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Uh, a good point. The assassins weren't specified as Klingons immediately, just as "BoP operators". The deductive leap to them being Klingons followed pretty soon thereafter, though.
Then again, Romulans do NOT have a Bird of Prey in the canonical universe. In TOS, they had ships with birds of prey painted on them, but the ships themselves were never referred to as Birds of Prey in the two relevant episodes ("Balance of Terror" and "The Deadly Years"). And the TNG vessels are known as Warbirds. In contrast, the Klingon ship was explicitly called a BoP when introduced. So perhaps saying "BoP" is identical with saying "Klingon small cloakship" after all?
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Or not so small, since the K'Vort is a BoP, too...
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"Canon to the right of them, canon to the left of them, canon in front of them volleyed and thundered." - me
(Note: There are no spelling errors in the above quote)
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It's a joke. CERTAIN people, who shall remain nameless, are obsessed with canon, that being those things which are considered "real" in the Trek universe. The quote (which is from "The Charge of the Light Brigade", in case you're wondering) was a reference to the Crimean war. Your mistake is to confuse "canon" the adjective with "cannon" the noun, which is a weapon.
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Am I the only one who thinks that the idea of the Romulans not having warp drive in TOS is 100% stupid?
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Didn't we have a thread about that a while back? I think we decided that they did...
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There was a thread about it? Okay, I won't bother starting another one then.
But what was the outcome? Did everyone think that they must have had warp (or some form of FTL drive), or that they must have just spent years travelling place to place, going "boo", and then spent years getting back?
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I think we decided that they had to have warp, but just ran it off an inefficient power source.
------------------ Pilot: You're sure they were Americans, eh? Fraser: They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns. Pilot: Americans it is. - "due South"
------------------ "If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would've been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move." - Spike, BtVS
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You know, I always thought porridge tasted like jet fuel ...
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That's because your taste-buds have been destroyed from drinking jet fuel, obviously.
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There was a novel way back when which stated that the Romulan "birds of prey" were not equipped with warp drive, but were shuttled from place to place aboard a larger carrier that was. (Yes, I know it's non-canon)
The 'pedia also mentions in the DS9 ep "Homefront" that the Romulan wars reached Earth, sorta like the Earth-Minbari War. First of all, I don't remember anyone in the show ever making that statement, and if the ships didn't have warp drive, then it would have been impossible anyway.
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