pieces, I'm sure things will go great.
I could be wrong, but I recall reading that the Nova Dawn was designed to support a crew of less than twenty
Another thing I wanted to mention, just offhand, is that the Nova Dawn is not a big ship. It has the living space and amenities to support a crew of about twenty tops.
Death battle averted!
Highly divergent races (e.g. a race of mushroom people being called "elves") are attributed to miscommunications between natives and extraterrestrials or colonists.