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Geordi La Forge to force him to assassinate Klingon Governor Enterprise-C, under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, Vagh, a move calculated to spark distrust between the Klingons responded to distress calls from Narendra lll, and attempted to and the Federation. (“The Mind's Eye" [TNG)). Later that year, render aid to the Klingons. Although the Enterprise-C was reportSela formed a covert alliance with the Duras family in an effort to ed lost, the incident led to closer Klingon-Federation ties in folwrest control of the Klingon High Council from Gowron. The lowing years. (“Yesterday's Enterprise” [TNG]). Two Romulan offiattempt was unsuccessful, but it triggered a Klingon civil war in cers were found on Galorndon Core in 2366 after the downing of 2367-2368, with Sela providing material support to the Duras their scout craft. (“The Enemy” [TNG]). forces. (Redemption, Parts | and II” [TNG]). An underground The Romulans believed the Dominion to be the greatest movement emerged in the late 2360s, seeking to promote reunifi- threat to the Alpha Quadrant in the last century. Accordingly, the cation of the Romulans with their distant Vulcan cousins. When Romulan government attempted in 2371 to collapse the Bajoran the Romulan government became aware of this movement in wormhole in order to prevent a potential Dominion invasion. The 2368, Proconsul Neral tried to use it as a cover for an attempted plan, which would have included the destruction of station Deep invasion of planet Vulcan. The invasion was thwarted by the Space 9 to eliminate witnesses, failed when a cloaked Romulan Federation Starfleet. Ambassador Spock chose to remain under- warbird accidentally caused Miles O'Brien to timeshift into the cover on Romulus to continue work toward reunification. near future, where he witnessed the Romulan attack. Upon (“Unification, Parts | and II" [TNG]) returning to his present, O'Brien warned station personnel, thwarting the plan. (“Visionary” [DS9]) Romulan warbird. Massive, powerful Two years later, when an alliance of the Dominion and the - spacecraft first encountered in 2364 Cardassian Union threatened to destabilize the Alpha Quadrant, - | Wl when the Romulans violated the the Romulans joined forces with the Federation and the Klingon -& Romulan Neutral Zone in response to Empire, contributing a fleet of Romulan warships to the defense attacks by the Borg. Designated as effort. ("By Inferno’s Light” [DS9]). D’deridex class, the warbird was nearly The Romulan legislative body is known as the Romulan twice the overall length of a Galaxy-class starship (“The Neutral Senate. (“The Die is Cast" [DS9)) Zone” [TNG]) and utilized an artificial quantum singularity as a power source for its warp-drive system (“Face of the Enemy” Romulus. One of the two homeworlds of the Romulan Star [TNG]). A Romulan warbird was destroyed in 2369 when its Empire. (“Balance of Terror” [TOS]). Romulus was settled by expapower source became a nest for extradimensional quantum sin- triate Vulcans some two thousand years ago. “Unification, Part |" gularity life-forms. (“Timescape” [TNG]). Starfleet at one time [TNG]). Admiral Jarok described Romulus as a world of awesome designated this ship as a “B-Type warbird” (“The Defector” beauty and spoke glowingly of such sights as the firefalls of Gal [TNG]). The Romulan warbird was designed by Andrew Probert Gath'thong, the Valley of Chula, and the Apnex Sea. (“The and built by Greg Jein. The ship first appeared in “The Neutral Defector” [TNG]). Ambassador Spock traveled to Romulus in Zone" and was subsequently used in “Where Silence Has Lease” 2368, on a personal mission to promote peaceful reunification (TNG), “Contagion” (TNG), “Peak Performance” (TNG), “The between the Romulans and the Vulcans. Shortly thereafter, Picard Enemy” (TNG), “The Defector” (TNG), “Tin Man” (TNG), “Future and Data also went to Romulus, on a covert mission to determine Imperfect” (TNG), “Data's Day" (TNG), “The Mind's Eye" (TNG), Spock's motives. (“Unification, Parts | and II" [TNG]). SEE: Remus. “Redemption” (TNG), “Face of the Enemy" (TNG), “The Chase" (TNG), and “Timescape” (TNG). SEE: Romulan spacecraft. Ronara. Class-M planet in the Demilitarized Zone between the Federation and Cardassian borders, site of a Federation colony. Romulans. Warrior civilization from the planets Romulus and In 2370, Lieutenant Ro Laren made contact with a Maquis cell Remus. An offshoot of the Vulcan people who left Vulcan two in a bar located at the colony. The bar later served as a covert thousand years ago to found the Romulan Star Empire, the meeting place for Ro and Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (“Preemptive Romulans are a passionate, aggressive, but highly honorable Strike" [TNG]). people. (“Balance of Terror” [TOS], “Unification, Parts | and II" [TNG]). The ancient Romulans reached across much of the quad- Rondon. (Robert Riordan). Starfleet officer. Rondon participated rant with outposts and settlements on such far-flung worlds as in Wesley Crusher's academy entrance examinations at Relva VII Barradas Ill, Calder Il, Dessica Il, Draken IV, and Yadalla in 2364. Crusher successfully identified Rondon as a Zaldan Prime. SEE: Debrune. (“Gambit, Parts | and II" [TNG]). and acted correctly in addressing Rondon with brutal honesty in In modern times, the Romulans conducted a brutal attack on deference to the Zaldan belief that human courtesy is a form of the Klingon Narendra Ill outpost in 2344. The Starship dishonesty. (“Coming of Age” [TNG]) (| f | | =

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