Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars

[orbitalfreak]

Same with Romulans who we had NEVER SEEN until TOS.

The Romulan War was fought a while before Kirk and TOS; the significance of "first meetings" with the Romulans in TOS is that it is then that we first see their faces. Ship-to-ship contact had been made before.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Also of note the weapon being tested in STOS: Balance of Power was the Plasma Torp not the cloaking device.

But why go with the Romulan Wars when you have the Klingons! Romulans are intrigue behind the throne stuff, Klingons are action and the big boom. You go with the Klingons and show why they were hated so much in Kirk's time, the raids, the slavery! But nooooooo, they don't want to do bad Klingons.

Don't get me wrong, seeing the Romulan war would be interesting as history but not as a story arc.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I must agree that I don't really want to see the Rommie war in ENT.
I mean, we just had a big scale war arc in Trek just a couple of years
ago. Next thing, please.

 

[Ranger REG]

"Two years ago"???

Oh, you mean DS9, aired in the middle part of the 90's.

For us, it's been too long, especially having to suffer Braga's version of VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE as of late.

Bring back the Romulan War. It usually speed up the alliance that will form the Federation.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Allright, a few years ago, then.

Hey, I ain't talkin' fondly of Braga, VOY or the first two seasons of ENT,
but I want something I haven't seen before in Trek. Not a rehash of the
good bits. I'm all for Birth of the Federation, as such, but any multi year
war arcs I'm not looking forward to. I already got that not only in DS9,
but B5 too!

I want something Trek hasn't shown me yet.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I hope they honestly don't make that the next trek movie...

I want them to do something using parts of the TNG, DS9 and VOY cast in something. There's still some plots left from those 3 series they can follow up on, especially with DS9, like a movie about the aftermath of the war left on Cardassia as Garak and others try to fix a politically unstable Cardassian Union, or some apocalyptic showdown between Dukat and Sisko, or even a movie that tries to explore the consequences of all the problems Janeway caused back in the Delta Quadrant.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

The Romulan War was fought a while before Kirk and TOS; the significance of "first meetings" with the Romulans in TOS is that it is then that we first see their faces. Ship-to-ship contact had been made before.

Seen as in visually seen by anyone of the Federation due to the lack of visual technology to allow ship-to-ship visuals at the time. That was what I was meaning by my comment..... Before Kirk had seen any of them, noone knew that they looked like their Vulcan buddies but with slimy, nasty attributes the Vulcans had rid themselves of.

 

[Ranger REG]

Allright, a few years ago, then.

Hey, I ain't talkin' fondly of Braga, VOY or the first two seasons of ENT,
but I want something I haven't seen before in Trek.

Oh, you mean like ... ENTERPRISE?

Let's face it, conflict is exciting.

Not a rehash of the good bits. I'm all for Birth of the Federation, as such, but any multi year war arcs I'm not looking forward to. I already got that not only in DS9, but B5 too!

I want something Trek hasn't shown me yet.

I don't see any other way to start off the Birth of the Federation than having a stellar-scale conflict. Unless you want them to start off with an economic summit with regards to the trading and mining of dilithium resources and viola! The Federation is born.

I find more excitement watching souffle rising.

Not all rehash are bad, especially if done right. For example, one of the few handfuls of VOY episode I like is "A Blink of an Eye" about a planet that is temporally out-of-sync with the rest of space but because the ship got trap in the wake it became part of that culture's mythos, as well as the continuing tremor. Anyone who watched TOS recognized a familiar element from the episode, "A Wink of an Eye." Same element, two different stories (the old version is about a group of people who wanted to hijack Kirk's ship).

 

[Viking Bastard]

Oh, you mean like ... ENTERPRISE?

Didn't I say I wanted something I hadn't seen before? Didn't I say I didn't
think fondly of ENT? Well, the problem with ENT is largely that while trying
to give us something new, they gave us the same old crap as usual. VOY
with a new crew.

Let's face it, conflict is exciting.

Can't really argue with that. Conflict can be very much exciting. I'm not
saying I don't want any conflict. I'm just saying I don't want want a large
scale war. Been there, done that. Next please.

I don't see any other way to start off the Birth of the Federation than having a stellar-scale conflict.

I don't really either. Which is why I said: "...as such."

Not all rehash are bad, especially if done right. For example, one of the few handfuls of VOY episode I like is "A Blink of an Eye" about a planet that is temporally out-of-sync with the rest of space but because the ship got trap in the wake it became part of that culture's mythos, as well as the continuing tremor. Anyone who watched TOS recognized a familiar element from the episode, "A Wink of an Eye." Same element, two different stories (the old version is about a group of people who wanted to hijack Kirk's ship).

Oh, they could do it well (or not) and I might like it very much and it could
remember it as my favourite moment of Trek, ever. But until then, I'm not
lookin' forward to the idea. Especially with the current creative team involved.

Of course, they could take the Rommie war and give it somekinda spin. In
fact, the Temporal Cold War could be a good spin. But it's just like Braga
to think of a pretty neat idea like that and crash it into the ground. VOY
was full of badly executed good ideas.

Some people get lemons and make lemonade. Braga is the kinda a guy that
makes concentrated sour.

 

[Ranger REG]

Sorry, bro, but I prefer large-scale war. I hated when they decided to keep the so-called Cardassian War in the TNG background. I mean despite the fact that E-D is carrying families onboard, LaForge did say that this is the flagship of the fleet.

Trust me, you won't find anything exciting than that, especially if NX-01 should be involved. I mean it's like not using battleship Missouri in World War II.