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THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE ROMULAN RIGHT OF STATEMENT 417 Romulan bird-of-prey. Spacecraft of the Romulan Star Empire in the late 23rd century. The Romulan bird-of-prey was painted with an Ny er o « mpressive predatory bird, and was [il 5 - A > equipped with a cloaking device RO AGEN ' x - a op and a powerful plasma energy LY o weapon. Propulsion was simple ; fae oo] 4 mpulse. The ship was equipped with a cloaking device, possibly : aw the first known example of a ship equipped with a practical invis S hd yf ibility screen. Fortunately, it was learned that the cloaking device A « required so much power that the ship had to decloak in order to J ~ fire. A Romulan bird-of-prey crossed the Romulan Neutral Zone . “AE n 2266 in a test of Federation resolve. (“Balance of Terror” [TOS]) A w SEE: Klingon bird-of-prey; Romulan spacecraft. La hd hd

Romulan cloaking device. SEE: cloaking device, Romulan Romulan commander. (Joanne Map of the Romulan Neutral Zone, 2266 Linville). Officer in charge of the — Romulan battle cruiser that cap Stocker, when radiation-induced aging threatened the lives of tured the original U.S.S. Enterprise the ship's command crew. (“The Deadly Years" [TOS]). The ship when Kirk and Spock crossed the again crossed into Romulan space in 2268 on a covert mission Romulan Neutral Zone on a spy to steal an advanced Romulan cloaking device. (“The L 4 mission in 2268. She attempted to Enterprise Incident” [TOS]). The Neutral Zone remained J persuade Spock to defect to the wacrossed by either party during an extended period of Romulan Romulan Star Empire, an effort made isolationism beginning after the Treaty of Algeron was signed vd Bll significantly more persuasive by the after the Tomed Incident of 2311. The mysterious destruction of MM personal attraction Spock felt for several Federation and Romulan outposts in 2364 triggered the i ’ the commander. After the successful end of this isolationism when a Romulan warbird crossed the pr conclusion of that mission (in which Neutral Zone to investigate. Although the outposts were later y Le Kirk and Spock stole an improved found to have been destroyed by the Borg, the incident trig { RUNYAN Romulan cloaking device), the gered a resumption of hostilities between the Romulans and the / BEM Romulan commander was made a Federation. (“The Neutral Zone” [TNG]). It was later determined BER Federation prisoner. (“The Enterprise that the pattern of large craters was characteristic of Borg DM Incident” [TOS)). Kirk indicated that attacks, suggesting the possibility of Borg activity near the commander would eventually be returned to Romulan territo- Federation space nearly a year prior to first contact with the ry, although we have no way of knowing if this actually happened. Enterprise-D in 2365. (“Q Who?" [TNG]). Captain Donald Like Mark Lenard'’s character, this Romulan commander was not Varley, commanding the U.S.S. Yamato, violated the Romulan given a name. Neutral Zone in 2365. Varley entered the zone in a successful effort to locate the ancient planet Iconia, in hopes of preventing Romulan commander. (Mark the Romulans from gaining access to their legendary weapons Lenard). Conducted the Romulan technology. Unfortunately, the Yamato itself fell victim to an Incursion of 2266, crossing the . Iconian weapon, and an interstellar incident was nearly triggered Romulan Neutral Zone in com when the same weapon nearly destroyed the Enterprise-D and a mand of a Romulan bird-of-prey Romulan warbird. (“Contagion” [TNG]). A Romulan scoutship to test Federation defenses and was detected in the Neutral Zone by the crew of Federation outresolve. A highly honorable individ- post Sierra VI in 2366. The ship was piloted by Alidar Jarok ual, he feared the toll that a new who was defecting to the Federation so that he could warn of Romulan-Federation war would 4 what he believed was a dangerously destabilizing base on planbring, but nevertheless carried out p: | et Nelvana lll. On Stardate 43462.5, the Enterprise-D entered his orders to the best of his ability La the Neutral Zone, in violation of the Treaty of Algeron, to investi (“Balance of Terror” [TOS]). Actor %: gate these reports. (“The Defector” [TNG]). The Neutral Zone Mark Lenard would later play Sarek 5 . was also violated in 2366 by the Romulan scoutship Pi and later (Spock's father) in “Journey to by Tomalak's warbird when he tried to rescue the crew of the Pi. Babel” (TOS), et al., as well as the Klingon commander in Star (“The Enemy” [TNG]). The Starship Enterprise-E was assigned to Trek: The Motion Picture patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone on stardate 50893 at the time of the Borg incursion to Sector 001 in 2373. (Star Trek: First Romulan empress. A leader of the Romulan Star Empire. Q Contact). (In the anti-time future created by the Q Continuum briefly considered asking the Romulan empress to be the mother the Klingons had conquered the Romulan Star Empire. The of his child before deciding on Kathryn Janeway. (“The Qand the Neutral Zone was under the control of the Klingons, forcing the Grey" [VGR]) crew of the Pasteur to seek Worf's help to enter the Zone.) (“All Good Things..." [TNG)). “The Defector” (TNG) established the Romulan Neutral Zone. A region of space approximately one Treaty of Algeron and suggested the width of the Neutral Zone. light-year across, dividing the Romulan Star Empire from the The first edition of this Encyclopedia assumed that the treaty was United Federation of Planets. The Neutral Zone was estab- signed after the Romulan war in 2160, but “The Pegasus” (TNG) lished in 2160 after a conflict between Earth and the Romulans. makes it clear that it was signed after the Tomed Incident. That conflict had been fought with early space vessels using primitive atomic weapons. The peace treaty establishing the Romulan Right of Statement. Romulan law allowing a con Neutral Zone had been negotiated by subspace radio and pro demned person to record an official statement regarding his guilt vided that entry into the zone by either party would constitute an or innocence. Spock, captured by Romulan authorities for espi act of war. The zone remained unviolated until the Romulan ~~ onage in 2268, made an exceptionally long statement under this incursion of 2266. (“Balance of Terror” [TOS]). The Enterprise right, a successful effort to buy enough time for Kirk to complete violated the Neutral Zone in 2267 at the order of Commodore their spy mission. (“The Enterprise Incident” [TOS])