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You guys would NOT want to read Masao's reaction when I e-mailed him a screencap of the that ship. I know we never expected for the ENT Romulan ships to be anything similar... but this looks thing looks like a destroyer counterpart to the D'deridex rather than a classic BOP predecessor.
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and I said "oh no" then I thought - YEAH! It's simplistic enough and has the old config and it nicely brings in the 'Romulan-ness' we have known (yeah it's not the white and blue and orange of TOS) but hey...
the only think I'm NOT keen about - what is it with them (Eaves?) and those BLOODY nacelle shapes... Dominion, Valdore, 1/2 a dozen generic Delta Quadrant ships.
Cool though. AND PLEASE not let us see them.
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Kirk ended (or at least set things on a path towards peace) hostilities with the Klingons, which had been going on long before he was a starship captain.
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Hostilities had lulled during TOS between the Federation and the Klingons until I think the Organia incident then things steadily went down hill dispite the Organians interference, or lack there of.
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And Picard, Sisko and Janeway generally just committed formal "acts of war" against folks who were going to have a war (or assimilation spree) anyway. Kirk is something of an exception in that he never actually pushed the Klingons over the brink or anything - the Klingons were well over that brink to begin with!
I somehow think Archer is going to fit the first category. The Romulans will be the ones to start the war, with Archer just providing a crucial excuse.
What I like the most about that retro BoP is the impulse engine, a single bright Flash Gordon nozzle at the stern of a teardrop-style Flash Gordon hull. The nacelles I could live without...
They may have had warp drive for 2000 years by this point...
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im just saying that the ship would look better if it had less in common with its 24th century counterparts and more in common with the 23rd century version. everything looks allright, except the nacelles.
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It makes me wonder if the ship in "Balance of Terror" was sporting engines reverse-engineered from human designs. (Which obviously must have some advantage, once everyone puts their heads together, since Starfleet isn't tooling around in Vulcanesque ring ships.)
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I know we never expected for the ENT Romulan ships to be anything similar... but this looks thing looks like a destroyer counterpart to the D'deridex rather than a classic BOP predecessor.
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