So I've finished the Citadel coup attempt mission, and I'm running all over the place collecting fetch quests left and right, and I get down to the refugee docks. First guy I meet after leaving the elevator is a salarian documentary maker named Solik Vass. C-Sec thinks he's a pest and won't let him take pictures of the refugees, so he asks shep to do it for him. Shep, being the obliging kinda gal she is, roams the docks and takes a few pictures.
Along the way, she picks up another fetch quest, takes a batarian off life support, encounters Balak and adds his fleet to the war assets, and discovers cerberus has sabotaged all the medi-gel dispensers, and that some idiot was preaching about Cerberus. Ahh Conrad, who wrote his doctoral dissertation on dark energy devices and xeno technology. Only he can't access the schematics without a license from Elkoss Combine... which the shep from this import savegame I downloaded doesn't have. Tut tut. This must not be.
So, I exited the game, loaded up gibbed, clicked a couple checkboxes and voila shep now has the Elkoss Combine license. Load save, have the full talk with Conrad, finish fixing the medigel dispensers, confront Balak, acquire the 'prothean sphere on garvug' fetch quest, report back to the doctor about the medigel, let Conrad try to take a bullet for me, and go find Solik Vass... remember the documentary guy? ... who tells me to come see him when I have enough footage. 
Doesn't he know who I am? What my mission is? What I've just spent the last half hour doing? How many guns I've had pointed at me in that half-hour? Enough footage? I think we're about to lose another salarian, or at least his camera, which I'm going to shove- err, nevermind.
Seems that if you reload a save while this quest is active, it may occasionally cause the photo ops to disappear, and I didn't get the snapshot of james playing poker with his buddies because there was nothing to click on. I know, I know, a bug in ME3. Shocking. I have to say that in all my playthroughs of ME3 This quest has never bugged out on me before.
I should mention at this point... The next closest save game I have prior to acquiring this quest begins immediately after saving the turian and asari councilors and shooting Udina. The first guy you talk to after that is commander Bailey. That is where i'd be, meaning all that running around all over the citadel again. 
Is Solik Vass worth the effort? This is what I'm asking myself now. What is it worth? A couple war assets, A couple rep points... an unfinished quest in my journal??

Crap. This is a tough decision.
I tried and failed messing around with gibbed and resetting the quest. I have no real idea where to look and what to change, and I don't feel like breaking the universe again, so... tough decision.