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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] I have heard a lot of theories regarding whether the Romulans actually had warp drives prior to BoT. It makes sense to me that the Bird-of-Prey we see in that episode was warp-capable, but was running at impulse power because the cloaking device drew so much power that they could not go into warp. It's possible that they were hoping to withdraw from the sensor range of the Enterprise before disengaging the cloak and using the warp drives. If their primary power source was a fusion generator, rather than a matter/antimatter reactor, this lends credence to the theory that there was just not enough power to operate both at the same time. Just like submarines during WW II were (usually) much faster on the surface than they were when submerged, the Romulans may have felt that their best strategy for escape lay in remaining concealed until they could decloak and make a run for it. Judging by the events of the episode, that makes sense. Since the romulans' ancestors left Vulcan approximately 2 millennia ago, they could very well have used sleeper ships (as in "Space Seed") that accelerated to high sublight velocities, then coasted to their destination. It is also possible that the (eventual) Romulans ran into one of those mysterious plot twists that allowed so many human colonists to arrive at destinations far beyond their projected range and well ahead of schedule. One theory that has been proposed is that the Romulans did not originally possess warp drives, but had a good theoretical knowledge of how they might work. Perhaps they already used something that harnessed warp fields to enable them to travel at extremely high sublight velocities without incurring excessive time dilation effects, and only needed a working model of a warp drive to examine, to realize that their theoretical faster-than-light drive might actually work. I expanded upon this theory myself in the <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/VLV4.htm" target-_blank>Fourth Report</A> in VIVA LAS VEGAS. As far as the peace treaty being negotiated by subspace radio, I am uncertain. I haven't seen BoT in a long while, and thought they negotiated the peace treaty by ordinary radio. The theory that subspace radio technology was present, but too bulky and power-consuming for installation aboard starships makes sense. Otherwise, why didn't the Archon or Horizon have it aboard? --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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