T-Ricks wrote:I'm a little confused by this: "if one card has the exact name of the other card written in bold in its lore, they are the same persona (e.g. Falcon and Miles O'Brien)"
So Falcon, by taking on the appearance of Miles O'Brien, becomes a persona of Miles O'Brien even though it isn't him? I don't know the Trek story line, so if it actually is Miles, then I retract the question.
The Trek storyline was that Miles' transporter pattern got trapped in the holodeck, effectively merging the holo-character of Falcon with the real character of Miles O'Brien. If
Falcon died in the holodeck, then Miles died in real life. (So
Secret Agent Julian Bashir had to then fight all the bad guys and "win" the holoprogram without actually killing anybody. Fun episode.)
In Decipher's opinion, this was enough to make them "count" as the same person for purposes of duplication.
Normally, a holographic re-creation of a personnel doesn't qualify as a version of the persona. For example, the Romulan hologram
Chief O'Brien is
not a version of Miles O'Brien. But, in the case of Falcon and the other Secret Agent Bashir holograms, there was enough of a connection between the real character and the hologram to "count."
This is one of the stranger persona versions in the game, but O'Brien is one of the few personnel in the game to have multiple versions
and a mirror opposite
and an infiltrator (
don't worry about the second two things - they aren't in the basic rulebook and for good reason) so I used him for the example anyway.
The IMO strangest persona in the game is
Jadzia Dax, because
Ezri Dax is considered a version of her.
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