[DataNoh]

Does relevant game text or a rule have to explicitly use the word "kill" to count as a "kill" for a card like Valuable Prisoner?

More specifically:

1. Does requiring a player to discard a personnel for reasons other than death count as a kill? (Examples: Anaphasic Organism, Quantum Leap, Tarellian Plague Ship)
2. Does requiring a personnel to die count as a kill? (Examples: Archer, Torture)
3. Does being mortally wounded in battle count as a kill?

[eberlems]

"kill" is a special kind of discard, not every discard of personnel is a kill.

https://www.trekcc.org/op/1e_rulebook/C ... TLE(7.4.2)
6. Resolution: All mortally wounded cards die. Stunned cards become unstunned. All surviving cards in both forces are stopped. The battle is over.

[DataNoh]

Thanks! That makes sense for my first specific.

For the other two - the question is: Is causing a personnel's death (explicitly using words like "death" or "die") the same as killing them? Seems like the rules are ambiguous, but I'm leaning toward "yes". The rule you quoted has a link on the word "die" that redirects to "killed or destroyed".

Is there any other clarification for this?

[Takket]

when you say "causing a personnel's death" do you mean a card causing it (like a dilemma, e.g. Archer), or an action/card play that a player takes? e.g. Phaser Burns

[DataNoh]

when you say "causing a personnel's death" do you mean a card causing it (like a dilemma, e.g. Archer), or an action/card play that a player takes? e.g. Phaser Burns

As I read it, either one. A basic definition of the word "kill" is to cause death. In either of those cases, I'd say the personnel died, and was killed. Is that a fair interpretation?

[Takket]

Yes, any card the kills or dies or causes death would trigger Valuable Prisoner. A simple “discard” like Crell Mosset would not.

[Professor Scott]

Yes, Nineteen of Twenty is sad that Distribution Node says:

Your Borg here share first-listed skills at highest level. Once each turn, you may discard your drone here to make your drones here all gain any skill until end of turn.

[DataNoh]

That all makes sense. So is death = kill a fair connection if there's not another card involved? Like if a personnel is mortally wounded and dies, can I count it as a kill?

[Ashigaru]

Especially as relating to personnel battle, absolutely. From Rulebook 7.2.4, stage 6 of personnel battle.

"6. Resolution: All mortally wounded cards die." (Remainder omitted, emphasis in original.)