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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 1987571" data-attributes="member: 18280">If we assume for a moment that there is some continuity in Star Trek history, then the biggest question must be related to the "cloaking device."  The cloaking devices (Suliban and Romulan) seen in Enterprise must be irrelevant to better sensors, or Kirk and Spock would not be surprised to discover that the Romulans have a cloaking device in Balance of TerrorAnother question would be why the Romulans fought the Romulan War using primitive nuclear weapons, when it is clear that they have better weapons capability.  Hopefully, we will see in future episodes that nuclear weapons are, in fact, what they have stockpiled.  This would make Earth technology in some ways superior to Romulan standard fare....but it would also make Archer pretty hot to aquire shields from his allies.As far as warp technology goes, though, TOS made it fairly obvious that the Romulans had warp technology, but that their current cloaking device did not work at warp speeds, quite likely because of its energy requirements.  Scotty said that the Romulans were relying on impulse power; to my recollection he did not say that the Romulans were limited to impulse power.  The simple facts that(1)  The Vulcans had warp drive when they encountered Zephram Cochrane, and(2)  The Romulans were capable of moving from Vulcan to Romulus implies that the Romulans had warp capability long before humans were players in the galactic scene.Far easier to assume that the cloaking technology we are seeing in Enterprise is Mark I technology, which is made obsolete long before TOS (we ought to be seeing Reed making weapons systems modifications that allow "cloaked" Romulan ships to be targetted -- they have the Suliban shuttle; they currently have the ability to examine a Romulan ship from the inside....how much information does it require?).  Mark II cloaking technology requires a greater energy output, and prevents using a warp core at the same time.  Mark III cloaking technology is seen in the Orginal Series movies.  Mark IV allows you to fire while cloaked.This is actually a fairly easy problem to retcon.RC</blockquote>

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