User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-4953843-20120717030539/@comment-4953843-20120717031802

that can be explained away as saying that even if miranda is a top lieutenant TIM is paranoid enough not to entrust her with cronos station's whereabouts (he uses disposable shuttle pilots and/or autopilot shuttles with controls inaccessible to the passenger every time miranda [or anybody else] travels there).

come indoctrinated TIM, apparently his standards relaxed enough to allow space ninja leeway to and from the station.