Yeah, all the hints about Ivanova's telepathic powers just go off a cliff with the loss of Claudia. One more source of woe in all the changes!

I just realized that Ivanova as a fully realized telepath, which I agree with stranger seemed to be in the cards, would have been set up as far back as the very first mentions of her history in "Eyes," where Harriman Gray is expressly—one of the reasons the character always stuck with me—a latent telepath who manifested after his acceptance to Earthforce, her foil even if the audience doesn't know it then. (In hindsight it is incredibly obvious.) Even when she admits that she can do more than sense a scan in "Divided Loyalties," she still rates herself less than a P1. They would have been much more closely paralleled if her powers had begun to grow.