A Dame and an Author
High skill levels in Traveller5 are not uncommon. My Dame Qithka Cannagrrh has a 10 in Author. Since it is also a Life Pursuit, her overall base Target Number is 23 with a +1 whenever she is Searching for the Truth as a Field Correspondent.
Some characters who devote themselves to being one-trick ponies are going to muster out like the Dame above. How can a Referee compete? One way I can think of is to have a character like the Dame write her stories on-the-fly by being Hasty (+1D in Difficulty) as she flits from news site to the next and has to compose on the go. This is partly why she had a robot from Kfan Uzangou magazine follow her around everywhere she went, so her editor could spice up her reporting for use in entertainment or for socio-political propaganda.
The Referee is free to come up with other Mods or even positive DMs (a bad thing for the character), by stacking on all kinds of plausible reasons, e.g. story deadlines, rushed flight schedules, wasted time “in the hole”, censorship laws, etc. The end result of the Dame’s work might not be what the viewer sees or wants to see.
Just a couple of pennies.