- Romulan saying. (TNG: "Face of the Enemy"), Romulan society was based upon a highly structured caste system. Though Kirk realized that the Romulans would become unstoppable if they succeeded with their mining mission, the Romulans were ultimately thwarted by the Starfleet officers, who – having caused the Enterprise to self-destruct to prevent a Romulan boarding party from seizing it – proceeded to capture the Romulan ship for themselves. In an early story outline that Harve Bennett wrote for the third film, the Romulans discovered that the Genesis Planet had extraordinarily rich dilithium deposits and found Spock's coffin on the planet's surface. Writer Paul Schneider created the Romulans for the 1966 Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror". The Remans are second-, perhaps even third-class, citizens of the Romulan Empire, and work as slaves and in the mines on the dark, harsh surface of Remus. He and his fellow crew members are allowed to return as a "fair exchange" while the Senate keeps the red matter. Since the series' premiere in 1966, Gene Roddenberry and his colleagues have brought us lots of memorable recurring antagonists. However, a minority of Romulans lack these ridges, making them outwardly indi… "We have major continuity issues with them," observed Executive Producer Brannon Braga, at the end of the show's first season. (Star Trek Monthly issue 9, p. 50). The Romulans reveal that they have had colonies destroyed on their side of the border too, and the two species agree to share information on the issue in future. Another person who was there at the time was D.C. Fontana, who was present when Schneider pitched the episode to Gene Roddenberry. I wanted to give the Romulans an animal look, so we widened their nose bridge and did some interesting stuff with their brows – but nothing so extreme that you couldn't believe they were real." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 145, p. 24), In fact, just prior to the release of Star Trek Nemesis, the Romulans seemed to have disappeared. Neville Page wanted to honor that by having Nero's crew ritually scar themselves too, forming keloids reminiscent of the 'V'-ridges. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (3rd ed., p. 60)) Writing staffer Maurice Hurley, who wrote "The Neutral Zone" and devised the multi-episode arc, intended for the Romulans to engage in a major battle against a Borg scout ship in the second of the three episodes, planned for the show's second season. (Star Trek Nemesis), Human clone Shinzon, who briefly became Praetor in 2379 after a coup d'etat, on his throne, At one point in history, Romulus was a sovereign nation ruled by an Empress, as indicated by Q. They were wonderfully mysterious. [2], Initially, the alternate timeline in "Yesterday's Enterprise" incorporated a Romulan alliance with the Vulcans. He said of the restyled Romulans, "I gave them a little wedge to the center of the hair on their forehead instead of the Vulcans' straight-across bang." Play. The Romulan planetary system consists of another world, Remus, of which little is known, overall, to Federation intelligence. Soon after their emergence from a century of isolation in the mid 2260s, they had established at least two embassies with the Federation. The Tal Shiar was known for its brutal tactics, which included routine kidnapping, torture, and assassination. Place of origin: A female Romulan commander in 2268. Following comments from Jeri Taylor, this was changed to become a scene aboard a holographic simulation of the brig USS Enterprise, with only the aftermath of the battle being shown. A Cardassian embassy existed on Romulus for a time, and Elim Garak was "employed" there as a "gardener," suggesting that the two species maintained an active diplomatic relationship. 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