Romulan Lore : From Militants to Fifth Column

What's up Lore Masters,

This is continuing the Romulan Lore Series and discussing how the Romulan Star Empire became what we thought it would ultimately be.

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[rurrjh]

When Geordi was patched up, in Sickbay after in the minds eye he asked Beverly are there anymore Romulans here? ... Simon Tarses blushed

[jjmfdl]

Lore Reloaded, thank you for covering my favorite antagonistic faction with it's own series.

[archades]

I would like to point out an observation and opinion. The Vulcan ambassador that the Romulans kidnapped? When she revealed herself, she had no ridges on her forehead. At first I figured it was because she had yet to have her physiology restored. But... what if she actually were just a Vulcan? A defector. Yes, she had a Romulan name and rank. But what if those were adopted. What if the Reunification movement was just as alive and well on Vulcan as it were on Romulus?
Think about it. That may explain how the Tal Shiar was able to sink its claws into Starfleet and the Federation. Or at least create the illusion that they had spies everywhere. By hiding in plain sight...

[Plasmacore_V]

Romulans, they're so predictably treacherous.

[voiceofafreeamerica]

Honestly, I could see the Tal Shiar creating a Romulan knockoff almost as soon as Starfleet had them, but never releasing the tech to the civilians. At worse, the could have bought/stole a Ferengi holosuite.

[luckygreentiger]

I took the defector's amazement more of how closely they were able to reproduce Romulus, not necessarily the quality of the technology itself.

[KyleHillVA]

*Lore ends video with an Into the Spiderverse quote.*
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.

[chrissonofpear]

Background on Alidar Jarok, often from RPG sourcebooks lately, had him behind the Norkan colony massacre around 2307, and possibly linked to the Tomed Incident as well.

[TheMrPeteChannel]

Last time i was this early GoT was good!

[forestwells]

I would argue that in the Defector, it wasn't the technology that amazed him, but that Starfleet knew his home so well that they were able to recreate it perfectly. Considering their relations, it's a wonder that Starfleet knew anything at all about Romulan worlds, especially in enough detail to just call it up on their holodeck in perfect detail.

[MichlVal]

Just a random comment about your saying the Federation doesn't respond to the Romulans (you mentioned it a couple of times), it should be pointed out that the Federation response to this Romulan trickery wouldn't be something you would see Picard doing. It would be the Federation Secretary of State, or whatever their equivalent is, deciding how the Federation should respond. Granted, other than military strikes I don't know what those responses could be that the Romulans would care about. But considering the limited scope of the show, we wouldn't know what the Federation's response was.


Random comment, do with as you wish.

[infamouskitcat]

Not going to lie, but at 0:34 it looked like Darth Vader was on the teleporter pad. Lmao

[TimmythatSquirrel]

Can you do a video on ds9's our man Bashir love your videos

[MandalorV]

I took the jump and now by body is in a thousand pieces.

[briandavion]

could it be the tal shiar has had holodeck tech for awhile just they keep it exclusivly for themselves and few others in the empire know about it?

[csehszlovakze]

>but this is what Starfleet should be Picard the crew of the enterprise D were staring down two warbirds and [...]


"Starfleet is not a military organization, its purpose is exploration" - Picard

[sergeantassassin]

Given everything that happened post-Hobus, it's nice to see how the Romulans used to look back in the good ol' days.

[joebuddensvoicecoach]

Dont give up fam... you have a amazing work ethic! So the subscribers will come... I just wish they would come a bit quicker

[Sturmvapor]

Romulans are the best villains ever in Trek.

[FGKaye]

You're forgetting about the incident @ Galondon Kor, where the Romulans would get Intel about Geordi's Visor.