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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] I'm sure that it was just force of habit. After so many years of calling it a "warp core", it's gotta be second-nature. I agree that Cochrane probably used a fusion reactor, and probably got the M/AR idea from the Vulcans. As for the Rommies, Cargile made a comment about their being less advanced in starship tech than humans. How is this possible? They had interstellar flight 1700 years before humans had even gotten to the Moon. I'm sure they probably had warp drive, or were damn close to it by the time humans did. To expand on something, I think humans' leap from putting people in orbit (1960s) to warp drive (2060s) in only a century is uncommon. There was space travel on Vulcan in (Earth calender) the 300s. I doubt that they had warp drive until at least the 1800s, if not the 1900s. That's why they were surprised that humans achieved warp flight when they did. They had considered humans, in Troi's words, "too primitive". Now, if we assume that Vulcans took until the 1800s to invent warp drive, and we assume that the Romulans were set back a bit by their lengthy spaceflight from Vulcan to Romulus, and their lack of mental discipline (I'm sure they had a few wars to add to the setback), it is conceivable that they took a couple hundred extra years to invent warp drive. However, I'm sure they would have had it by the time of the Terro-Romulan Wars. Now, on another note, here's the story I came up w/ for the start of the wars: The Vulcans hadn't told the Terrans about the Romulans. It was an embarassing subject for them (at least as embarassed as a Vulcan can get), so they didn't bring it up. When the first Terran ship found its way to Romulus, they mistook the Romulans for Vulcans and used the Vulcan salute on them. The Romulans that they encountered decided that any friend of the Vulcans was an enemy of theirs, so they killed them. Since the Romulans were isolationists to an extent, even back then, the crude translators the Terrans had gotten from the Vulcans couldn't translate Romulan, so the misunderstanding became worse, until the Romulans blasted the Terran ship out of the sky. Now, at this time, Terrans were still a bit more inflammable than they are in Trek, so they declared war on the Romulans. They enlisted the help of their new friends, the Andorians, whom they had met through the Vulcans, and who, as we know, are admittedly warlike. The Vulcans, of course, refused to fight. This may even explain some of the distrust that humans tend to feel toward Vulcans. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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