So I'll Ask the Niners........

[Treker]

I liked that guy from Tears of the profits.

"Really captain, I see no reason why I should sit here and allow this Klingon jackal to call me a coward"

Love the big grin he gives when Martok retorts at him. "See my point"

That is the kind of romulans I love.

"Primitive rage in his eye... Romulan zoo should have a pair"

That type of witty and arrogant pompus Romulan are my faves!!

 

[TheQman]

I liked that guy from Tears of the profits.

"Really captain, I see no reason why I should sit here and allow this Klingon jackal to call me a coward"

Love the big grin he gives when Martok retorts at him. "See my point"

That is the kind of romulans I love.

"Primitive rage in his eye... Romulan zoo should have a pair"

That type of witty and arrogant pompus Romulan are my faves!!

That's funny. That is the Romulan I was thinking of when I was trying to picture a good Romulan.

 

[Mr. Scott]

I think the Romulans were represented quite well.

In the backstory, the Romulans and the Vulcans were of one people and were very violent and cruel people. Then a great leader came and taught complete logic and a restraint of emotional state was the only way for the people to start a new path and stop their destructive ways.

The Vulcans listened, while the Romulans thought it was a bunch of B.S. (or Targ dung) and went off to their own planet, Romulas and Remas. The Romulan Star Empire was a fascist state and xenophobic. However, to sustain themselves and their large military, they had to explore and exploit different planets.

The local governmet, again was a fascist one, with a secret police force in place called the Tal Shiar (sic?). Probably, it is assumed that there were a lot of people who wanted to make drastic changes on Romulas, but could not because of the repressive social system. One problem however, was that absolutely no one could trust anyone else, and any true opposition leader would not last. This is a theme in repressive societies on Earth.

The Romulan never makes the first move, nor makes out and out threats. They wait for the other side to make the first move, even it requires tricking them to do so. They are master tricksters, and are never to be trusted. They fooled Picard a time or two. They even fooled Spock for goodness sakes. Spock is arguably the most intellegent character in all of Trekdom, and if he could be fooled anyone can. (Unification, Part 2 TNG).

Romulans are minipulative, and extremely difficult to fool. They are fascist and xenophobic. However, at the end of this chapter of the never ending Star Trek saga, the Romulans are beginning to trut humans and other aliens and are now seeing that being a part of a greater Galactic community is better than having one's little corner of it. But things and alliances shift and change in the ST Universe so who knows.

 

[Myasishchev]

I've never been entirely persuaded that the Romulans had a fascist or even undemocratic state. I mean, they had bad haircuts, sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean totalitarianism.

They obviously don't have the same personal rights that we assume are natural and inalienable, but then again, neither did the United States until 2003.

 

[RyuRoots]

There's no frame of reference to answer. We don't SEE the nuTrek-verse's Romulans even once. We see Nero and his crew who are bitter crazy Romulan miners from the 24th century.

 

[Jefferies]

To be honest, the species of Nero and his gang was pretty irrelevant to what happened in the movie. The only reason they were Romulans and not Klingons or some random made up race was that it was an angle that let them bring in Leonard Nimoy. There was nothing culturally distinct about these villains. They were just a bunch of vengeful evildoers.

 

[seigezunt]

Romulans tend to be underdeveloped

Except for those foreheads.

Glad NuTrek did away with the neanderthal brows.

 

[Hober Mallow]

So I, for one, welcome our old, calculating Romulan overlords. I could do with the head-ridge though.

I kinda wish they'd have given the Vulcans head ridges in the new movie, so that Spock's human half would be visible, and he'd visibly be marked as an outsider on both Vulcan and Earth.