War with Romulus?

[Captrek]

A common assumption seems to be that the destruction of Vulcan won’t bring the Federation and Romulus into conflict because the Romulan Empire had no more to do with the destruction of Vulcan than Spain did with the USS Maine or Iraq did with 9/11. Evidently, that assumption doesn’t govern how the real world works. Imagine that, two centuries from now, people are still basically people and the likes of William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch are still at it. The Andorians and Tellerites are always spoiling for a fight, and the moderating influence of the Vulcans has been all but lost. War seems almost inevitable.

Will this be the case in XII?

 

[M'Sharak]

Will this be the case in XII?

I don't know. Besides the in-universe fact that the Romulans are typically reluctant to do anything hurriedly (including allowing themselves to be drawn into a major conflict,) I'd think the filmmakers would want to do a story not involving Romulans next, possibly holding them in reserve for the projected third movie. They might get a passing mention in the next movie, but I think I'd expect the main focus to be on someone or something else. I could be wrong about that, though.

 

[jgdst]

I agree with M'Sharak. The Romulans are likely not to be used again in the next film, and also it's made out to be quite explicit that Nero doesn't represent the Romulan Star Empire, so politically speaking, sparking a war with the Romulans over the actions of a rogue individual (and one from the future no less) would neither be the logical nor legal course of action. At least, I think so.

To be drawn into a war would be akin, in a way, to the Xindi pre-emptively attacking Earth in Enterprise.

Also, considering the losses Starfleet took at Vulcan, I think regardless of how compassionate they're feeling at any given moment, they'd still have to take into account that their numbers were down. I can imagine it being a frosty atomsphere between the two empires, but nothing leading towards a conflict.

 

[UFO]

I can imagine it being a frosty atomsphere between the two empires, but nothing leading towards a conflict.

I'm not sure why the Federation/Romulan relationship will improve that much!

 

[jgdst]

^Lol! You make an excellent point

 

[kkozoriz1]

The Federation is just biding their time until the "supernova" takes care of the Romulan problem for them.

 

[FarStrider]

Personally I think that a war between the Federation and the Romulans is unlikely. . . Consider: Ambassador Spock is in a position of great influence with the Vulcan people now (after all, he found them a new world); he has spent the last decade or so of his life trying to reunify the Vulcans and Romulans, his guilt at the destruction of both Romulus in his timeline and Vulcan in this one, and the fact the Vulcan population is decimated will probably drive the Vulcans to reach out to the Romulans.

I'd say that if anyone is going to go to war with the Romulans it would be the Klingons. . . the loss of 47 ships would be just the sort of thing that Klingon honor would want to avenge. . . I'd be looking for mentions of that in the background of the next movie. . .

~FS