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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Actually, the weapons the Enterprise uses could well be "atomic". Even the weapons Kirk's ship used could be "atomic", just not "primitive atomic", and the semantic requirements would still be met. Introduce the phase pistol to a 1930s or 1950s scifi reader, and he'll go "ahh, an atomic blaster!"... And it seems doubtful the limitation on visuals was a technological one. Spock's run-on sentence on what was different back then leaves open the more realistic possibility that the Romulans simply refused to acknowledge the calls. Just like they did in "Minefield". Good point about Cheron dating, though. No canon source pegs it as a RW event. And Kirk appeared unfamiliar with planet Cheron in "Let that... Battlefield", which would be VERY odd if a famous battle site of that name already existed (never mind if the battle site wasn't actually a planet, the similarity in names should have sent Kirk speculating instead of just staring numbly). Clearly, some sort of "my enemy's enemy" I-rub-yours-you-rub-mine arrangement was in place in ST6:TUC. Noncanon sources speak of a Klingon-Romulan alliance during TOS, but canon doesn't mention that. Instead, it seems there was a Romulan-Fed alliance in the 2290s, and perhaps even earlier on... Until the Romulan instinct for backstabbing got the better of them. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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