#575313
I was watching 11001001 the other night and noticed this line of dialogue:
So, is "paired" in their lore indicating gender, along the lines of Quinteros's quote from the episode when he corrects Riker's mis-gendering by explaining that they are a "pair" and not "gentlemen" or "ladies?"
On the one hand, we have a solid precedent that the game needs to be playable just with the cards, without requiring you to memorize every episode script. On the other hand, the new gender rule allows for genders which would only be knowable if you had seen particular episodes. For example, the article announcing the rules change mentioned "cogenitor" and "thaan" as potential card genders, but if (hypothetically) those words appeared in lore there's no way to know that those indicate genders without being familiar with various Trek media. Is "paired" indicating such a gender? Or is it not a gender at all -- perhaps Quinteros's statement should be interpreted as them being genderless; but since the card does not indicate it they are played as male.
This is clearly not a huge rules crisis demanding immediate answers. I'm just curious what you all think...
RIKER: And are these gentlemen the Bynars?And 10 and 01's lore has the following:
QUINTEROS: They're not gentlemen, or ladies, Commander. They are a unified pair. They're always together. This is One Zero. (device on left of head) And this is Zero One. (device on the right) They just finished upgrading the computers on the Wellington. Did a great job.
Paired Bynars from the planet Bynaus...For as long as I can remember, 10 and 01 have been played as male under the rule that cards that don't clearly indicate gender in lore/image are male. I think this made 10 and 01 unambiguously male, until the November gender rule update, which allows for more genders than male/female/"neuter", but instead "If a card specifies its gender in lore, it has that gender -- even if that gender is not defined in the rules or used by any other card."
So, is "paired" in their lore indicating gender, along the lines of Quinteros's quote from the episode when he corrects Riker's mis-gendering by explaining that they are a "pair" and not "gentlemen" or "ladies?"
On the one hand, we have a solid precedent that the game needs to be playable just with the cards, without requiring you to memorize every episode script. On the other hand, the new gender rule allows for genders which would only be knowable if you had seen particular episodes. For example, the article announcing the rules change mentioned "cogenitor" and "thaan" as potential card genders, but if (hypothetically) those words appeared in lore there's no way to know that those indicate genders without being familiar with various Trek media. Is "paired" indicating such a gender? Or is it not a gender at all -- perhaps Quinteros's statement should be interpreted as them being genderless; but since the card does not indicate it they are played as male.
This is clearly not a huge rules crisis demanding immediate answers. I'm just curious what you all think...