A question about Season 2 episode Minefield

[Timo]

Curiously, canon still stays so quiet about the Romulan War that we don't even know the dates! It may have happened between the last two ENT episodes, or well after the UFP was founded, or perhaps was something that happened before ENT but wasn't realized to have happened because ships and news were slow as molasses back then.

The only onscreen source that supports the thing that everybody assumes to be true - that the Romulan War took place between 2156 and 2160, involved just Earth and Romulus and not the Federation, and ended with the battle of Cheron - is an essentially illegible bit of computer screen decoration from the parallel universe of "In a Mirror, Darkly". Everything else about the war still comes from "Balance of Terror" and the books.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Willow]

Curiously, canon still stays so quiet about the Romulan War that we don't even know the dates! It may have happened between the last two ENT episodes, or well after the UFP was founded, or perhaps was something that happened before ENT but wasn't realized to have happened because ships and news were slow as molasses back then.

The only onscreen source that supports the thing that everybody assumes to be true - that the Romulan War took place between 2156 and 2160, involved just Earth and Romulus and not the Federation, and ended with the battle of Cheron - is an essentially illegible bit of computer screen decoration from the parallel universe of "In a Mirror, Darkly". Everything else about the war still comes from "Balance of Terror" and the books.

Timo Saloniemi

Thanks for the info, Timo! I always have a difficult time keeping up with canon specifics, since I'm primarily an Enterprise fan. I haven't watched TNG in its entirety since the 90s, haven't seen TOS since the 70s, and rushed through VOY in a "marathon". I can't even keep timelines and alt universes straight. I'm impressed at all the fans that know all the specific details.

Perhaps that's why I enjoy ENT so much...because I'm the last to notice any continuity issues.

 

[Mister Spock]

My assumption has always been that the higher echelons of the Vulcan government knew that they and the Romulans were the same species, but this information is kept out of the public domain.

 

[Nebusj]

I loved that little bit in that episode whose name I can't remember, where Archer and Daniels were far in the future, in a library, and Archer sees a book entitled: "The Romulan Star Empire" and Daniels says that Archer probably shouldn't read that; obviously knowing that Archer is going to be involved in the war. Yeah, fun...

``Huh,'' says Archer, skimming the book. ``Apparently Earth's greatest strategic breakthrough was having its assets preceded by Travis Mayweather, so the Romulans couldn't even remember what they were trying to shoot long enough to open fire. I wonder where this Travis Mayweather guy is. The Enterprise could really use an edge like that.''

 

[Tim Thomason]

My assumption has always been that the higher echelons of the Vulcan government knew that they and the Romulans were the same species, but this information is kept out of the public domain.

Of course they did. The Romulans were controlling the higher echelons of the Vulcan government with their agent, Administrator V'Las.