Interruptions? Stop Interrupting Me!

At this point Dean appeared on the monitor. "Wow!! Thanks...wanna comeaboard?""Sure." was all Jay said in response.Something about the guy was familiar....he looked at his student "Youknow....something tells me I should take that last comment about your flyingback...."<END SNIP>
 
As the doors swooshed open, Dean led the crew of the station in a round of applause for the hero. But he couldn't help but shake the feeling that he knew him before. When they shook hands, and Dean said "Dean Thomas, Pilot and..radar...guy...thing" Jay noticably flinched, and as he replied "Jay Chrysler. Pilot and space instructor." Dean's face contorted as something flashed across his mind.
 
"Would you fancy..." started Dean,
"...a toastie?" finished Jay.
"That was weird." said the failed pilot.
"You're telling me." said Jay.
 
As Dean took the guys over for a celebratory toastie and some cheap beer they'd managed to scrounge up from somewhere, he couldn't help but feel odd in this man's company.
"That was some pretty fancy flying man." said Dean, putting the toasties into the machine and lowering the lid.
"You do much flying?" asked Jay, swigging from a bottle.
"Well, you know the Space Corps. I trained as a pilot so naturally I've been a logistics officer, a truck driver, a cafeteria worker and now, apparently, a radar operator since I qualified."
"Were you any good?"
"Pretty near the top of my class. Somehow. I was never into all that fancy-dan fighter stuff though. I always preferred the huge, hulking ships. In fact, I had a dream once, where I was piloting this large craft down to a planet surface, and inside its hold was the crew of a large ship on an away machine. That's the sort of thing I prefer doing. The heavy bombing and transport things." Jay stood stock still. The bottle half in his mouth. Dean continued. "Anyway, I can't remember the name of the ship, I think it was..."
"The Inbound Raven?" said Jay. Gobsmacked.
"Weird." said the failed pilot, reaching to lift the toastie handle before they were burnt into a cheese, ham and tomato charcoal lump. Only flat.
"Do I know you?" asked Dean to the hero of the hour...
 
Dean "Raven once more?" Thomas