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PLAYED BY:
Mark Lenard
SPECIES: Romulan Male
Around stardate 1709, a Romulan commander
piloted a Bird-of-Prey on a mission testing a cloaking device,
and a new energy weapon that destroyed Federation outposts along
the Romulan Neutral Zone. A veteran of countless military
campaigns, he was an atypical Romulan commander who questioned
the ethics of his mission and was wary of war. He believed that
enough lives had been sacrificed for the Romulan quest for
conquest.
He and James T. Kirk would engage in a deadly game of cat and
mouse. At first he tried to return to Romulus to deliver the
information on the new weapon, but did turn and fight when the
Enterprise intercepted him. When his ship was disabled by the
USS Enterprise he destroyed it, rather than be captured. He told
Kirk that he admired him and that they were alike, and could
have been friends in another reality. |
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PLAYED BY:
Paul Comi
SPECIES: Human Male
When it was learned the Romulans
were externally identical to Vulcans, Stiles
transferred his hatred to Spock, making a number of
thinly-veiled insinuations that eventually drew the
ire of Captain James T. Kirk; Kirk remarked that
bigotry had no place on the bridge.
During battle with the Romulan ship, close-range
detonation of a nuclear device left the forward
phaser control room manned only by Specialist Robert
Tomlinson, with no standby crew.Since Stiles' first
assignment had been weapons control, he left the
bridge to assist Tomlinson. When the phaser coolant
line developed a fault, Stiles and Tomlinson were
overcome before they could escape. Fortunately,
Spock was nearby and was able to rescue Stiles
before the gas could kill him, an act that possibly
defused Stiles' bigotry. |
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PLAYED BY:
Lawrence Montaigne
SPECIES: Romulan Male
Decius served aboard a Romulan
Bird-of-Prey, attacking a series of Earth outposts
along the Romulan Neutral Zone. As a disciplinary
measure, Decius was reduced two steps in rank by his
commander as a result of Decius's breaking of radio
silence, dispatching a coded message to provide a
status update to the Romulan praetor. His commander
initiated this action despite the fact that Decius
had influential friends within the Empire, believing
that they were being shadowed by an Earth vessel.
Later, in response to his commander's refusal to
attack the USS Enterprise, Decius successfully
manipulated him into launching an attack by
requesting permission to destroy the enemy vessel
himself. His commander, refusing to relinquish his
own authority, did indeed attack, but soon found
that the Enterprise was, in fact, only feigning
disablement, and found himself overpowered by the
Earth vessel. Decius and the other Romulan
crewmembers were killed when the commander initiated
a self-destruct, refusing to surrender to the
Humans. |
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PLAYED BY:
Stephen Mines
SPECIES: Human Male
Tomlinson was engaged to be
married to Angela Martine, a fellow Enterprise
crewmember. The wedding ceremony was interrupted,
however, when the Enterprise came under attack by a
Romulan Bird-of-Prey, necessitating all crewmembers
reporting to battlestations. Later, Tomlinson was
left as the only crewmember in the phaser room, when
all others assigned there were injured due to
radiation burns, although he was later supplemented
by Lieutenant Stiles. Later, as Tomlinson and Stiles
were working in the phaser room, a phaser coolant
leak incapacitated both of them, in the midst of
another Romulan attack. Although Lieutenant
Commander Spock was able to pull them both from the
phaser room, Tomlinson succumbed to his injuries and
died, the only casualty of the conflict. |
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PLAYED BY:
Barbara Baldavin
SPECIES: Human Male
She was a specialist in fire
control, part of a team responsible for operating
the ship's phasers. As she was about to marry Robert
Tomlinson, the Enterprise received a distress call
from one of the Earth outposts guarding the neutral
zone. The wedding was postponed. In the course of
chasing and crippling the Romulan Bird-of-Prey
responsible for the attack, her fiancé inhaled a
lethal quantity of phaser coolant. |
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PLAYED BY:
Garry Walberg
SPECIES: Human Male
The Earth Outposts guarding the
Neutral Zone came under attack by a Romulan
Bird-of-Prey, equipped with a new, advanced cloaking
device, and powerful plasma-based weaponry, whose
crew was on a mission to test the resolve of Earth
force after a century of nonexistent contact with
Humans. The attack resulted in massive damage and
casualties, including the deaths of Hansen's weapons
crew. Hansen was subsequently contacted by Captain
Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise, who was attempting
to intercept the enemy vessel before it could attack
again. After giving a report on the attack to Kirk,
Hansen was killed when Outpost 4 was destroyed in a
final attack by the Romulans. |
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PLAYED BY:
John Warburton
SPECIES: Romulan Male
The Romulan centurion served
aboard the Praetor's flagship that attacked several
Federation outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone
in 2266. He was a close friend of his commander (see
entry below), and served with him in many campaigns.
He believed in the right of the Romulan Empire to
expand by use of any means necessary, including war.
He was of the old ways, where you did not question
the Praetor, but gave obedience. These beliefs were
not entirely held by his commander. He was killed in
battle with the USS Enterprise, he had pushed his
commander to safety and was mortally injured by some
falling debris in the control room. After he
succumbed shortly thereafter, his body, and some of
the ship's debris, was later jettisoned in an
attempt to deceive the Enterprise into believing the
ship was destroyed. |
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