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From: ins_bbdg@jhunix.UUCP (Bruce Dani Goldstein)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Romulans/Klingons --Fresh evidence
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 14:28:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  7 14:28:36 1985
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> I seem to recall that the Romulans all live in just one or two
> star systems, the one circling Romulas and possibly Remus.  (As named by the
> Roman astrologers, I've forgotten the constellations...)  So a neutral zone
> around them could logically be spherical, and entirely contained within 
> Federation space. 

In the episode, Balance of Terror, the navigator (I forget the name) tells
Kirk that his father was in the Fed/Romulan war.  This was a particularly
bloody war.  I find it hard to believe that two star systems (which 
had not developed faster-than-light travel before they met the Klingons) could
effectively keep at bay--if not defeat--a collection of united and organized
planets.  Furthermore, in Balance, Kirk puts on the screen a picture of the
Fed-Romulan border, which is far from spherical, and is guarded by no fewer
than eight outposts.  I will not argue with your description of the neutral
zone on Wrath of Khan, since I have not seen it in a while.  However, I can
not accept the fact that Star Fleet would dispatch their single most powerful
starship to guard two star systems, while the Klingons loom in the distance.
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