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Post by Atoz 77 on Mar 20, 2009 7:44:12 GMT -6
This was a two part story where we meet the Romulans, who are trying to disrupt a peace conference between the Tellarites and Andorians. It also introduces a major goof in continuity -- as we saw in TOS episode "Balance of Terror", the Romulans were pretty much behind the Federation is basic technology (engines, power systems and so on), but suddenly here they have a Drone with holoemitter technology more advanced than anyone else! Plus they seem to have an instantaneous subspace remote control link enabling their Drone to outmaneuver anything in space, which nobody seems to have figured out even 200 years later (if we had, that would be just the thing to send after the Borg, don't you think?).
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Post by andrewlee on Mar 20, 2009 14:53:08 GMT -6
Atoz. I was wondering about the same things in this 2 part episode! Inconsistencies aside....I am sure the Romulan Admiral in charge of the drone ships was probably executed for his failer and the project scrapped!
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Post by Luke on Mar 25, 2009 10:36:51 GMT -6
I did like seeing Shran and that Tellerite go at it though.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Mar 28, 2009 8:18:10 GMT -6
Oh, yes, the conference was probably the best part of that episode. And the fight between Archer and Shran.
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Post by andrewlee on Mar 28, 2009 12:33:24 GMT -6
I thought it was funny how the Tellerites were so brutally honest to the point of being insulting! ;D
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Post by Atoz 77 on Mar 30, 2009 7:43:46 GMT -6
Yes, there was that scene where Archer told Tucker that he stank, and he replied, "Practising your Tellerite, eh?"
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Post by Luke on Apr 1, 2009 10:40:46 GMT -6
I suppose whoever wrote this epeisode thought that holograph technology was thelogical first step before their cloaking device. You think?
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 3, 2009 7:50:23 GMT -6
Could be. But if so, they weren't thinking very hard. Considering the distances in space, your first contact with an enemy ship would be by sensors, long before it came within visual range (how often have we seen that on Star Trek? -- "Just coming into visual range now, Captain." -- "Put on screen, Mr. Worf, full magnification.")
What's the first thing your sensors would show you? -- the ship's energy signature of course, the very thing T'Pol and Archer were showing to Shran to convince him the attacking ship wasn't Tellarite! If you weren't sure what alien race a strange vessel belonged to, its energy signature would be your first clue, with the way it actually looked coming in a long way second.
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Post by Luke on Apr 8, 2009 10:29:41 GMT -6
Ironically it would be easier to hide the ship completely than to make it appear to be soemthing it wasnt!
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Post by andrewlee on Apr 8, 2009 13:05:23 GMT -6
It is obvious that the Romulans did a poor job into trying to de-stabilize the region so they could expand into it after a war they were trying to set up! If they had found a way to alter their power signature as they did with their weapons signature, they might have been successful. It would have been much smarter of them to cloak, lay in wait for a passing ship, then use the holography on their ship to attack, send out false info, re-cloak and move on to the next target. One thing that I found to be inconsistent was the fact that these 2 drone ships had warp drive and were nearly as fast as Enterprise. In the TOS episode"Balance of terror" more than a 100 years later they had only impulse power. Later references confirm this until the later or mid TOS era when they formed a brief alliance with the Klingons exchanging cloaking technology for warp technology.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Apr 10, 2009 7:51:19 GMT -6
It would have been much smarter of them to cloak, lay in wait for a passing ship, then use the holography on their ship to attack, send out false info, re-cloak and move on to the next target. Except they didn't have cloaking technology yet. That was a brand new thing they used in "Balance of Terror" a hundred years later. But it's sharp of you to notice the impulse/warp drive continuity error, too. That bothered me, too. I suppose it's possible they had limited warp capability, enough for a small drone which didn't have a crew so it didn't need auxiliary attachments like inertial compensators and so on. I always thought the warbird in "Balance of Terror" must have had a warp capable tender or something, which brought it to the edge of the Neutral Zone and then waited to retrieve it.
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Post by andrewlee on Apr 10, 2009 9:46:47 GMT -6
Atoz. Actually in an earlier episode of Enterprise, the Romulans did have 2 ships that did have cloaking devices and a field of cloaked mines. One of these mines damaged enterprise. Another mine attached itself to the hull, which proved to be very difficult to remove. Lt Reed was injured in the process.
About the Romulans and warp technology. It has been suggested on another Trek forum that they used fusion warp which would not be much more advanced than simple impulse technology. A warp 1 point something as a top speed. They could have had a few ships that were warp capable ,but this would also be inconsistent with the events in "Balance of Terror" This is assuming impulse drive is a sub-light warping of space and not some sort of fusion ram-scoop drive technology.
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