That's one of my favourite ENT arcs too. It's as close to the Romulan Wars & the Birth of the Federation as they were allowed... with the cancellation announced between Babel One and United.
A Good Romulan Movie, is it possible?
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ChristopherPike said:
I'm pretty sure it's occasional stuntperson, background artist & Babylon 5 regular - Patricia Tallman. In TNG/DS9, she usually ends up sitting at a console that's about to explode! So that Romulan role was probably her meatiest Trek part.seigezunt said:
I think she had a major role in that one TNG episode where a bunch of people try to steal trilithium from the ship (Picard's "Die Hard" episode - Starship Mine).
ADB stands for Amarillo Design Buereu. They do the Star Fleet Universe (Starfleet Battles, Prime Directive, etc).
Catalian Dar per the Star Trek V novelization is of Romulan/ Terran-Irish descent.
Catalian Dar per the Star Trek V novelization is of Romulan/ Terran-Irish descent.
In Unification, Spock walks the streets of Romulus freely, not attracting any attention with his flat Vulcan forehead. Does that mean that there are Romulans who also feature the flat head?
Also, why do all TNG and beyond Romulans (and Vulcans for that matter) have haircuts that look like Moe Howard?
Studios think in broad terms. After Nemesis, I doubt you will see the Romulans on screen for a long, long time. They have the stink of failure on them.
But then again, J.J. Abrams is a smart and gutsy filmmaker, who often gets his way...
But then again, J.J. Abrams is a smart and gutsy filmmaker, who often gets his way...
Yeah the Romulans weren't responsible for the Picard Clone, or the Remans, or the uber-ridiculous warbird from hell, or the really stupid WMD plot device, or the (yet another) Data copy, or the...
Okay, well maybe they were, but you get the idea.
Okay, well maybe they were, but you get the idea.
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What does this have to do with ST XI? I think I'll move it back, primarily for reasons like "because I can" and "I've never done it before".
blakbyrd said:
Someone mentioned that Dar didn't look fully Romulan, earlier in this thread.Vulcanian said:
What does that have to do with anything?
She sure didn't *act* Romulan.
And 'Caithlin' is a human name...
To me, Nemesis was the opportunity to return the Romulans to being the bad guys of the Star Trek Universe--the enemy the Federation was most likely to enter a full-scale, all-out war with.
Instead we got Star Trek: Attack of the Clones with Remans getting more screentime than Romulans.
Nemesis should have been a no-brainer, a straightforward, no-clones or Remans allowed story about Picard and the Enterprise facing their equals in the Romulan Navy. If anything, Nemesis could have been simply a super-sized sequel to TOS' "Balance of Terror" or TNG's "The Defector" the same way TWOK was a sequel to "Space Seed."
But it's always easy in hindsight for someone to say "what oughta been done."
At this point, however, I don't think a Romulan movie is possible. Unless it's a movie about a full-out, "I ain't playing with you, fool!" Romulan attack on the Federation, any such movie probably runs the risk of being too much like "Nemesis redux"...
Instead we got Star Trek: Attack of the Clones with Remans getting more screentime than Romulans.
Nemesis should have been a no-brainer, a straightforward, no-clones or Remans allowed story about Picard and the Enterprise facing their equals in the Romulan Navy. If anything, Nemesis could have been simply a super-sized sequel to TOS' "Balance of Terror" or TNG's "The Defector" the same way TWOK was a sequel to "Space Seed."
But it's always easy in hindsight for someone to say "what oughta been done."
At this point, however, I don't think a Romulan movie is possible. Unless it's a movie about a full-out, "I ain't playing with you, fool!" Romulan attack on the Federation, any such movie probably runs the risk of being too much like "Nemesis redux"...
Truth is, Paramount kept nixing any major Romulan involvement in stuff because they think the audience is so dumb we couldn't tell the difference between them and Vulcans. That's why they've been used so little as real adversaries. What we think is so cool about them is also the same reason they get no respect...
It sure is. But the words: Romulus, Remus, Praetor and Centurion, all established as Romulan terms in "The Balance of Terror", have a human origin. So does Decius. In fact, all those are Roman. It's quite intentional, as they were modeled on the Romans.
Indeed, Vulcan is also Roman. And Spock is a human name. And so on; and so on. Suspension of disbelief is a reasonable price, I think: Better writers plunder from real cultures then have a half-baked attempt to establish new ones. I'd love a Romulan film that imported all kinds of Roman concepts wholesale, personally, but that's just me...
By whose measure? If your gauge is the Next Gen Romulans then maybe... other then that she seemed Romulan enough to me.
Plus even with her odd first name she was identified as being Romulan by Talbot.
No but that doesn't tell us much. Even if we are to discard possible human ancestry we can easily infer she could have had eccentric parents who came across the name 'Caithlin' and thought it fit some Romulan cultural quirk.
I basiclly see the ToS Romulans and NG Romulans as two different species. Some where they got crossed with Klingons...
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