A female Ael was the primary Romulan character in the Rihannsu novels.
Should the Picard Show ignore ST-2009 destruction of Romulus?
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Maybe is a stretch. TOS definately...plus the books.
Ha! Don't forget to add Ceti Alpha VI to that list, right?
I stand by maaaaaybe. The Romulans in ST09 were really pretty dull and uninteresting. What made them work was Eric Bana's performance. That shit he put on screen was great! But that was his character - and not even the character in the script, but what he acted out of those few by-the-numbers lines. Not really the Romulan backstory.
Books could be interesting. To be fair, I've never read those ones, I don't know what "Rihannsu" actually means or what it stands for. But, regarding all of Trek alien species, the Romulans are probably the ones most in need of a re-tooling. That would be a good job for a series. But probably not if the focus is on Picard and his last (first?) new adventure. That is something an on-going series should delve into later on, when it's already standing on it's own feet.
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You mean Star Trek: Andromeda?
That really is one way I've always thought that the over advancement of tech, that some people complain about, and complicated back stories in Star Trek could be dealt with.Make up some big catastrophe that wipes everything away and start with a clean slate. Everything that happened is still canon, but you can pick which parts you want to bring back. Like Doctor Who did with the Time War.
You mean Star Trek: Andromeda?
Haha that would be cool, but as you indicate, it was sort of done! I have a lot of love for Andromeda, even if it was a bit rubbish.
I'm hoping for a smaller scale story - something based very much around Picard. Yes dealing with an issue, but not the fate of the whole Federation. Not everything has to be so high stakes. Something smaller, more personal and more relatable.
The destruction of Romulus happened in the Prime timeline, though. They would have to go out of their way to retcon it at this point. The only ambiguity is which star actually went supernova. ("Hobus" was only mentioned in a comic, and therefore isn't actually canon.)
But that's how the Kelvin timeline started was due to interference from the Prime Timeline.
I'll take Nimoy's word on it over most other's. It builds perfectly off of Spock's efforts to reunify Romulus with Vulcans in TNG. Spock is the only one the Romulans trusted and the only way to know that information is from Prime Timeline stories.
Also, for the record, this one the first time Nimoy had said yes to script since that TNG episode. Again, that carries a lot of weight to someone who originated such an iconic character.
Star Trek shouldn't do things that have been done before?
That should thin things out a bit.
It's they who coined the term "prime universe" in the first place.
Prime indicating a universe isn't a new term in fiction. I think comics have been doing it for ages.
And the makers of the Prime Timeline, CBS, agree with it.
And the makers of the Prime Timeline, CBS, agree with it.
Yeah, DC comics used to have an Earth that they called Earth Prime that was meant ot be our Earth. I think that they introduced that back in the 70's.
Dates back to 1968, Flash #179.
In Trek's world, that would be "The Alternative Factor" and it's antimatter universe.
Except, knowing Spock as we do, what would prime Spock do when confronted with an alternate timeline where Vulcan is destroyed? Spock would break any law, steal any ship, do anything in his power to restore the original timeline. He did not do that so even if the part was played by Nimoy, that is not the prime timeline Spock. He fails in that key character aspect we know so well. Nothing would stop him from setting the timeline right, no matter how many times he might have to travel back in time to find the right point.
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