Very much agreed. And I accept this take on it more since as far as I'm concerned ENT is an alternate timeline anyway.I liked Diane Duane' description of the Earth/Romulan War in "The Romulan Way" where she described it as lasting for 25 years.
I think we have to assume he's exactly correct about it being not a day short of 101 years.
As much as I love Duane's Rihannsu novels, her interpretations of the war's duration are fundamentally flawed because they don't even agree with what was established in "Balance of Terror."Very much agreed. And I accept this take on it more since as far as I'm concerned ENT is an alternate timeline anyway.I liked Diane Duane' description of the Earth/Romulan War in "The Romulan Way" where she described it as lasting for 25 years.
but, why would the Romulans retreat behind a Neutral Zone if they had a stand off or even won?
no, Earth and it's allies have to have won.
my take (seen in my Romulan War fan-fic series) is that Earth was essentially abandoned by the Coalition to start with, although the Vulcans provided some material support - helping Earth create some deep-space stations for resupplying the ships further out - before the Andorian colony Weytahn was attacked and they sent a small force to supplement the Earth forces and likewise the Tellarites...
Like I said, we should forget it was called the "Earth-Romulan War" and just call it the "Romulan War", since it doesn't make sense anymore that Earth did all this stuff on its own. Just like we should forget Spock talking about "Atomic" (Not even Nuclear) weapons.
No, the “over a century ago” comes right from Spock's exposition at the top of the episode, in which he explains the war for all the people in the audience who weren't there earlier.
In what sense? The Fiat G.55, Macchi 205 and the Reggiane 2005 has maximum speed ranging from 380 mph to 420 mph. This is clearly inferior to allies planes like the Hawker Tempest V, the Mustang, P-47N, and the F4U-4 (all are capable of 430+ mph).
In the case of ships the Vittorio Veneto is certainly no faster than the Iowas.
But, why would the Romulans retreat behind a Neutral Zone if they had a stand off or even won?
There's that Romulan admiral in TNG who makes reference to the "humiliating defeat at the Battle of Cheron" as well.
Though from what I recall of "BOT" it was mostly ship to ship battles in "open space" with no attacks on planetary targets.
Blish based his adaptations on early script drafts and there were inevitable variations. But the fact is nothing in Blish's adaptation of BOT contradicts the aired episode. And he said the war ended senty-five years before BOT. Nothing wrong with that.As much as I love Duane's Rihannsu novels, her interpretations of the war's duration are fundamentally flawed because they don't even agree with what was established in "Balance of Terror."Very much agreed. And I accept this take on it more since as far as I'm concerned ENT is an alternate timeline anyway.I liked Diane Duane' description of the Earth/Romulan War in "The Romulan Way" where she described it as lasting for 25 years.
Given that she wrote the novel in the days before the episodes were readily available on VHS or DVD, she was forced to use James Blish's adaptation of "BOT" as a source, and Blish had mistakenly said that the war ended fifty years prior to the episode, not "over a hundred."
But that said Duane's details do stray into incorrect deductions as far as I'm concerned.
And he said the war ended senty-five years before BOT. Nothing wrong with that.
No, not really. Spock's exact words in "BOT" were:The Earth/Romulan war lasts twenty-five years and it was a century ago.
Did it start 125 years and end 100 years ago?
Did it start 100 years ago and end 75 years ago?
Did it start about 113 years ago and end around 88 years ago?
See what I mean? There's room for interpretation.
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