Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing how you guys are reading it. What's the dilemma trying to match, if not printed skills?
The smart-aleck objection I was expecting for this card was, "My away team has Darian Wallace and Kathleen Tonnell in it.
Darian Wallace's printed skill of Anthropology doesn't match
Kathleen Tonnell, because
Anthropology is a skill and Kathleen Tonnell is a personnel! Ha!"
(Second smart-aleck objection: "Anthropology is a skill. 'Matching' means affiliation. Kathleen is
.
Anthropology does not equal
! Ha!")
To which my planned reply was, "Don't be silly; when a card tells you it needs to match another card, it is asking whether it matches some particular feature of the card, which is affiliation by default but may be some other feature based on game text. Read the card non-absurdly and you will see that the only reasonable interpretation is that 'matching' refers to the thing from the previous clause: printed skills."
It seems that you guys are 90% of the way there (and not being smart-alecks), and you recognize that "matching" here refers to some kind of skills, not to affiliation or to card title or whatever... but what's making you think that you can match "skills" while dropping "printed"?
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