User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-123.2.70.12-20120530045707/@comment-1388547-20120530061524

That's not a bad notion. We never actually hear from Joker, IIRC, once the Earth mission starts. The sensible thing would be to either attach the Normandy to one of the Alliance fleets, or, better, keep her in reserve and call her in if there's something that needs a fast, stealthy ship -- a ground bombardment mission, or personnel extraction, or disrupting a flanking attack by the enemy. That's just one more thing I'd have liked to hear more about. (I think that's actually one of the few times in the series when it's not clear what the Normandy is doing.)