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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 16, 2010 7:50:17 GMT -6
We can only hope! I've always wanted someone around this forum who understood the Engineering aspects better than I did!
The Romulans didn't turn up again until "The Deadly Years" when the Enterprise was at Gamma Hydra IV and Commodore Stocker ordered a direct course to Starbase 10, which took them straight across the Neutral Zone. In theory it's possible that it could still encompass only a single star system. But... by the Next Generation, it is obvious that the Zone is much bigger, because there are star systems IN in the Zone.
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Post by Luke on Jul 21, 2010 11:30:23 GMT -6
If you do the math, that works out to something like five million kilometers apart. So the Neutral Zone must be around just that one star system. Actually Admiral, if light travels 300,000 km per second, in one minuite it goes 18 million, in five minutes 90 million. That assumes Sulu meant maximum sublight speed. At warp six you could go 19 billion km in five minutes. That still means each outpost would be something like a fiftieth of a light year apart, so we're still talking about a single solar system. Oh and the warbird would take 18 hours to travel that far!
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 23, 2010 7:36:52 GMT -6
Thank you for the correction. As you know, my primary interest is exobiology. Math is not my strong suit.
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Post by Luke on Jul 31, 2010 8:08:53 GMT -6
So I'm guessing the neutral zone must have been expanded a lot sometime between Balance of Terror and TNG. Maybe by that Treaty of algeron we hear so much about. What do you think?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 2, 2010 7:40:18 GMT -6
It must have been expanded, because there are entire star systems (like the Devron system) inside the Neutral Zone. And in "The Enemy", it took Tomalak several hours to cross the NZ.
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Post by Luke on Aug 4, 2010 11:23:36 GMT -6
Part of the reason I like Romulans is that they have aduty based culture. I respect that.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 6, 2010 7:51:35 GMT -6
Well, we really haven't seen that many civilian Romulans, just starship crews. But I see your point. "We are creatures of duty, Captain. One last duty left to perform..."
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Post by Arkroyal on Aug 7, 2010 14:31:09 GMT -6
Strikes me that that is very like Vulcans who seem to be duty-bound to logic and family...there are times when you can tell the common root of the cultures, aren't there?
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Post by Luke on Aug 11, 2010 11:20:00 GMT -6
They do seem very much alike. THe Vulcans overcame their agressive tendencies with logic but the Romulans used a rigid concept of duty instead. Thats the say it seems like.
You know Worf is always going on about Romulans having no honor. But I dont see it. In Balance of Terror, the unnamed captain could easily have lured the Enterprise closer so that that the self-destruct would have taken her with them. But he didnt do that.
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