OT: Star Trek Nemesis

disabled · #1 September 1st, 2002, 04:55 PM

Here's how I seem the doing the romulans. You know how the vulcans are all a bunch of jerks on Enterprise and the andorians are fighting the vulcans. Suppose the romulans subverted vulcan and the war was trying to drive the romulans off vulcan - but no one knew the romulans were on vulcan.

Magnum357 · #2 September 1st, 2002, 10:27 PM

??????? I'm a little confused by that Hadrian. Could you please explain that again. Are you saying that ST:Enterprise should make it where the Romulans occupy or influence Vulcan doctrine? Is that what you mean?

Magnum357 · #3 September 1st, 2002, 10:39 PM

Oh, and one other thing. What ever they do on ST:Enterprise, I sure hope they are very careful with this time thing. On that Last episode of Enterprise, they keep messing with this time stuff and that race that somehow everybody knows but no one likes, yet is never mentioned in the future (you know, the guys that can manipulate their bodies by their genetics). I'm really worried Enterprise is messing with the time stuff a little too much. The only episode I have ever saw that dealt with Time stuff well was a couple of TOS episodes and the TNG episode "yesterdays Enterprise" (My personal favorite).

I don't mind ST:Enterprise using time in their story plots, but they need to be very careful because since they use so many different writers to make their stories, inconsistancies seem to occure easily.

But at least it is good to hear that they do want to introduce the Romulans.

disabled · #4 September 2nd, 2002, 04:17 AM

Lemme clear up my hopes for the romulan war.

It always ran on my mind that the only way the war could have been that serious and have the romulans remain unknown was to use the vulcans.

The Vulcans and Andorians have this cold war thing going on, maybe fore a good reason. Perhaps the Romulans are secretly manipulating the Vulcans to expand thier empire. Weaken thy enemy before weaken thyself.

Soval always struck me as being on the emotional side.

Magnum357 · #5 September 2nd, 2002, 05:44 AM

A good possibility. I agree, their have been a few Vulcans that could be Romulans. Why couldn't they infiltrate Vulcan. I guess we will have to wait and see if Paramount will add the Romulan War or not.

disabled · #6 September 2nd, 2002, 05:04 PM

the good thing is that they arranged Enterprise to end it's run just before the formation of the Federation.

Perhaps the Romulan war never happened, but was made up to cover up the Temporal Cold War.

gregebowman · #7 September 2nd, 2002, 06:37 PM

Well, I don't know any of the SFB history, but from what I have read and understood over the 3 decades I've been a Trekkie, there was no visual contact between the terran (or federation) fleets and the Romulans. Now either the Romulans didn't have that kind of technology at the time (subspace transmissions), or they were very xenophobic and didn't want anyone to know what they looked like. Now, whether they knew they resembled Vulcans or not was unclear, but Berman made up for that in ST:TNG. One of the few things that has always bugged me about the Star Trek franchis is the use of language. It seems like every race speaks English (or Basic or whatever you want to call it) even when they are met for the first time. A univeral translator can only do so much. That's one thing I like about Enterprise, where they have to learn every new language. Maybe that's what caused the first Terran/Federation vs Romulan war; a simple lack of knowledge of each other's language and customs. It would be interesting once they do show this war to show the creation of the Federation. That would bring the Andorians and Tellarites into the treaty, and if I'm not mistaken, Alpha Centauri was the fifth founding race. I can't wait for September 18 to see the new season.