Strange New Worlds Fixes A 56-Year Old Romulan Mistake
Warning: Possible SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Finale — «A Quality of Mercy»
A preview for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 1 finale shows that the prequel has fixed a 56-year-old Romulan mistake fromStar Trek: The Original Series. In Strange New Worlds episode 9, the USS Enterprise commanded by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) underwent a tragic upheaval after a fatal encounter with baby Gorn on the planet Valeo Beta V. Pike's landing party investigating a distress signal from the USS Peregrine resulted in the deaths of three Enterprise crew members, including Chief Engineer Hemmer (Bruce Horak). In addition, Lt. La'an Noonien Singh (Christina Chong) left the Enterprise to reunite a young victim of the Gorn with her missing family.
The Romulans are a classic Star Trek adversary who first appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 episode, «Balance of Terror.» A Romulan Bird-of-Prey equipped with a cloaking device and a plasma energy weapon destroyed Starfleet outposts along the Neutral Zone. During Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the Starship Enterprise's tense game of cat-and-mouse with the Romulans, a star chart of Sector Z-6 indicated that the aliens' homeworlds were called Romulus and Romii in spite of spoken dialogue referring to the planets as Romulus and Remus. The name«Romii» was seen only once in that episode of Star Trek but was never canonically spoken of in the show. Remus was finally seen in 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis, which revealed the Remans were a slave caste that rose up to overthrow the Romulan Senate. The Remans briefly installed Shinzon (Tom Hardy), a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), as the new Praetor.
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