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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] Do we know that Cheron was in the Earth-Romulan war? Unless I missed something (which is certainly possible, as I haven't seen many later DS9 episodes or much of Voyager), it could have been after TOS: "Balance of Terror." In TNG: "The Defector," Jarok said that it was a humiliating defeat, but he didn't say when. And even for a Vulcanoid race, two centuries seems like a long time to still be sore about it. And in TNG: "Pegasus," Picard says the Treaty of Algeron has kept peace between the Federation and the Romulan Empire for "sixty years," implying some conflict between them around 2310 or so--which is also around the date of the Tomed Incident, whatever [i]that[/i] was. (at this point I had originally written, "on the other hand, "Incident" sort of implies something less than a full scale war." But then I remembered that snatch of conversation between Garak and Bashir in DS9: "Way Of the Warrior," about the B'something Nebula Incident between the Klingons and Cardassians. You know, the "minor skirmish" that "lasted eightteen years.") The most fascinating tidbit (to me, anyway) is that the Romulan Ambassador is present when Starfleet briefs the UFP President on Operation Retrieve in [i]Star Trek VI[/i]. That implies a high degree of friendship and cooperation between the two governments. What happened between 2268 and 2293 to make [i]that[/i] possible? And what happened between then and the Romulan withdrawal? I've never been happy with the idea of the Romulan War ending in an Earth victory. Things like the Neutral Zone suggest to me a war that ended in a stalemate, or maybe a peace imposed on both sides by a third party, a la the Organians. One problem ENT is going to have is that the [i]Enterprise[/i] already has technology too advanced for the Romulan war, which was fought with "primitive atomic" weapons and crude comm systems that didn't allow for visual communication. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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