Explanation for Romulan Ridges?

[bryce]

Some have ridges, some don't. Just never saw it in TOS because Kirk never bumped into one, didn't mean they didn't exist just that we never saw the crew meet one. We don't see every single moment of their lives.

Except in DS9 we saw the return of the TOS Klingons, Kang, Kor, and Koloth...but now they all had forehead ridges for some reason.

As if they were always that way, per Gene's explainarion...or in the 24th century, they found a cure for the Augment virus.

Discovery seems to be taking a new path from TNG, DS9, and ENT, and saying that what we saw in TOS was just an interpretation of how things looked. Where as the other 3 series showed the TOS era looking pretty much like it did in TOS.

 

[Longinus]

I find the Romulans in Picard odd to look at but I've realized it is because the Westmore Romulans didn't just have the forehead ridges, but a variety of facial, hues? Jarok's skin has an orange hue while Vreenak's skin has a greenish tint, hinting at Romulan green blood?

And Vulcans had that too. They painstakingly reproduced the original make up formula used for Spock in ENT to use on Vulcans. It is such a shame that at some point they simply seem to have forgotten it. Now green blood realistically would probably have even more drastic effect on their hue, but it was at least an effort to make them more realistically alien.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I find the Romulans in Picard odd to look at but I've realized it is because the Westmore Romulans didn't just have the forehead ridges, but a variety of facial, hues? Jarok's skin has an orange hue while Vreenak's skin has a greenish tint, hinting at Romulan green blood?

There is an orange hued Romulan on Vashti in "Absolute Candor".

 

[Hythlodeus]

Dammit, the Trump references started early in Star Trek

 

[Longinus]

Dammit, the Trump references started early in Star Trek

That Romulan has more realistic looking hair though.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

That is a different situation The Klingons and Romulans were forced together and both effectively exiled from their societies. I doubt Romulan society as a whole would have accepted children from interspecies relations.

Commander Sela would like to have a word with you about this...

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Commander Sela would like to have a word with you about this...

I would say her father's influence and the fact that she was able to pass as a Romulan without ridges were what allowed her to attain her position.

 

[DaveyNY]

I would say her father's influence and the fact that she was able to pass as a Romulan without ridges were what allowed her to attain her position.

I'll bet Tasha was glad Sela turned out to be ridge-less.