Slayer07 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:40 pm
It's really no more of a stretch that saying a prisoner being coerced is part of the affiliation coercing him. Especially since remember that he was not working for Romulan interests, he was at best (indirectly) working for the interests of the underground which is contradictory to the majority of Romulans.
I think this Picard would be well represented as a
personnel with
Treaty: Federation/Cardassian. Or perhaps even better represented not as a personnel at all, but with a
Incident that downloads that Treaty at the start of the game. Had Picard left the Enterprise and joined a Cardassian crew on a Cardassian mission, that'd be another story.
Personally I do agree the "prisoner" personnel are weird from an affiliation standpoint. Ideally they would play
only as prisoners, but restricting them as such would either take up most (or all) of the text box or involve a new loaded icon. I see their current implementation as a compromise to get the Rura Penthe storylines to fit into a game that wasn't really designed to handle that type of story.
As for the Romulan Underground, being part of an affiliation doesn't mean you support the government of that affiliation*. The movement was working for Romulan interests, just different interests than those of the Praetor, Senate, Tal Shiar and military. One cool thing about this game is that you can choose if you want to have your deck represent
The Romulan Underground or the
more traditional Empire or mix them both together. Since Picard did support the Romulan Underground (despite it not being his original intention when he went to find Spock), I think his
version makes sense.
*As an example, many of the game's Klingons openly oppose whoever sits as Chancellor in their episodes/movies, and yet are still
personnel.
"Save your strength. There'll be another time. The princess - you have to take care of her. You hear me?" -Han Solo to Chewbacca, ESB