Not every romulan lives on Ni'var, probably some that wanted to reunify moved, not everyone did. there is probably still a healthy population in whatever sequal state to the empire is.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 3x07 - "Unification III"
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Only a few of the Romulans have been saved from the supernova, they must be a small minority on the formerly Vulcan planet.
David Cronenberg's character made it clear that the Federation had quite a bit of "multiverse" contact after the TNG era. I wouldn't be surprised if they chatted up the Kelvin Timeline and learned what happened to Spock, although it's possible by the 32nd century like the Mirror universe the "distance" between universes now makes a crossing less likely.
There were a lot of Romulans running around in Picard, enough to make up a Romulan Free State, including a fleet of 218 warbirds called up on short notice all just to bombard one planet.
That's a bit of an insulting question to ask, TBH.
Just because I critique the various eras of Trek doesn't make me any less of a fan. I want Trek to be the best it can be. Critique doesn't not always equate to hatred or dislike.
There's some of Berman-era Trek I like, some of this current era (love love Lower Decks). You can't asses someone's complete taste by just a handful of posts in a single thread.
Nor do you have to like it all to be a fan. You can like a piece of it, all of it, or just a single movie and still be a Trek fan.
The emotional response rings false to me and a means to manipulate my emotions as a viewer. One the show relies on far too much that when there is crying it no longer has impact. For me.
If it works for you, then it works for you. Doesn't for me. And I don't want my opinion to take away any pleasure anyone gets out of the show.
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They never gave a number.
Also don't forget the population on colony worlds, starbases, starships.
Yes, but do you realize that each time someone makes the crossing it automatically creates a new timeline? their number must have grown exponentially.
I think we can safely assume that it was a small minority.
Romulus most likely wasn't their only planet.
They're a minority. Vulcans had been in space for millennia yet only ten thousand survived the destruction of Vulcan.
The Romulan supernova thing is a bit of a mess. We have to assume the Romulan government itself classified the destruction of its sun up until the end to prevent panic, explaining how Nero wouldn't know until it was too late.
But wouldn't the removal of the Senate and Praetor raise suspicions? Did they keep holograms or something to take their place?
We already know that Spock promised to save the Romulan people with whatever he was trying to do with red matter (apparently destroy Romulus' only sun I guess...), and Nero knew about that--so he had to have had at least some notice before the actual Romulus destruction. But why in the world did Nero, who had a massive starship, not evacuate his wife on said starship?
In fact, this was a problem even before Picard, and the tie-in comics gave some bizarre reason that Nero's pregnant wife refused to give birth on his starship for some reason even knowing full well the danger. At which point you would think Nero would have to conclude that it was his wife's own stupidity that is to blame for her death, not Spock.
But wouldn't the removal of the Senate and Praetor raise suspicions? Did they keep holograms or something to take their place?
We already know that Spock promised to save the Romulan people with whatever he was trying to do with red matter (apparently destroy Romulus' only sun I guess...), and Nero knew about that--so he had to have had at least some notice before the actual Romulus destruction. But why in the world did Nero, who had a massive starship, not evacuate his wife on said starship?
In fact, this was a problem even before Picard, and the tie-in comics gave some bizarre reason that Nero's pregnant wife refused to give birth on his starship for some reason even knowing full well the danger. At which point you would think Nero would have to conclude that it was his wife's own stupidity that is to blame for her death, not Spock.
When was that established? IIRC, he was just lieutenant and on his first deep space assignment. In fact, the XO on the Farragut was the one who commended Lt. Kirk's action .
He only made her acting 1st officer until he can find someone else.
He must be unhappy with all these other poor bridge officers
It's a way to give Wiseman more to do. Frankly her role has been nebulous since becoming an officer.
Nah, just the spore drive part.
Why? Where is it established she was in an alternate timeline?
They were also not very expansionist.
Because they altered future history after she went back to the control destroyed future. Unless her Red Angel suit protected her from the changes in the timeline.
yet we never hear of these planets only of small colonies, sparsely populated.
Just because we don't hear about them doesn't mean they don't exist. They're an expansionist empire with large areas of space.
I think if you go back and read what you wrote a little closer, you might not be as indignant about my question.
I wasn’t trying to assess your tastes. I was asking you a genuine question. I’m sorry if it was insulting to you. I think it was fair.
The last time we saw her she was out of that suit.
One would think these "huge" planets would give shelter to a few refugees instead of them having to go to desolate places...
The Picard tie-in material said the harmful radiation from the supernova would affect not just the Romulan system, but other systems in the Romulan empire after it travels several light years in a few years' time.
Spock's black hole can't magically pull back all that harmful radiation after the supernova already exploded. We might have to assume that a bunch of other Romulan systems were affected too, resulting in their sorry state in Picard.
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