#romulans

I’ve rewatched “Future Imperfect” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 8). It’s a very interesting episode, as any episode about some kind of parallel universe/unreal future. Riker, Worf and Geordi beam down on some weird empty planet, experience some transporter malfunction (of course, what else?) and… (Spoilers!) Riker wakes up in the sickbay and Beverly says that this weird planet happened sixteen years ago, when he was infected with some virus, which manifested only now and erased all his memories of those sixteen years. So, now he’s the captain of Enterprise, he has a son, whose mother died two years ago. Federation is in the middle of the process of negotiations with the Romulan Empire – they are going to sign the peace treaty (peace treaty. With Romulans. Surprise!). Picard (who’s an admiral now) and Troi (who’s serving with the admiral in command) are persuading the Romulans are sincere and that Riker is a clue person in negotiations. Well, the moment I saw the Romulan ambassador, I remembered the main plot twist, but then it turned out that it was not the last twist. Riker sees Tomalak and doesn’t believe him, but it’s not all. He spends time with his son and decides to see his late wife and she turns out to be Minuet. Riker rushes to the bridge, shouts at Geordi that his diagnostic is taking too long, he asks Data to do some calculations and he’s also doing it too slow. William asks Tomalak directly if it’s enough? Tomalak agrees and Riker finds himself on the Romulan base, he is held hostage and Romulans were using some mind-reading device to find some strategic information. Then it appears that the boy is real and was used to produce those illusions for Riker. The boy helps commander run, but then some more inconsistencies appear, the Romulan base also disappears and Riker stays alone with the boy, who’s member of some extinct race, who was left of the planet with the mind reding devices to provide him with pleasant illusions, but he feels lonely and that’s why he kidnapped Riker. Commander, of course, isn’t offended and takes the boy with him on Enterprise. (I’ve noticed, that more emotions I had while watching/reading something, the longer the post about it is. As you could have noticed I liked that episode very much.) 

marxistgnome:

thinking about an autistic romulan character

like specifically one that was raised as a vulcan / had to pretend to be a vulcan for their own safety and after they were found out or whatever everyone is like oh u can stop pretending to be emotionless now bro and theyre just like this is???  just how i talk???

I’d have gone with Romulan, but still a solid tattoo!

“So, I hear you killed my sister”

I would love to see a confrontation between Ishara and Sela.

I think Ishara would try to manipulate Sela into giving Romulan support to the Coalition. But of course, Sela would prove to be much wilier than Ishara could handle.

Cretak with her back scratched up. I blame this one on Strategy Of Attrition by girlonthelasttrain on AO3

I figure Romulans stay super fit during their fighting years, so this was a good excuse to look at anatomy. A friend posed and I exaggerated using pictures of bodybuilders. May have gone a little overboard.

Unscratched

Wanted to draw one of my favourite scenes from Catalyst of Sorrows.

Cretak and Koval couple up as young adults, since they’re from the same caste and their lives are heading along the same path. But then one day Cretak rolls over, decides he ain’t shit, and breaks up with him.

An inspiration.

amygdalan-arm:

In order to be a Romulan u hafta be rectangular. The more rectangular u are the more romulaner it is