In my head canon I wonder when the romulans reunification with the vulcans happened and they joined the federation they came clean about the rumors that enterprise c survivors had been taken to the homeworld to give their families descendants some peace.
So, first of all..... I sometimes love the minutia fans can think of that are actually pretty neat. This is something I never thought about.
I suppose it really depends on WHEN the Unification happened. I can't recall from Discovery if it was mentioned when it did. If it was quite recent, I don't think after several centuries the descendants really cared. For me, knowing what happened to an ancestor from 500 years is interesting but not peacegiving. Now, let's say it happened in.... 2415. Unlikely but still. With the expanded lifespan of this era it might be that a grandchild of an officer on the E-C is alive and would like closure on it.
I suppose it really depends on WHEN the Unification happened. I can't recall from Discovery if it was mentioned when it did. If it was quite recent, I don't think after several centuries the descendants really cared. For me, knowing what happened to an ancestor from 500 years is interesting but not peacegiving. Now, let's say it happened in.... 2415. Unlikely but still. With the expanded lifespan of this era it might be that a grandchild of an officer on the E-C is alive and would like closure on it.
Ake can remember when the planet was still called "Vulcan", but the name change could have come long after the actual unification.
However I wonder what the Romulans would have thought if Sisko's actions in "In the Pale Moonlight" ever came to light.
However I wonder what the Romulans would have thought if Sisko's actions in "In the Pale Moonlight" ever came to light.
The only thing Disco said about when reunification happened was that it was "centuries ago" but also "centuries after Spock's death." With that in mind, my head canon is that it occurred around the 27th or 28th century. So, at that point we're talking about three to four hundred years later, unless one of them were a Lanthanite, I doubt anyone currently alive cared very much about the fact that an ancestor who would have been dead by now anyway actually lived for a few years after their recorded death as a prisoner of war before they actually died.
And all that's assuming records of Enterprise C survivors were even still available when reunification occurred. We are talking about an empire which collapsed due to the destruction of its homeworld and subsequent fracturing of its territory into many smaller nations. By the time of reunification, it's possible no Romulans alive had any knowledge of Starfleet officers being taken prisoner in the mid 24th century, nor were any records on the matter still available. The accounting on this matter would be the story Sela told Picard, which I guess can be verified by Sela's own existence.
And all that's assuming records of Enterprise C survivors were even still available when reunification occurred. We are talking about an empire which collapsed due to the destruction of its homeworld and subsequent fracturing of its territory into many smaller nations. By the time of reunification, it's possible no Romulans alive had any knowledge of Starfleet officers being taken prisoner in the mid 24th century, nor were any records on the matter still available. The accounting on this matter would be the story Sela told Picard, which I guess can be verified by Sela's own existence.
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