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From: quint@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Amqueue)
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Subject: Re: Romulans or Klingons ??
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 00:19:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 00:19:45 1985
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In article <8500031@inmet.UUCP> dwyer@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>What is the relationship between Romulans and Klingons?
>
>I recall in series-episodes that romulan ships were called
>'Romulan bird of prey' and they had the cloaking device.
>In 'Search for Spock' Kirk calls it a 'Klingon bird of prey'
>and it has the cloaking device.
>
>Have they joined forces?
>Do they have a common ancestry (do the vulcans fit in there anywhere)?
>-matt

You seem to have missed some episodes. Romulans and Vulcans were once
the same race. Before Vulcans bacame logical, some of their people were
taken by the Protectors (? no relation to niven, I may be wrong on the
terminology) elsewhere. This race became the Romulans. I believe this 
is talked about in The Enterprise Incident... maybe Balance of Terror.

In Balance of Terror, the Romulans had Birds of Prey. In the Enterprise
Incident, the Romulan ship looked like the Klingon ships... they have 
joined forces and are exchanging technology. The Bird of Prey makes a 
great scout ship.

Some of this information may be from Spockanalias, or the Blish 
novelizations... most of it is mixed in my brain...

Die Young and Be Sterile
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