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...Which, if TPTB wanted to exploit it, would be another nice real-world parallel for the 2000s audiences. The Romulan Star Empire could be like North Korea, within striking distance of Seoul so that no matter how mighty an army goes against the North, its victory will be pyrrhic at best.
The "Lost Years" novels all sound really promising. Anybody read "Serpents Among the Ruins" yet?
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The impact would be more dangerous and important if the Romulans had just revealed their new WOMD. Then the Feds would get real serious about ending the war, especially due to the proximity of Earth to Romulus.
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I just got "Serpents..." yesterday, and I'm about halfway through it right now.
David George's writing style is kind of heavy-handed in places, and the prologue is almost unreadable thanks to all his alliteration. Once it picks up, though, it turns into a pretty durn good story. Let me know if you want spoilers, and I'll start a new thread.
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quote:Originally posted by djewell: They were probably desperate, though I couldn't imagine why. If they really really really wanted to end it, then they would have given it up like that *snaps*. I wonder what the Romulans lost in their negotiations.
Romulans have to wear 10 lb weights in those silly shoulderpads and sport Moe haircuts as long as the treaty is in effect.
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Finished "Serpents" last night. The reason given for the Treaty of Algeron is plausible enough, although the mechanism by which cloaks tie into it all is a bit convoluted.
George sure gets mileage out of the events. A more economical writer could tell the story with a third of the page count. And George trips on his cleverness once or twice - like when saying that Romulan ships are powered by quantum singularities. Sure, they might have been, even in 2311. But nobody in Starfleet ought to know that. Well, people like Harriman and Vaughn might. But not the entire E-B crew.
It warms the heart to see that George held the ST Star Charts in one hand while typing with the other, BTW. And he's not just copying: he added the whole Foxtrot thing, when the Charts only have Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon... Clever boy.
One hell of a turn on the concept of the Tomed Incident, really. And frighteningly plausible, as long as we buy into the concept of Starfleet having James Bond style superagents capable of pulling that off.
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