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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
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Subject: re: Romulans/Klingons
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 23:15:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 23:15:11 1985
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> > Personally, I think the sieries authors didn't know the difference
> > between Romulans and Klingons.
> 
> I stated some time ago that Paramount seems to have developed a thing
> against Romulans.  In STII, we hear talk about the "Klingon Neutral
> Zone", which looks suspiciously like the Romulan Neutral Zone.  In
> STIII, we hear about the "Klingon Bird of Prey" (?!), The "Klingon
> Cloaking Device", etc.  But more importantly, those guys that killed
> David ACT LIKE ROMULANS!  I contend that they were originally written
> as Romulans and that somebody who knows nothing about what they're
> doing stuck their nose in the screenwriter's business and screwed
> things up.  Watch STIII again sometime and then see if you can look me
> straight in the CRT screen tell me that those are Klingons.
> 
> 					-- Mark A.

I have to agree with you.  When the 'klingon' bird of prey dropped
its 'cloaking device', Sulu noted that it was "arming torpedoes".
In the series it was the Romulans who had the plasma torpedoes.

As a side note, how come the Federation never devoloped their knowledge
of the Romulan cloaking device they stole?
-- 

	--Kevin Chu
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