In “Balance of Terror,” Kirk and crew are most definitely amazed at the ability of the warbird to vanish at will, though Spock noted that invisibility was “theoretically possible”–which would be a pretty bizzarre observation if the Federation had already encountered it 100 years before.

Despite some disappointments I’d held out hope for “Enterprise,” and even had enjoyed a fair amount of what I’d seen up till that time. But with “Minefield,” I knew the jig was up, and that the show would never be the true prequel to TOS that it should have been (instead, it was merely a prequel to TNG and its offspring), because the producers obviously didn’t wish to go to the effort to make it one. And what angered me about the whole thing was that it was so unnecessary, since a stealthed ship would have worked just as well for the plot of “Minefield” as an invisible one. B & B were just too lazy–and too disdainful of TOS–to care one way or the other.

I never understood (or liked) why the subsequent TREKs gave the Romulans those odd protuberances on their foreheads… I guess the make-up budget had too much money to play with.

VOY did a couple of respectable episodes that involve the Romulans, as did DS9. I was very happy that ENT preserved canon by not ever permitting Archer and crew to (knowingly) meet the Romulans face-to-face, although I would have been curious to see how ENT would get around this since one of the season four arcs alluded to a conspiracy between a faction of the Romulans and Vulcan’s leader V’Las.

Note: Someone in one of the threads said Berman destroyed canon in “ST: Enterprise.” probably referring to the episode The Minefield,” by showing a warbird decloaking/ cloaking. Why this breaks canon is beyond me as it was introduced in TOS’s episode “Balance of Terror.” and if I recall correctly, there was no indication in that episode that cloaking technology was new to the Romulans–just the plasma weapon.

Just a thought, perhaps the Romulan / Federation War was was the result of the subterfuge that we saw in ENT’s season four.

They had a key episode revolve around a Romulan senator who Sisko brought to the station under stealth to present “evidence” of a dominion attack on Romulas in an attempt to gain the Romulans entry into the war.

Romulan Warbirds also featured heavily in the larger engagements shown in DS9 and they were mentioned to have liberated several Federation systems from Dominion control.

“I am 100 % confident that every single one reported has a role… When I say ‘confirmed’ that is not a rumour” – That’s why I asked you :-) You are THE source. I just wondered what you think about these rumours.

I absolutely understand this. There are far too many people in this movie to do an article on every single one. But I’m just so curious about this movie: every little article brings a thrill to me :-)

But I think I can be patient – or try to be :-)
And don’t worry, I will “stay tuned”!

Thank you very much.

We run a story every time we confirm an actor with a speaking role (or a famous person with a background role). There are dozens of extras out there that we will not do articles on, but I may add them to the cast list at some point…but really there are far too many.

As for more speaking roles…This site reports those we have confirmed through sources. We also report what other trusted sites report, but do not report stuff off any site that allows user generated content.

We have reported first on more trek cast members than any other site. I am 100% confident that every single one reported has a role (at least before the editor gets her hands on the movie). When I say ‘confirmed’ that is not a rumor…that from my point of view is a fact. This site will report plot points that I consider still ‘rumor’ but not cast

patience is a virtue and stay tuned.

I didn’t see “Nemesis” until after the first LOTR flick came out. My first thought was: “Where are the Romulans?”

My second thought was, “Why are there orcs in a Star Trek movie?”

Then I flipped the channel.

Peace. Live long and prosper.
The Vulcanista }:-|

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are both 76 (Shatner is three or four days older than Nimoy–both will be 77 next month)
Grace Lee Whitney is 78
Majel Barrett is 76 later this month
Nichelle Nichols is 75
Walter Koenig is 71
George Takei is 70
Bruce Hyde is 66

— and those who’ve gone on to the stars…

Jimmy Doohan was 85
DeForest Kelley was 79
Gene Roddenberry was 70
Mark Lenard was 72
Jane Wyatt was 96

Anthony, can you confirm the following rumors?

- Faran Tahir as ?
- David Narloch as Starfleet Cadet
- Greg Ellis as Enterprise’ Chief-Engineer Olsen
- Wednesday Mourning as an extra