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Y'know, that may be an important point. Romulans are apparently very suspicious (in the TNG era, anyway). And we know that Spock is relatively famous (or infamous), dating all the way back to "The Enterprise Incident."
Shouldn't SOMEONE have recognized him? Spock was apparently walking around in public for a week or two, maybe more. And I don't believe that he had the hood on all the time -- like in that initial surveillance image. Shouldn't at least SOME local Romulan security guy/snitch with a "perverse" fascination for things Federation/Vulcan have noticed this guy?
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hey, if a Galaxy class starship can be destroyed by a 20 year old BOP, then Spock can walk around unnoticed on Romulus.
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Regarding the ridges, the different subsections of humanity have different bone structures. So its no inconcieveable that the Romulans are also racially different from the Vulcans. And thus have a slightly different appearance.
As an extension of this, we know that the Romulans are warlike (and racially prejudiced), and thus may have taken slaves with them on their journey to found a new empire. The Remans themselves may be another race from Vulcan.
The Romulans then dumped the excess population of slaves on Remus. This would give them a 'homeland', whilst keeping a ready supply of labour on hand within the Romulan system. Thus accounting for their subserviance, and their similar appearance.
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The only problem is that the assumption has long been that the Vulcan/Romulan split was philosophical and socio-political, and not divided along racial lines.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: The only problem is that the assumption has long been that the Vulcan/Romulan split was philosophical and socio-political, and not divided along racial lines.
Well, it's been a stated fact on numerous occasions in TNG that Romulans are genetically different than Vulcans. In fact, as far back as TOS "The Enterprise Incident," scanners could distinguish between the lifesigns of the two.
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Well, it's conceivable that the majority of the members of one race could also be the majority of the proponents of a particular philosophy...
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Depending on the number of proto-Romulans that left Vulcan 2000 years ago, the genetic differences between Romulans and Vulcans in the 24th c could be enormous. Whenever small groups are isolated, interbreed, and establish a population, genes that were at very low frequency in the original population have a much higher frequency and become more "important." (The island effect) If the proto-Romulans were a oppressed minority group that had a slight racial difference from the Vulcan race, the racial difference could become more pronounced through isolation after emigration from Vulcan. Let's say that the original Vulcan population had a range of forehead ridges from completely human smooth to something looking like vulcans but that most people had fairly smooth foreheads. If the proto-Romulan group happened to have a higher number of people with more pronounced ridges (either by chance or by racial differences), the resulting Romulan population would naturally have more pronounced than Vulcans.
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But he's not broody and handsome and wearing poofy hair gel.
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But that's the Master! Not to be confused with The Master, The Master, or indeed, the Master.
If I was clever, I'd make links to each of those individual masters that I was referring to. But I'm not, so you'll just have to guess.
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