Romulan relatives?

[Jimmmy Packard]

Hello again! It's me again, your friendly neigbourhood novice narrator. I was wondering ... could their feasibly be a Romulan relative to Spock? The Vulcans and Romulans are pretty much related anyway. Any thoughts?

[Cochrane]

Spock would certainly have very distant cousins in the Star Empire.

[Jimmmy Packard]

Thanks, Cochrane. I had hoped to put this cousin, Var'Quay Spock, in my new episode, called "Tangled Webs." Var'Quay would be put in charge of a D'Deridex class cruiser. Would it be possible for a command crew to halt the onslaught of four of these cruisers before the cruisers entered the system? This may seem like a pretty silly question, but I would appreciate any comments.

[Kevin]

i think the relation would be the same as me being related to you with the contection being Adam & Eve

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Push the Button Frank

[Dan Gurden]

Kevins right...

The Romulans and Vulcans are a related species, but over a few thousand years the relations are going to be very distant cousins indeed.

I doubt that there would be any family resemblence or even the holding of the name... (Although Vulcan and Romulan names do seem to hold vaguely similar...)

It would take several weeks of dedicated computer research with DNA samples and full access to geneology records of both Romulus and Vulcan to even discover the distant connection...

However if you want the character, theres never been a block on creative license!

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Dan.

"A couple of thoughts froma random mind!"

[spyone]

Well let's see:

Saavik was originally supposed to be half-Romulan, but that dialogue got cut. Some hold it to be true because it was never _contradicted_ on screen.

Saavik was supposed to be pregnant with Spock's child during Star Trek IV, but that scene was cut. (see above)

Valeris (in ST:VI) was originally supposed to be Saavik, and they seemed to have a very romantic relationship.

Lastly (and non-canon), I've seen some suggestion that Saavik was a foster child of or adopted by Sarek, making her kinda Spock's sister.

So, Spock could have both direct and indirect relatives who were part Romulan.

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You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.

[Owen E Oulton]

Saavik's half-Romulan status just barely squeaks into canon - the footage was restored to the print broadcast on ABC in order to fill out the timeslot (a freind of mine has it on tape). Using the rule that onscreen = canon (Paramount's official rule), it counts, but only just... IMHO, anyway.

However, there's an easier way for a Vulcan PC (or even Spock) could have a distant Romulan relative. Remember that some of the Romulans in Spock's underground had maintained some Vulcan knowledge despite official repression of all such information. It is just possible that one of the pieces of lore handed down over the centuries is a family tree. If the Romulan finds out that the Vulcan is descended from one of his (or her) ancestors, voila!

There is also the possibility of Romulan refugees marrying back into the Vulcan culture. We know that some Romulans have intermarried with federation citizens, as evidenced that Crewman Simon Tarses was part Romulan.

[spyone]

Discussed this with my brother, got some valuable insights:

While it is true that until the TOS episode "Balance of Terror" no one had ever seen a Romulan, this just means that no Vulcan traveled to Romulan space and returned. There might have been Vulcans taken prisoner by the Romulans.
Far more importantly, there might have been Romulan agents in the Federation. The episode "Enterprise Incident" established that, even if you know what you're looking for, it is very hard to tell a Vulcan from a Romulan. So Romulans could have been living in the Federation for decades and passing for Vulcan.

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You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.

[Cochrane]

And we all know Sarek has an identical Romulan twin...

[Kronok]

I was wondering ... could their feasibly be a Romulan relative to Spock? The Vulcans and Romulans are pretty much related anyway. Any thoughts?[/B]

Not only related, they are genetically similar, so any Romulan/Vulcan breeding is possible.

I would personally stay away from a "Spock mated with... NPC"

However, Spock's brother from STV probably mated with many a Romulan and has little Spock nephews all over the galaxy!!!

Translation- You are the narrator. You are a god. Do what you wish.

Kronok

P.S. I, personally, stay away from any "Major Canon NPCs" hence the Spock's brother suggestion.

[Dan Gurden]

Originally posted by Cochrane:
And we all know Sarek has an identical Romulan twin...

Had, Cochrane, past tense...

He definatly didn't bother with the lifepods!

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Dan.

"A couple of thoughts froma random mind!"

[Cochrane]

Well, I don't remember ever actually seeing the episode... But that would be cool to include him in the TNG era. By the way, did he have a name? Does anyone have a (tongue- in- cheek?) explanation for all these duplicates, both of the same species and not? For another example, good ol' Zefram's TNG alien doppleganger?

[SIR SIG]

It would be interesting to learn taht Romulans and Vulcans had come and gone as they wish through Fedreration space for many years.

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SIR SIG a Aussie TREK Narrator

[Alex Pryde]

One of my more interesting character's was Spock/Savvik's son who had been left in a Vulcan monastry. Two basic concepts: he had a dark secret considering the facts of his birth (Gensis planet and who he was conceived) and he wanted to met his father.