Title, Season |
Synopsis |
Sareth's Opinion |
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The Neutral Zone |
Ouposts of the Federation are destroyed. Starfleet Command beliefs that the Romulans, not seen for over 50 years, are responsible. As Captain Picard with the "Enterprise-D" reaches the border, they encounter a Romulan warbird likewise searching the destroyer of their respective outposts. The teams must cooperate, as it becomes clear, that there is another unknown enemy out there. | First appearance of the Romulans in TNG, slightly
altered physiognomy. First sight of the famous warbirds.
The Romulan part of the episode has a somewhat
dark feeling. Romulan characters display the
'typical' arrogance and annoyance vis-à-vis their Federation counterparts. |
Marc Alaimo as Commander Tebok.
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Contagion |
The USS Enterprise receives a distress call from the USS Yamato, which has found the long lost home planet of the Iconians - in the middle of the Neutral Zone. Shortly after the call the Yamato is destroyed. Now Picard is afraid of what could happen if the Romulans discover the superior technology of the vanished Iconians, and soon indeed a Warbird is decloaking. But the commander of the enemy ship denies any responsibility for the loss of the Yamato. As the ships come closer to the Iconian homeworld a automated probe is launched from the planet and begins to disable the Enterprise and the Warbird. Picard has to beam down into a deserted Iconian city to find a solution before the ships will meet the same fate as the Yamato. |
Carolyn Seymor as Subcommander Taris |
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The Enemy |
An away team of the USS Enterprise discovers the wreckage of a Romulan scoutship and a wounded Romulan officer on the planet Galorndon Core. Conducting further investigations Geordi LaForge falls into a rift and is left behind when the others beam back to the Enterprise. LaForge is taken prisoner by the other missing crewman of the scoutship, but soon the hostile environment forces the two men to work together or die. Meanwhile the Romulan rescue mission with Commander Tomalak is under way. | Suspenseful plot about the slow process of understanding between different cultures in the face of destruction and death. |
John Snyder as Centurion Bochra |
The Defector |
The Romulan admiral Jarok defects believing his government is planning a first strike against the Federation. The USS Enterprise offers him asylum, but in the end all turns out as a elaborate plot to test Jaroks loyalty - and he has failed. | A sad story about different conceptions of patriotism. |
James Sloyan as Admiral Jarok |
Future Imperfect |
15 years in the future William Riker wakes up and has to cope with it, that the Federation is about to sign a peace treaty with the Romulan Star Empire, and that former commander Tomalak is an ambassador and key person to the negotiations - but something seems not quite right and realities are shifting. Has Riker been subjected to some psi experiment of the Romulans or what else? | Quite a confusing episode with surprising turns and twists. |
Andreas Katsulas as Ambassador Tomalak
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Data's Day |
A day on the Enterprise from the viewpoint of the android Data. The vulcan ambassador who in reality is a Romulan undercover agent on her way back to the Empire is only one event amongst others. | Even Data suspects nothing, the disguise of the Romulan is perfect. One time the Romulans win. |
Sierra Pecheur (left) as Romulan operative T'Pel |
The Mind's Eye |
Geordi LaForge is abducted by a Romulan scientist who manipulates Geordis VISOR in order to control his mind. When the engineer returns to his ship he is a saboteur and works together with the Romulan-friendly Klingon Kell to sow the seeds of dissent between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. But Data discovers the strange emissions from Geordis VISOR and soon the whole scheme. | Archetypical portrait of the Romulans always ready to bring discord and war to others and silently wait to gather the fruits of their actions. |  |
Redemption2 PartsSeason 4, ep. 25 / 5, ep.1 |
The Tal Shiar tries to destabilize the Klingon Empire by supporting the Duras-family in her claim to power and igniting a civil war. |
Nicholas Kepros as Admiral Movar
Denise Crosby as Sela |
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Unification2 PartsSeason 5, ep. 7 u. 8 |
Captain Picard and Data disguised as Romulans in an undercover mission on Romulus itself: to meet with ambassador Spock, who claims the Vulcan-Romulan unification project has won support in high ranks of the government. But they are all too credulous and went into a trap set by the Tal Shiar and it's officer Sela. Only in the very last moment Spock and Captain Picard can prevent an invasion of Vulcan. | Fans who are interested in the further history of Spock on Romulus should read the novel "Crossover" by Friedman, and the comic series "Countdown". |
Data and Picard in Romulan disguise |
Face of the EnemySeason 6, ep. 14 |
Counselor Troi undercover as Tal Shiar officer on a Romulan
Warbird, and she remembers nothing of the events which put her there. Only
slowly her mission is reveiled: to help the Proconsul defect to the Federation.
But the Commander of the Warbird and her dislike of the Tal Shiar almost let the mission fail. On the other side, a former Starfleet-Ensign who deserted to the Romulans 20 years ago, tries to return. |
This episode gives some interesting details about Romulan Military and Tal Shiar and the dispositions on a Romulan ship. |
Carolyn Seymour as Commander Toreth
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Birthright2 PartsSeason 6, ep. 16 / 17 |
Worf gets the information that his father is still alive in a Romulan prison camp. He takes shore leave to search for him - and finds a colony on the planet Carraya, where Romulans and Klingons live peacefully together, something Worf cannot accept. His actions disturb the life in the colony, as he begins to teach Klingon traditions to the young. Worf falls in love with a girl named Ba'el, but can't overcome his own prejudices as he discovers her half-Romulan heritage. | A very thoughtful episode about the power of traditions and prejudices. |
Jennifer Gatti as Ba'el with her parents |
The ChaseSeason 6, ep. 20 |
Captain Picard follows the datafiles of his dead fried, archeologist professor Galen, to planet Vilmor II. There he tries to solve the puzzle consisting of the DNA of 19 different species. The Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians are also interested in the data and not willing to share knowledge. But it's no bionic superweapon but a hologram which is created by the DNA information, and this hologram declares his astonished auditors, that his species is the ancestor of all humanoid species, and therefore all those enemies are brothers in reality. | Interesting version of the scientific "space seed" - theory, which also explains why the aliens in Star Trek look so similar. |  |
TimescapeSeason 6, ep. 25 |
Captain Picard, LaForge and Troi are in a runabout on their way back to the Enterprise, as they encounter strange temporal phenomena. The Enterprise herself seems to be frozen in time in a combat with a Romulan warbird, and as the three beam on board the crew seems just about to be overpowered by invading Romulans. But then the cause of the temporal anomaly is detected on the Warbird. The away team succeeds in traveling back in time - and discovers that everything is not as expected in the first place. | One of the best Romulan episodes ever! |
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The Pegasus ProjectSeason 7, ep. 12 |
The Enterprise is ordered on a secret mission to find the missing starship Pegasus, which, as it turns out, was testing an illegal interphasic cloaking device. The Romulans are on location as well and of course demand to know what went wrong with that starship. | This is a nice spy-episode where the Federation is involved in shady business - just like a litte later with Sisko on DS 9. |
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