That makes no sense. If someone trespassed against US borders, I doubt they'd send scout ships. When you defend, you send battleships. We do ... as does everyone else. It's just the way you respond to crisis. Scout ships is about exploration. More over, this has happened in the past with Romulus, and they have never sent scout ships.
actually those ships in minefield are very similar to the battle ship we saw in tos. so i dont know were you got scout ships. and we dont know if it was their territory. it could have been a nice backwater world that enterprise just happened to come across at a bad time. remember the united states did a lot of bomb tests on bikini atoll.
The ship in BOT wasnt a scout ship either. It was a test bed for one and maybe two new weapons. They weren't out exploring. In fact the ship it's self might be a leftover from the Earth-Romulan War, refit with the cloaking device and the plasma weapon. The Centurion could even be a veteran of the E-R war. And given the way Vulcanoids age the Commander might have served in the war as a very young man.
Not really. And the pictures included earlier proved thus. Nerys Myk - happy birthday. That's a lot of supposition and not canon.
The ships are very similar. When it comes to the Romulan War there isn't much canon, so suppositions is what we are left with. Thanks for the birthday wishes.
To be sure, our heroes and extras in "Balance of Terror" did not seem to identify the enemy vessel by mere sight of her bows, despite the fact that she was nearly identical to the Romulan ships seen in ENT. Only the bird paint on the belly confirmed their fears that these were indeed the Romulans. So we might surmise that the design in TOS was supposed to be all-new, not seen in the old war. Scenes cut from "Balance of Terror" would confirm this, with dialogue wherein the heroes think this all-new design is the result of espionage and copying of Starfleet technologies. But then again, those scenes were cut. Apart from this, we don't know whether the ENT or TOS ships were supposed to represent regular Romulan combatant forces (albeit on special missions) or some sort of exotic mission-specific designs. Scout is as good a guess as battleship or submarine, as far as our rough analogies go. Personally, I'd like to see the various old Romulan ships overall follow a pattern of looking similar to the ENT and TOS ships but being of different sizes - much like we have seen most Klingon ships follow a pattern of a long neck plus aft-mounted wings. Objectively, the truth might be completely different. Timo Saloniemi