Star Trek: The Original Series
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" equilibrium of Terror " remains one of the most iconic episode ofStar Trek : The Original Series , andStar Trek : Strange New Worldsrevisited the first appearing of the Romulans with a new twisting . InStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 1 , instalment 14 , " Balance of Terror,“Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) and the USS Enterprise face up off against a Romulan shipthat attacked United Federation of Planets outpost in the Neutral Zone . What follows is a tense plot of cat - and - mouse between the Enterprise and the cloaked Romulan vessel . The Romulans would only seem in one moreTOSepisode , but they remain formidable enemies of the Federation .
removed cousin of the Vulcans , the Romulans refund inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 1 , and have go on to bulge out up in mostStar Trekseries . In the 24th century , long after leaving the Starship Enterprise behind , Ambassador Spock ( Leonard Nimoy)began working to reunify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples , a unmanageable prospect that eventually come to drop dead long after Spock ’s death . “Balance of Terror " established the cunning and sometimes duplicitous nature of the Romulans , andStar Trek : Strange New Worldsrevisited the outcome of the classicStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisode in its first season finale .
Star Trek : The Next Generation acknowledged that not all Romulans were deceitful baddie ten before Star Trek : Picard .
Star Trek’s Original “Balance Of Terror” Romulan Episode Explained
“I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend.”
As Captain Kirk officiate a marriage on plank the USS Enterprise , a Romulan ship attacks a Federation outpost on the boundary of the Neutral Zone . Although there had been awar between Earth and the Romulansa hundred before , no one in the Federation had actually regard what the Romulans bet like . The Romulan ship has a cloaking equipment that render it invisible , but Kirk and the Enterprise conjure a mean to track the foe ship , eventually clear access to a visual transmittal . When Kirk and his bunch first see the Romulans , they are shock by their similar appearing to Vulcans .
On the Enterprise bridge , Lt . Stiles ( Paul Comi ) spring up funny of Spock , even though Spock is just as surprised by the Romulans ' show as everyone else . Spock surmises that the Romulans are an other offshoot of the Vulcans , suggesting that they have likely retain the warlike nature of the other Vulcans . Kirk rank the Enterprise to assail , and the two ships begin a deadly face - off . In the death , the Romulan Commander ( Mark Lenard ) orders the destruction of his own ship after the Enterprise incapacitate it , deplore that he and Kirk have a lot in common .
Mark Lenard would go on to run Spock ’s father , Ambassador Sarek , inStar Trek : The Original Series’season 2 installment , " Journey to Babel . "
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Redid “Balance Of Terror” - How It Was Different
“What do Romulans care of peace? It means nothing to us. And your apparent affinity for it has sealed your fate.”
Star Trek : unknown New Worldsseason 1 ’s finale,“A Quality of Mercy " explore what would have find had Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) been in command of the Starship Enterprise rather than Kirk in " Balance of Terror . " After learning of his tragic destiny inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , Captain Pike began ruminate way he could change his future . InStrange New Worlds ' " A Quality of Mercy , " a future version of Admiral Pike shoot the breeze his preceding self to admonish him about what happens if he avoids his foreboding stroke . Captain Pike then finds himself in command of the Enterprise in an alternative future , facing the same problem Kirk did in " Balance of Terror . "
In program line of the USS Farragut , Captain Kirk ( Paul Wesley ) exhort Pike to set on the Romulan vessel , but Pike wants to obviate battle .
After a brief battle , Pike negociate a temporary ceasefire with the Romulan Commander ( Matthew MacFadzean ) , who also wants to annul war . One of the other Romulan officers , however , look Pike ’s conclusion as weak and bid in support . The Romulans then snipe the enterprisingness , sternly bruise Spock , and declare war on the Federation . Captain Pike generate to his own fourth dimension , where he decide to swallow his future . Not only does " A Quality of Mercy " offer a gripping character written report of Captain Pike , but it also serves as a brilliant call back to one ofStar Trek : The Original Series’most iconic episodes .
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