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Somebody had a neat idea (IMO) that there were two racial groups on Vulcan and that the schism took place largely along these lines. There would be some "crossovers," naturally, explaining the smooth-headed Romulans in TOS, and any other abberations in later shows.
This scenario could open up some interesting story possibilities involving the politics of Vulcan. After all, we already know from ENT's "Stigma" and the "Awakening/Kir'shara" arc that the government had some rather...discriminatory policies, even at that late date.
On the subject of Remans, although it has not been addresses in canon, I prefer to believe they were a pre-existent indigenous race that was subjugated by the Romulans. To me, it's just beyond suspension of disbelief that such a specialized morphology could have developed within the time since the Romulans arrived in the system.
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When last seen Spock was on Romulus passing as a Romulan with no sugical alterations to his smooth-headed appearance. Similarly, the Vulcan terrorist T'Paal/Tallera who disgised herself as a Romulan in TNG: "Gambit" and she has pronounced cranial bones like most of the Romulans.
So these ridges may be just genetic differences within the Vulcans and Romulans.
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I'd have to watch the episode again, but was Spock even traveling in disguise? It seems to me that he was just hiding out with that underground group, and wasn't pretending to be anyone else. I'd think Spock would be too famous for that to work anyway.
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