Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars

[Darth K'Trava]

My lack of Trek interest of late

All I can say is "meh".

I've all but given up on the franchise, and this news continues to push me in that direction.

As have I. And Trek was what got me first into any sort of SF fandom (Starfleet International) and where I am now. I've even mostly given up costuming as a Klingon due to both lack of interest and time (now gaming every weekend).

 

[Mark]

The Romulan Wars are tipped to be the subject of the next Star Trek feature film.

That should make for a good premise.

Enterprise executive producer Brannon Braga reportedly told the Star Trek Communicator that the series may not be able to feature the Romulan Wars because of a possible clash with the upcoming movie.

Makes sense.

"It's certainly one of the things that we've been discussing," Braga reportedly said. "But there's also a prequel feature in development regarding the Romulan Wars, so we might have to stay away from that." In the same magazine, franchise head honcho Rick Berman said Trek XI would be set before the time of Kirk, but would not be connected with Enterprise.

So, post-Enterprise (series) but pre-ST:TOS. That could run through a trilogy of movies if they do it right, IMO. If they did a trilogy, they could do them all together and bring them out back-to-back-to-back ALA LotR, saving some money on the budget of each, locking in some actors to a solid story line, and making a more cohesive three movie set than they could do if they tried to do them every two or three years as they've done in the past.

The first sighting of the Romulans came in the second-season episode, "Minefield", in which the NX-01 inadvertantly strayed into Romulan territory. According to established Star Trek lore, the Romulan Neutral Zone was established in 2160 after a long war between Earth and the Romulans. With "Zero Hour" taking place in 2154, the Romulan Wars could conceivably take place during Enterprise's run.

Interesting, but I think the "Building the Federation" arc that a lot of fans have been hoping for would be best.

Braga also discussed the storylines in development for Enterprise's fourth season, including the return of the Temporal Cold War. "One thing we're discussing is possibly blowing the lid off the Temporal Cold War once and for all," he reportedly said. "That's probably something we'll do in this first storyline. I can't say that for sure, because we're just getting into it. But I'd really like to resolve that and put a cap on it. It would be a nice thing to do after three seasons of teasing it along."

Yup. Time to finish it up and move on through the rest of the series with some of what most of us have wanted. It's been interesting but it needs to find some resolution.

The foundation of the Federation could also start to figure heavily in the series. "There are going to be some major interstellar events and conflicts happening that could involve the forming of the federation. We're going to see more of what's going on back at Earth. We might see something dealing with the Eugenics Wars."

I think the Eugenics Wars would be better for a film, perhaps post Enterprise and something for this group of character to become involved, five or six years from now after the series has concluded. This way they could build the Federation through the end of the series and then have a nice big threat to it and earth for the first movie with this cast, which I think has shown themselves to be fairly strong right out of the box. Though many people have had their complaints about the story arc and the producers, I've seen very few complaints about the cast.

 

[Express]

Romulan Wars could be interesting, but are going to use the 60's Kirk head CG implanted on a modern body double? Ive heard rumors of such sheningans..and I shudder.

 

[Eternalknight]

Kirk wouldn't have been born during the Romulan Wars, so I can't see why they would do this.

 

[Volaran]

Weren't Khan's Eugenics Wars in the 1990s in the Trek-verse?

 

[Hand of Evil]

There was nothing wrong with the birth of the Federation idea, the problem is that they did not do it, Brandon and Rick took it into a timeline show and distanted themselves from the core of the ST myth. Now they just are throwning out ideas that they think we the fans like but nothing changed, the focus is still their ideas on the TCW.

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

Weren't Khan's Eugenics Wars in the 1990s in the Trek-verse?

IIRC yes to your question. The S.S. Bontany Bay was launched I believe in 1999. I think the Eugenics Wars were fought btn 1996-1999. I may have some dates off but yes there were in the 1990's so somehow we miss the lauch of sometype of advanced (at least for us) spacecraft. You see what the government is hiding from us!

I know that Gerg Cox wrote two novels dealing with Khan but I only read the first one. I've got the second one around somewhere but I haven't read it yet.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

The Eugenics Wars were also retconned to being in the 21st century, starting with the episode of DS9 where it's revealed that Bashir was genetically enhanced. And implied to again as being in the 21st century in the Enterprise episode where Archer is trying to save those Xindi eggs.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

As usual, there are discrepancies in the Trek Timeline...... Thanks to Braga and Berman rewriting Trek "history". The Eugenics war was supposed to be in the 1990s according to the Trek made by Roddenberry. And we weren't supposed to see Ferengi for many, many, many years. Same with Romulans who we had NEVER SEEN until TOS. I think even the Borg have shown up in Enterprise. Don't know for sure since I don't watch it. Watched tonight's ep which was 'eh'.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Actually, as roll-eye-smilie-errific as the Ferengi and Rommie appearances on
ENT were (as well as the later Borg appearance), the only continuity breakin'
they committed was givin' the Romulans cloaking devices and even that could
be explained away easily as bein' older not-as-advanced type of stealth tech
(after all, it's not like they had a hard time breakin' through the illusion, when
compared to TOS/TNG era cloaks).

Stretching continuity, definately, but breaking it? Not really.