Did the Romulans miss a good opportunity to take care of the Klingons

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once and for all after the war?

Klingon's forces were decimated by the war and Romulus was in relative good shape. Romulans seemingly missed a grand opportunity to care of an old, weaker enemy say 2 years after the war.

Perhaps even after they confiscated the "secret" Reman uber-ship building institute and get some nice tech for the new Warbirds. I just can't believe the Romulans are gonna play nice after the Dominion War and Basin Rift Incidient

 

[Thor Damar]

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It's an interesting idea but I think that the Feds would have threatened war with the RSE if that had occurred. I don't think that the Romulans could manage a two front war and if that happened then the Breen would have swept in and taken Romulus.

Instead the Klingon Empire just seems to get stronger (at least until the Borg show up...)

 

[carlmarx]

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And isn't that what "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" was about? Sloan succeeded in ensuring that the correct people were in power and would do exactly as the Federation pleased after the Dominion War. I think they established that the Romulans wouldn't be a future threat in that episode.

 

[StarryEyed]

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The Dominion War solidified the Federation-Klingon alliance more than ever. Not a chance the Feds don't join forces with the Klingons if they are attacked by the Romulans.

 

[Xerxes1979]

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Romulans don't start blatant unprovoked wars. Wasn't this mentioned in Data's Day or The Neutral Zone or something?

Maybe if the Klingons did something stupid but Martok seemed a competent enough leader.

 

[Unicron]

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Besides, there are several points in the war where the Romulan forces clearly took losses similar to, or possibly exceeding, those of their Fed and Klingon allies. While it's true they had the advantage of late belligerency, that doesn't mean they'd be in the best shape to start a new war against the Klingons.

 

[Jono]

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The Romulans can't even keep the Remans in line let alone take on the mighty Klingon Empire.

The main problem for the Romulans would be the Federation. They would go to the Klingon's aid and they would be screwed.

As for post-Shinzon, there would be a power vacuum and it is easy to see that there might be some unrest as people jockey for position. Then they only have 8 years until Romulan explodes and who knows much much of the empire is destroyed by that event as well. At that point what would happen is probably what has happened in STO's timeline and the Klingons go marching in.

 

[Myasishchev]

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And isn't that what "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" was about? Sloan succeeded in ensuring that the correct people were in power and would do exactly as the Federation pleased after the Dominion War. I think they established that the Romulans wouldn't be a future threat in that episode.

To some degree.

At any rate, it's just as well to ask why the US (principally Roosevelt) permitted the Soviets to take all of Eastern Europe. I doubt the public would have stood for a war against the Russians at the time, even though it would have been relatively easy, given the fact that the RKKA was practically broken, the USSR stood on the verge of an economic precipice, and we had the bomb.

You know, I always wondered why Koval was pro-Federation. It was never really established why he was treasonous, just that he was--I mean, he's probably not being paid.

 

[Kegg]

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With Romulus all exploded, and after that war with the Remans, I'd expect the Romulan Empire has had its moment and found itself riddled instead with bullets. So ends their chapter, rather ignominiously if I may say so.

The post-DS9 war opportunity for Romulus was chiefly to consolidate a hold of former Cardassian territory - muck about and 'liberate' a third of it, if they could get away with it (as the USSR did), and hey, maybe a piece of the Breen or whatever else is left over.

Attacking the Klingons means dealing with the Feds, and the Romulans won't go with open war when they could gain that through subterfuge (the whole point of "Redemption" and "Unification" on TNG).

I always wondered why Koval was pro-Federation. It was never really established why he was treasonous, just that he was--I mean, he's probably not being paid.

Time travel.

No, really. The Feds approach Koval with incriminating evidence proving that he's a traitor who feeds information to them.

But he hasn't done that!

Hasn't done it yet.

And the only solution to stop the Feds from leaking the info is to do become a traitor anyway, which is why he did it which enables the Feds to get the data they use in the past to coerce him.

Time travel. Don't you love it?