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The Romulan Star Empire always sounded interesting to me, from the first time I heard it on TOS. I would also like to have seen them portrayed as they were in Balance of Terror, honorable people bound by duty to serve leaders who were imperfect. In BoT, Romulans were people I could respect, even though there goals were much different from the Federation. Later Trek reduced them to conniving cronies not worthy of respect. I always thought it was a missed opportunity that TNG never took them back to what could have been.

agreed about BoT. but the Enterprise Incident didn't treat them too shabbily, right?
They let a chick run the ship & look what happened.
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Just kidding... and now I'm running to avoid whatever object you are currently throwing at me!:guffaw:"Serpentine, serpentine!" -Lightning McQueen
 
The Romulan Star Empire always sounded interesting to me, from the first time I heard it on TOS. I would also like to have seen them portrayed as they were in Balance of Terror, honorable people bound by duty to serve leaders who were imperfect. In BoT, Romulans were people I could respect, even though there goals were much different from the Federation. Later Trek reduced them to conniving cronies not worthy of respect. I always thought it was a missed opportunity that TNG never took them back to what could have been.

agreed about BoT. but the Enterprise Incident didn't treat them too shabbily, right?
They let a chick run the ship & look what happened.
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Just kidding... and now I'm running to avoid whatever object you are currently throwing at me!:guffaw:"Serpentine, serpentine!" -Lightning McQueen

had a feeling you were gonna say sump'n like that!! :klingon:
 
They're all kind of cool.

Terran Empire and First Federation sound best though.
United Federation of Planets and Romulan STAR Empire also sound good.
 
The Romulan Star Empire always sounded interesting to me, from the first time I heard it on TOS. I would also like to have seen them portrayed as they were in Balance of Terror, honorable people bound by duty to serve leaders who were imperfect. In BoT, Romulans were people I could respect, even though there goals were much different from the Federation. Later Trek reduced them to conniving cronies not worthy of respect. I always thought it was a missed opportunity that TNG never took them back to what could have been.
I think they improved the Romulans especially in late TNG and DS9. They were more interesting and some Romulans managed to prove themselves honorable. Even Worf said so.
 
The only time Worf called any Romulan "honourable" was in Nemesis, in referance to the Romulans who helped them fight Shinzon.
 
Well, BoT DID say that Romulans were believed to be warlike, cruel and treacherous...the implication in that episode alone was that Romulans like Decius were the majority.
 
i've alway wondered why they used so few forms of government. there never was a commonwealth, kingdom, republic, principality, despotate, and nothing with the term 'free' in the title.
 
i've alway wondered why they used so few forms of government. there never was a commonwealth, kingdom, republic, principality, despotate, and nothing with the term 'free' in the title.
Few? The kind of major ones have a Federation, two Empires, a Union, a Confederacy, an Alliance, a Third Republic, a Hegemony, an Assembly, a Dominion, two Collectives, a Sodality, Nineteen Tribes, a Hierarchy, a Cabal, and a Council.
 
agreed about BoT. but the Enterprise Incident didn't treat them too shabbily, right?
They let a chick run the ship & look what happened.
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Just kidding... and now I'm running to avoid whatever object you are currently throwing at me!:guffaw:"Serpentine, serpentine!" -Lightning McQueen

had a feeling you were gonna say sump'n like that!! :klingon:
I gotta be me. At least, when I'm a smartypants I keep it clean.:techman:
IRL, I am very much a believer in EQUAL rights for men and women. It comes from watching my mother- the manager- make less than her assistant manager, back in the 1970s... because "He's a man and needs to make more because he has a family to support". Meanwhile Mom was raising 4 kids by herself, but that didn't count?!
 
yes, you do keep it clean, Sector 7... can't you teach those dudes in TNZ a thing or two?! ;)

say, didn't the Italians give women pay for housework?

back OT: I love The Borg Collective and The Q Continuum.
 
i've alway wondered why they used so few forms of government. there never was a commonwealth, kingdom, republic, principality, despotate, and nothing with the term 'free' in the title.
Few? The kind of major ones have a Federation, two Empires, a Union, a Confederacy, an Alliance, a Third Republic, a Hegemony, an Assembly, a Dominion, two Collectives, a Sodality, Nineteen Tribes, a Hierarchy, a Cabal, and a Council.

'third republic'? you forgot 'Consortium', 'Coalition' and in the novels, there is another Republic, The Thallonian Republic which replaced the defunct Thallonian Empire. and the Romulans fractured and became the RSE and the Imperial Romulan State.
 
i've alway wondered why they used so few forms of government. there never was a commonwealth, kingdom, republic, principality, despotate, and nothing with the term 'free' in the title.
Few? The kind of major ones have a Federation, two Empires, a Union, a Confederacy, an Alliance, a Third Republic, a Hegemony, an Assembly, a Dominion, two Collectives, a Sodality, Nineteen Tribes, a Hierarchy, a Cabal, and a Council.

'third republic'? you forgot 'Consortium', 'Coalition' and in the novels, there is another Republic, The Thallonian Republic which replaced the defunct Thallonian Empire. and the Romulans fractured and became the RSE and the Imperial Romulan State.
The Third Republic of Bajor. And thanks for the spoiler.
 
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