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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x11 - "The Wolf Inside"

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bollocks - only romans could be legionaries, 'conquered nations' could serve as auxiliarii; mostly specialist stuff like cavalry - the romans were infantry (+ specialists in siege warfare) and hired anything else, like a greek navy and a 'whoever' cav.
O'RLY?
https://www.quora.com/Ancient-Rome-...s-aspired-to-be-Roman-during-the-Roman-empire
From the above:
...the first non-Roman Roman emperor was the Spaniard Trajan in 98, and in the next century there were emperors from Libya, Gaul, North Africa, Syria and the Balkans. If you wanted to be rich and powerful it made sense to dress, talk and act like a Roman: not only was that the language of power, it was also the only thing that the hundreds of different cultures in the empire had in common.
 
trajan was a roman citizen, which doesn't necessarily mean he was born in rome (rome granted citizenship quite freely)

he was born in what is now spain but he was born in a municipium (that does mean roman citizenship)
 
About the only thing I can think of would be the cloaking device.

As for the point about ex-Nazis and intelligence: I consider myself duly chastised, but my point about fascism in general stands.

As does the point about the quality of engineering in the Terran Empire. Any regime whose engineers are so sloppy as to make engines that do to people what they did to mirror Trip, probably won't get very far with the Defiant.
 
Rome did without a fire department for 200 years, because the ruling class were AFRAID that a fire department was too similar to a Malitia.

About the only thing I can think of would be the cloaking device.

As for the point about ex-Nazis and intelligence: I consider myself duly chastised, but my point about fascism in general stands.

As does the point about the quality of engineering in the Terran Empire. Any regime whose engineers are so sloppy as to make engines that do to people what they did to mirror Trip, probably won't get very far with the Defiant.

It's not that they were necessarily more advanced.

Regular NX-01 went out on a mission of peace to explore.

Mirror NX-01 went out on a mission of war to conquer.

Different tools for different missions.

Although he Vulcans held back their proprietary tech until the Coalition charter, ten years after Enterprise's launched, meanwhile Zephram took what he wanted, that the Vulcan's had, a century earlier... And could not have enslaved the Vulcans without owning comparable tech.
 
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in which way?

... i really got no clue
That's the impression I got. In the regular universe, The NX was only 3 years old, and the NX-02 had just been completed.
In the MU, they had a whole fleet of them. They conquered the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites, and have access to all of their equipment. I assume they have superior firepower. I think they had a tractor beam.

As for mirror Trip, people in the prime U get exposed to all sorts of radiation all the time, and people like Phlox develop "antidotes." Such a thing may not be a priority in the MU.
 
Well we all know how doing without a fire department did, didn't Rome burn in a day. A fire department might have come in handy. ;)
They actually did have something like a fire department, the Vigiles. But the way the city was build, even a modern fire deparment probably would not have done much good.
 
They eventually did have a fire department yes, but the founding of their first fire department was 200 years after it was first suggested to the Senate, because it looked too much like an armed strike force inside the walls of room, which was against the rules.
 
That's the impression I got. In the regular universe, The NX was only 3 years old, and the NX-02 had just been completed.
In the MU, they had a whole fleet of them. They conquered the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites, and have access to all of their equipment. I assume they have superior firepower. I think they had a tractor beam.

As for mirror Trip, people in the prime U get exposed to all sorts of radiation all the time, and people like Phlox develop "antidotes." Such a thing may not be a priority in the MU.

Yeah, the MU Starfleet of the 2150s had tractor beam technology. In some ways the Terrans were more advanced than humans of the same century in our universe while in others they were more regressive and primitive. And there were at least nine NX-class starships in the Terran Starfleet by 2155 while in our universe we had two in service with the third possibly underway at the time the series ended.
 
Haven't read through the thread. Excellent episode. Looking forward to the arc.

All hail Empress Georgiou!

Oh, and I'll take MIrror Sarek if I can't have Mirror Spock, I guess.

10/10.
 
Thinking about it, being a TE captain, and having to constantly worry about assassination, having a Kelpian as a slave makes a ton of sense. Their "danger sense" can help ensure that you keep on living.
 
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