enabrantain wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 7:46 pm
nobthehobbit wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 1:19 pm
The icon is already a special staffing icon (and is used in a few other places, too, such as U.S.S. Akira), so giving it to everyone would probably be overpowered.
The icon that should be used, in my opinion, is the other icon called out on Federation Flagship: Relaunched, the First Contact expansion icon. It has been used for this purpose a few times, on Suzanne Dumont and Martinez. Add it to Kathryn Janeway and Matthew Dougherty and that's all you need.
But making the icon more available will make the USS Enterprise-E more playable and allow future ships to have it as a staffing icon. We still don't have a generic USS Sovereign, not to mention any representatives of the Sabre Class, Steamrunner Class or Norway Class vessels. And the fact that they put TNG and Generations together for says they've been planning to make equal to , , , , and . But I could be wrong.
There's already a universal support personnel with
:
Jae. It doesn't make sense for Janeway or Dougherty to have
(the original debate over the icon, that I recall, was brought about because the original version of that Janeway did have the icon, some people objected on the basis that she was never assigned to the Enterprise-E and Design changed it to
), but it also makes no sense to exclude them from a FF:Relaunched deck since they're literally from that same time period and place and operated alongside the Enterprise-E in some fashion. Hence why I think the First Contact expansion icon should be used as a general era icon, at least for personnel seen to be interacting with or assigned to the Enterprise-E in some way (so, setting aside the
personnel from that era, not including personnel like
Reginald Barclay,
E.M.H. - Mark II,
Lewis Zimmerman or a hypothetical Owen Paris;
Deanna Troi, by contrast, was on leave from the Enterprise-E).