This is a very annoying issue, because our "Trek Sense" is bumping up against the rules.
Why can't Movies era
Captain Spock and
Mr. Spock both have time traveled to the 24th Century to meet up with plain old
Spock and all the other non
people you have in play? Simple, Decipher thought that it would be insanely powerful to be playing a deck with all the original series characters reporting for free at
Sherman's Peak.... and then also reporting free again at
Camp Khitomer. I mean, isn't getting two Spocks in play at once enough?
There are very odd cases of
personnel who are personas with non
personnel - but the only example that comes to mind is
Major Rakal. The best way to think of her is analogous to all of the
Dr. Noah related personnel -- she's Deanna Troi in a costume, so she can't be in play when Deanna Troi is in play any more than Dr. Noah can be in play if Benjamin Sisko's body isn't trapped inside the holodeck. (Great episode, and smart way to give stakes to something happening in the holodeck other than the old "holograms have run amok and the safeties are off!")
Richard Castillo's lore should say he was involved with
Tasha Yar - Alternate. This is just one of those errors that was never fixed. You'll also notice that there are a lot of mentions in lore from early sets (like premier) of romantic partners that aren't actually cards like
Soren listing "Commander William T. Riker" ,
K'Ehleyr being a "Mate of Lieutenant Worf" and
Jenna D'Sora listing "Lt. Commander Data". You would think would be good enough given that the name of the correct card is actually in there each time, but apparently we're requiring an exact match.
I'm guessing they haven't fixed this for balance reasons: using
Assign Mission specialists or
Assign Support Personnel could download
all of the partners listed above, with Cafe des Artistes to download the other personnel.