Romulan Vs. Vulcans

[tmutant]

Originally posted by Yuber Okami
T'lara, they don't have ridges in my games neither. And when you make a tricorder reading of them, it's almost impossible to differenciate them from Vulcans...(this adds a lot of fun as my players cannot relay in their super technology )

It was established in The Enterprise Incident (TOS) that is was difficult for sensors to distinguish between Spock and a ship full of Romulans. If I recall correctly, his half-human heritage provided the difference needed to lock on to him with the transporter.

[pathstrider]

As an aside, it's good they can laugh at themselves with the klingon theoris:

The Under-Resourced Creator Theory

This theory states that the universe is a creation of one or more beings, and that our universe exists solely for their entertainment. Being almost but not quite all-powerful, the Creator at one time envisioned Klingons as they exist today, but at that time was unable, with the limited resources at hand, to fully realize the original vision for them.

However, as time moved forward and the universe grew, the Creator was provided with resources vastly superior to the ones originally available, and thus Klingons were recreated in the original vision. Because every being in this galaxy is controlled by the Creator, few beings ever questioned the discrepancy and those that did were met with evasive answers, all at the behest of the Creator. Being a very busy Creator, there were always more pressing issues at hand than explaining the discrepancy, and thus the issue has remained a mystery to this day.

While someday the truth about this odd discrepancy in Klingon appearance may be known, it's entirely possible that the truth has been lost over the course of history

lol!

[Raygun]

Vulcans have a very violent past. They came to the brink of destorying themselves. Obviously they didn't do that. Rather, they subscribed to a path in pursuit of logic. Vulcans are not by nature logical--they control their violent emotional nature through long childhood training.

There were a group of Vulcans who didn't want to be "pacified" and left on generation ships to find a hospitable planet to colonize. They eventually settled on Romulus and became what we now know as "Romulans".

[TheAntisocial]

Ah, Pathstrider you're forgetting one thing, in one of the first Enterprise episodes, they had klingons with forehead ridges, so maybe the Creator had to undo some of his work to create the suliban (sp?) but then he got bored with them, destroyed them and re-instated the forehead ridges :P

[Questor]

I for my part can only state the idea from the old FASA Star Trek Game that the Klingon Empire had hybird forms of mixed Human/Klingon (as shown in the TOS?), Romulan/Klingon and Orion/Klingon origin.

Could it also be possible that the Romulans developed in an similar way?

The article is an nice idea (as C5 stated) to create doubt in Players Starfleet Characters (and maybe others).

-Questor

[Liz Not Beth]

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[JonA]

Originally posted by Liz Not Beth
In our world there are different kinds of Romulans and Vulcans. Some have ridges, some are black, some have southern accents. ("Ya'll know that ain't logical now dontcha?")

But most rare of all are the orange-skined ridg-head southern Vulcans!

Yes - but you're trek isn't exactly for the purist now is it?