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I guess it could have. I just always got the impression that it was an event that happened a long time ago. That seems to be the implication. We know it was a preamble to war. I guess it could have been the preamble to the war with the Tzenkethi. "Salem 1" just sounds like an old, pre-federation name. Sounds like an Earth station, not a Feddie station.
That line from "Family" is cool, but i know that wasn't in the episode. Wish it had been. I believe the reference to Wesley's ancestor having been on Salem One was written in Wesley's character background at the beginning of the series. Probably having to do with the history of tragic deaths in the family.
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Just a weird thought here... what if "Bel-zon" was some twisted name the humans came up with for their Romulan enemies before they found out what their real names were? (This ignores ENT, I know...) After all, if it took Earth a hundred plus years to figure out what the Romulans looked like, how long did it take to figure out their name?
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Well.. although canon generally refuses to acknowledge it, "Romulans" doesn't sound very alien at all. The most likely explanation would be that the planets were codenamed Romulus and Remus, and because of the war those names stuck, and are still the way the Universal Translator translates them..
Except that "Minefield" (ENT) clearly showed that "Romulans" is the Vulcan name for them. But obviously "Vulcan" itself has Roman roots as well (EDIT: but Romans were influenced by the 'Apollo'-aliens.. so who knows what kind of twisted parallel development occured)
Anyway... "the Bel-zon raid" might also be the name of the raid, instead of the name of whoever was the raider. But it would be an awkward way to say things.
"Except that 'Minefield' (ENT) clearly showed that 'Romulans' is the Vulcan name for them."
And the Romulan name, for that matter. I like to think that it's just a coincidence that "Romulan" sounds so close to "Romulus", and that that's what prompted the Earth authorities to start assigning Roman-esque names to everything they found out about the Romulans.
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quote:When did we get a date for Salem 1? Why couldn't it have occured during the 25 years after the disappearence of the E-C?
We don't have a specific date but the way in which it is refered to, it's almost certainly a significant event and probably not in living memory. The more I think about it, the more I like the Izar/Axanar theory. it certainly gives us a nice explanation of certain things said in TOS.
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(EDIT: but Romans were influenced by the 'Apollo'-aliens.. so who knows what kind of twisted parallel development occured)
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