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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] Regarding the suggestion of BoT that Earth had no idea that vulcans were related to romulans. How likely is this? Earth had fought a war with the Romulans. It would be in the interest of Earth during the war to find out as much as they could about their enemy. In addition to the usual spying and interception of messages, this might involve examination of captured weapons and bases, physical examination of biological specimens (prisoners or dead bodies or tissue samples), and gathering intelligence from other races that had any contact with the Romulans. I suppose it's possible that the Romulans were so paranoid that they never showed themselves or had any contact with other races. I suppose that the war could have been fought only at long range, using missiles, and that no Romulan ship was ever captured (they all completely self destructed without a trace when heavily damaged), no Romulan base was ever taken, and no ground combat ever occurred. If I were a Earth or Federation scientist, I would have been looking very hard for some physical evidence of Romulan biology. Even a few cells could tell you a lot, such as genetic relationships to other races. Also, the romulans in their exodus from Vulcan, must have left some trail of artifacts all the way to Romulus. Maybe even buried bodies. Maybe they burned all the bodies and cleaned up after themselves very well. Finally, the Vulcans are supposed to be pretty close allies of Earth. In more than 200 years from first contact, after a war with an off-shoot race, after establishment of the Federation, they didn't mention anything about their relationship with the Romulans? Did the Vulcans think we would never find out? Or did they think we already knew? If they didn't tell us and we didn't know, did they think we would not be upset that they didn't tell us earlier? We they trying to protect a fragile alliance by not revealing a relationship with the enemy? Are there sections in Vulcans libraries that have signs saying "off-limits to Earthlings"? Is their relationship to the Romulans (and their uncontrolled emotions) something they are so ashamed of they never mention it? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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