No Romulan voice on DS9

[t_smitts]

There are a couple of Romulans that could have worked, for me, the first one I'm thinking of is the Romulan who was trapped in that planet with Geordi. the survivor of the 2 man spy ship/scout ship that crashed. it would have been a nice throw back to have him show up, now much higher in rank, and no so distrusting of humans, but still fully Romulan. I think the internal conflict of having trusted a human, a blind human, to survive, against the "don't trust the Federation" party line in the Romulan Military.

the MAJOR character I would have loved to see would have been the return of Tomalok. yes, he was busy with Babylon 5 and I love his character there, but come on, he faced off against Picard enough in the early years that a return of that character would have had a strong reaction. Seeing Fleet Actions there Sisko, Ross, Martok and Tomalok planned attacks would have been a treasure..

*Ahem*

It's Tomalak.

Actually, from what I've read, Andreas Katsulas didn't like playing the character in person because he then had to be aware of all his movements and ticks and such. He was apparently happier when the character was just a face on a viewscreen.

I personally would've just kept the character of T'Rul around. I liked the idea of a Romulan on the bridge, just as we had a Klingon on the bridge seven years prior. I could understand if they felt a character wasn't working, but it seems like they didn't even try.

 

[Andrews]

I thought this was DS9's biggest failed opportunity. I think a Romulan ambassador type character would have gave the show more depth when the Romulans become a focal point in the Dominion War.