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*** I don't think one would need to think of Picard as a traitor to be aware of his face and name after the Borg incident. Who wouldn't remember the name and face of the guy who was (under compulsion or otherwise) coming to destroy your civilization? No matter how you slice it, "Gambit" doesn't make a ton of sense, especially that a Vulcan wouldn't see through him -- a Vulcan! They should remember ever face they ever see.
** Why should his face 'be plastered all over everything'? Starfleet is not holding Jean-Luc Picard criminally responsible for Locutus' actions, and if they spammed the full details of the event all over the solar system the man would never be able to go outside without being harassed. Sure, any Starfleet officer who survived Wolf 359 should be able to recognize him in their sleep, but there's no reason to make it ''public'' knowledge.
** Extremely famous people walk around in public all the time and don't get recognized, often because they're not dressed/acting like the impression we have of them from whatever they're famous for. That's without even adding the difficulty of telling members of another race (or in ''Trek's'' case '''species''') apart. Picard's just another bald, white human, there are probably billions of those out there in the galaxy, without even adding in aliens that mostly look like humans. Picard's just not as distinctive as some are making him out to be, and even as important as he was in certain events, I doubt most civilians out there in the galaxy have seared, '''''[[Never Live It Down|seared]]''''' it into their memory!
== Incapable of Lying? ==
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