edgeofhearing wrote:If it prevented stop/kill prevention, then I believe the wording would be "effects of dilemmas cannot be prevented". The wording used definitely targets whole dilemma prevention only, the weird part is what it means when the preventing card also says that it overcomes the dilemma.
I agree.
Truculent Statecraft says
dilemmas cannot be prevented, which means it only stops text which specifically prevents dilemmas, and nothing else.
This wording does cause some weird interactions. For example, if you use
Future Geordi's ability while facing (and not meeting the requirements of)
Gomtuu Shock Wave, you fail to prevent the dilemma but do overcome it, which means your personnel end up stopped but the dilemmas goes beneath the mission.
I really wish Decipher had never used the phrase "prevent and overcome." I would prefer they had just used the word "prevent" and added a clarification or rule that prevented dilemmas get overcome unless specified otherwise. Then we wouldn't have the verbose wording of
Split Second or any confusion over Truculent Statecraft.
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