I hope they do. I want to see Romulans. Maybe they will do the Enterprise approach and have them pulling the strings somehow.
The Romulan Star Empire in Star Trek: Discovery
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I hope they do. I want to see Romulans. Maybe they will do the Enterprise approach and have them pulling the strings somehow.
There's nothing preventing the Klingon characters from interacting with the Romulans.
Given what the new TPTB are doing with the Klingons the appearance of the Romulans could be very different than what we've seen before.
Wings might be interesting.
They can't make them too different from the Vulcans.
The Vulcans in Discovery appear to be identical to the previous series.
There is no way the Romulans developed the way they did in 1800 years in the Prime timeline, nevermind the Remans cropping up in about 1600, yet that star system seems to extremely accelerate the rate of evolution, or the Romulans believe in eugenics.
So, they can appear however the showrunners damn well please.
So, they can appear however the showrunners damn well please.
No they can't, if they want to keep the Romulan lore consistent to TOS
They need to keep some sort of resemblance to the Vulcans.
It already isn't. We don't have famous white actors in black face with yellow peril moustaches spouting Shakespeare, so I fully expect the Romulan starship crews to be genetically modified troops with all sorts of drastic differences.
But they won't because of the dialogue in TOS.
TOS doesn't matter to this series when necessary. Why are people still not getting this? the series is a reboot.
Not according to the producers.
It is only a visual reboot, not lore.
And lore says the Romulan resemble the Vulcans because they're descendants.
And visually they will redesign the Romulans more than the Keilvin universe did. It's already got far more alien Klingons and orange Andorians.
That wasn't their skin. It was part of the mold/plaster. We don't even know if that was meant to be Andorian. Though it probably was.
They can't visually change the Romulans without changing the Vulcans, and Vulcans look identical to the previous series.
Discovery has removed the laser weapon from the Cage era and replaced them with Phasers, if the lore is important they should be using laser pistols and traveling through the "time barrier" while James *Robert* Kirk is serving on the Farragut. Klingons looking human was a thing according to Worf in Trials and Tribulations so they should still exist visual reboot or not since DS9 said they did.
And they're using Wrath of Khan communicators, with more advanced technology (not just visual) 30 years ahead of time.
So let's not pretend this is adhereing to anything other than what they want. Romulans will look a lot cooler and different this time.
These Klingons could easily be ones who were not hit by the augment virus, since not every Klingon was infected.
They said at both Vegas and Comic-Con that this is in the Prime/TOS Timeline. This isn't just something from long before production started, they're still saying it.
So they can change the Romulans a bit, but they can't look unrelated to the Vulcans because they kept the Vulcans visually the same.
They said at both Vegas and Comic-Con that this is in the Prime/TOS Timeline. This isn't just something from long before production started, they're still saying it.
So they can change the Romulans a bit, but they can't look unrelated to the Vulcans because they kept the Vulcans visually the same.
Then why keep the Vulcans the same? Make them more alien, not just Space Elves.
They've already proven they're keeping at least one alien species identical, why can't some others like the Romulans stay the same?
Because people who aren't fans (the people they want to bring in) know what Spock looks like and will want something that "looks like Spock does". They see Romulans as separate aliens, and the series will probably follow that idea to a degree. They'll exaggerate the external differences from the Kelvin universe.
No, they aren't. "The Menagerie" canonised parts of the Cage including lasers, time barrier and so on. That's all blatantly ignored by Discovery as loudly as they can with phasers, warp drive right out of the movies etc
3/5's of Trek have confirmed the human Klingons, Discovery is treating that as bullshit and having fully alien Klingons from the get go. Bulldozing 51 years of canon and "lore" right out of the gate.
Prime Trek had Romulans who evolved into a new look and several percentages of DNA variation in less than 2000 years, so something in that universe already changed them in a short time and super accelerated the Reman evolution. The Kelvin universe had Robau recognise Romulans from Nero's appearance, implying they looked like that in 2233 in the Prime Universe.
So we already know the current production teams consider that the smallest change they can make and still have them be true to TOS lore.
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