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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Futurama Guy: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: I liked how Hoshi heard "Romolan" - i.e. you hear of Romulus and Remus or Romolo and Remus. What is the origin of the two types of names - just translation? [/QUOTE]Whoa, whoa...you said 'Remus' twice and I dont ever recall 'Romolo' from anything before. Is that some sort of Romulan chocolate covered carmel candy?? [QUOTE] So what is wrong with my suggestion that the Romulans had been forbidden cloak technology since the end of the E-R war? [/QUOTE]How would the Federation prevent them from building the technology? The NZ was established and obviously there was no occupation of the Rom Emp so there is no way to prevent the Romulans from creating such a device. The Treaty of Algeron forbid the Federation from creating a cloak, but that obviously didnt stop them from making it. [QUOTE] They could have been suprised/lollygagged at the fact that none of them would have seen Romulan cloaking before/or that it hadn't been seen in use for over 100 years or that they were shocked to see it at all? [/QUOTE]I kind of thought that once, but upon reviewing "Bal of Terr.." you really don't get that brand of shockvalue from their conversation regarding the Romulans or the cloak. The Romulans were simply a mystery. Stiles was, at least, aware of their ship design, but I believe Spock said that cloaking was "theoretical". Now unless you just want to go with the idea that everyone can not know everything about the practicality of cloaking technology (as perhaps they did not have access to the blueprints or technology for that matter) so therefore Spock may need to plead ignorance to a technology that is virtually or completely nonexistance to Federation science. Considering how Stiles seemed to be the only one even remotely aware of what a Romulan ship probably looks like, then information in that area seems to be sketchy. [QUOTE] Maybe Romulan cloaking technology was kept a secret by the Romulans by the war and after it? Thus most (maybe only Ent) ever see a Romulan actually cloak/uncloak? [/QUOTE]I highly doubt this. The Romulans certainly didnt seem to worry about the Enterprise witnessing their ships cloaking or decloaking, otherwise they would have simply decloaked on the farside of the planet and approached in a manner that would suggest they didnt have cloaking tech. All they cared about was that Enterprise got out of their system. I think cloaking technology is the essence of the Romulans in everything we know of them, and I am sure that that is a definative advanage for them tactically, both offensively and defensively. Once the Romulans lost the war they probably began one of their first bouts of isolation in the face of a new more powerful enemy than themselves (the Federation). They would reappear in the 2260s once they developed new, more powerful weapons, such as plasma torpedoes+cloak to test their "enemies". They formed an alliance with the Klingons along the way, did some technology swapping for a while, then went back into isolation by 2311 and became bitter enemies with the Klingons in the meantime (probably once they acquired what they needed to continue in the advance of their civilization). Finally they would reemerge in the 2360s to the rest of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants as a major force, as they once again developed a new, more powerful ships and technology. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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