I don't know, ask Spock!
Ethan Peck cast as DSC's Spock
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@Spock, any help?
Ask the Romulan agent in ENT who got his ridge back.
They did however have a little bit of prosthetic enhancement on their brow to make it bigger, it's hard to see though without a comparison of the actors without it.
There wouldn't have been enough time to do it anyways.
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Yeah, I kinda like to ignore that the Romulans had ridges. I just assume that they wanted to differentiate Romulans from Vulcans so they didn't have to go "These are Romulans who split off from the Vulcans some two thousand years ago" to explain why the two species looked identical. Not sure if that is the reason though.
So, you go from discussing Karloff to....that.
Dammit, you know that he hated 'House of Frankenstein' !
This is what Memory-Alpha has to say on the subject
Basically it was a change for the sake of change.
Side note, Ronald D. Moore personally hated it because it contradicted their background from TOS.
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The explanation is anyone posing as Romulan on a Berman era show gets ridges and a bad wig, with the exception of Nimoy.
Those wigs were horrendous. Seriously, did they buy them from Big Lots or something?
Nothing canon about that. For all we know, they mated with Ruffles...
That's a lot of hanky panky.
Those Romulan ridges....
And I swear, someone should re-do The Boll Weevil Song into The Bowl Wiggo Song.
And I swear, someone should re-do The Boll Weevil Song into The Bowl Wiggo Song.
There is no doubt that there exist both smooth and ridged Romulans, and also some in between. Whether there are also ridged Vulcans is an open question; it's possible, but I see no direct indication of it. Even if such wasn't explicitly specified in the case of "Tallera"/T'Paal, thus leaving the matter open to speculation in her case, we know from the example of Menos from "The Seventh" (ENT) that Vulcans do sometimes surgically alter their spies, just as Romulans have.
As others have surmised, for all we know, the ridges are a trait those Romulans who have them acquired through their ancestors interbreeding with other races during and following their exodus from Vulcan. Perhaps even with...Remans! (Speaking of which, I don't think it's even been made clear in canon as to whether they were a native species subjugated by the Romulans, or rather are themselves a further offshoot of one sort or another.) We know Romulans are not necessarily wholly disinclined to such interbreeding, by the examples of Simon Tarses from "The Drumhead" (TNG), Sela from "Redemption" (TNG), and Ba'el from "Birthright" (TNG), even if some individuals such as the one in "The Enemy" (TNG) would likely never consider mixing with so-called "Klingon filth" out of prejudice. (And perhaps an underlying self-loathing of his own "alien" ancestry as well?)
-MMoM
As others have surmised, for all we know, the ridges are a trait those Romulans who have them acquired through their ancestors interbreeding with other races during and following their exodus from Vulcan. Perhaps even with...Remans! (Speaking of which, I don't think it's even been made clear in canon as to whether they were a native species subjugated by the Romulans, or rather are themselves a further offshoot of one sort or another.) We know Romulans are not necessarily wholly disinclined to such interbreeding, by the examples of Simon Tarses from "The Drumhead" (TNG), Sela from "Redemption" (TNG), and Ba'el from "Birthright" (TNG), even if some individuals such as the one in "The Enemy" (TNG) would likely never consider mixing with so-called "Klingon filth" out of prejudice. (And perhaps an underlying self-loathing of his own "alien" ancestry as well?)
-MMoM
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I like my Ruffle theory better.
That's a lie. Big Lots doesn't have wigs that good
But, was Spock posing as a Romulan? I thought he was there without official sanction but still known as the Vulcan Ambassador?
To give a compliment to ST09, I like that they gave the Romulans a subtler brow prosthetic. Berman era's was too drastic.
I'm more than game for Ethan. Just hope his acting chops are ace and he looks to make a home run with his performance, but from what it seems he's very excited to play the role no different than Anson.
