[dogscoff]

Oh, if you're doing that, make a "monster trainer" component. It seems kinda silly to have a boarding party taking control of a monster.

Of course, the only sensible way to apply it (without re-writing all the capture techs) would be to make the monster trainer exactly the same as a boarding party except for the name and picture. You'd still be able to capture ships with monster trainers and monsters with boarding parties, but most of the time people would be going for just one or the other and so it wouldn't happen often. They could also willingly refrain from using them inappropriately if they wanted.

It would be good component for roleplay, basically. =-)