Why wouldn’t he be on the identical ship? Quel, Cort and La’Ni had been all on the Aldoricut final time we noticed them. It doesn’t look like a lot time has handed since, and there’s no actual motive for that to vary till after the dialogue what the Federation needs to do with them (aka this dialog).
Notice that neither of those individuals are within the battle of the earlier pages. The Vicen right here (presumably) isn’t beneath direct assault. They simply dropped the decision with Quel as a result of they only bought phrase of what’s taking place with their different Starcaster.