I think most of this conversation is misguided and taking too many hyper-literal interpretations of the rules. Given multiple sources and the history of the game, it should be clear that the intent is and always as been that cards with point boxes, including
cards, go to the point area.
One of the tenants (even if unwritten and uncodified) of the game is that points, to the extent possible, it kept track by cards. This is the entire reason missions are slid toward you and cards are placed in point boxes. Of course, there are exceptions to this, but those are exceptions- intended to be intentional rarities.
If we want to take the point box and point area literally, then I should point out there is no rule whatsoever the indicates that a card with a point box automatically scores (except for dilemmas and objectives). Does
Business Gambit,
Latinuum Payoff or
Parallax Arguers score points? Nothing explicitly says these cards "scores points".
M a y b e they have point boxes simply to have a subtle interaction (e.g.
Are These Truly Your Friends, Brother?). Further according this rule, a card only goes to your bonus point area by default if it "leaves play".
If a card with a bonus point box is worth points to you when it leaves play, place it in a point area on your side of the table so that you remember those points. These cards are not in play, nor are they part of your discard pile.
Hence,
Kevin Uxbridge,
Amanda Rogers and interrupts in general (among other cards) never enter play, so they should never go to the point area.
Of course, this interpretation is absurd. It is beyond clear that the intention of these cards is to score points and be placed in the point area as part of their resolution.
Simply put: Just like the presence of a point box assume the points score upon an explicit or implicit condition (e.g., in some cases, simply playing the card), the presence of a point box assumes the card will be placed in the point area when scored unless elsewhere more appropriate (e.g. "worth points"). The notion that a card- whose text is simply paraphrasing the rules- would override this (albeit unwritten) tenant regarding point boxes seems overreaching.
I would further contend that a card does not "enter play" until it fully resolves to enter play. The entry for "in play" as evolved over the years, but it has been and continues to be a futile and tautological attempt to classify all the ways a card can "enter play." A history of the entry shows multiple subtle revisions including the addition of the parenthetical text (May 2021) to emphasize that pending (played) cards played aren't in play until they resolve. However, this held before this, even if it was not codified. One of the very first FAQ's reads:
b) [Kevin Uxbridge] can prevent an event from ever entering play if [Kevin Uxbridge] is played immediately after the event is played.
Hence, the concept of "entering play" was assumed to be second nature: the card had to move from another zone into play, and had to do so "successfully." That seemed so obvious that it never needed to be explicitly be said. Indeed, at one point the "in play" entry emphasized what "zones" a card could be in addition to "in play", the corollary being that it was only "in play" if it wasn't in one of those zones- and the list was a futile attempt to compile a comprehensive list of ways a card could enter play, but it was never meant to delineate exactly when a card entered play.
Again, that was to go without saying- for a card to enter play, it had to be successful and not immediately discarded upon effect.
To demonstrate the lack of completion of the entry, according to a hyper-literal reading today, personnel entering play with
Anti-Time Anomaly with
Persistence of Memory or even
The Caretaker's "Guests" or
Quandary aren't "in play" because those personnel did not meet any of the prescribed conditions. But of course, that is absurd. Similarly, taking the "in play" entry that a
card is "in play" immediately upon its initiation (unlike its Q-less counterparts) is a very big stretch. Outside of this conversation, I would find it hard to convince anyone that an
Into the Breach (an event) would repair all ships even if it were nullified by Kevin Uxbridge or (pre-errata) Q-Flash upon encounter. Given the non comprehensive nature and history of the "in play" rule, it is more natural to conclude with the interpretation that analogous parenthetical text should apply to all other methods to "enter play"- including
cards. Hence,
cards with point boxes never enter play to be affected by Q-Flash's "new text."
In all, this conversation is simply the result of a small oversight in rules changes and multiple hyper-literal interpretation of cards and rules that, if held, would catastrophically cascade to other cards.
Lastly, the intent that
cards go to your point area is solidified by the repeated mention of such in the updated Dilemma Resolution Guide.
In all, the intent and answer are clear: They go to your point pile and it has always been that way.
The point area shall
Live Long and Prosper wherever possible.