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Would the Romulan story line be getting a refresh any time soon?
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The Romulans had a refresh update prior to the Klingons. The Romulans have more unique episodes than all the Fed factions and Jem'Hadar together. We are currently waiting for the Feds to be updated and restored back to what it was.
Sorry for the references but the Romulan storyline in Picard season 1 sounded very similar to the plot of Mass Effect 1.
I know it is weird to say I don't want them to update or add to a faction. It's weirder when you factor in that Romulans are one of my absolute favorite things in Star Trek.
Problem with these folks updating things is they make grand announcements about all these things they're going to update and remaster. They 10 of them from the game, touch up 2 of them, and then NEVER MENTION THE REST AGAIN!
When asked about it devs have made flippant remarks that people would rather have new content. They see the metrics and so that might be true, but I think they are also a bit disconnected from reality at times. I'd say the community is pretty evenly split between those who want new stuff and those who want things like the Federation story to have weight to it again.
So I say again NO! Please DO NOT update my favorite faction because your track record for years now shows that you'll only put a tenth of what you take out back leaving an experience that while vaguely prettier feels completely soulless!
Don't count on it...they've pretty much abandoned all the "other" factions
This is incorrect, what they've said is that they actually DID do an update pass on the Romulan stuff before the YoK, they just didn't make a big deal about it like they did with YoK so it went under the radar for most players. I personally only ever played the original version of those missions once though so I wouldn't be able to tell what was changed.
Me too, I really liked the appeal of them since their debut episode Balance of Terror, I loved that they're Vulcans but as bad guys, How I described them is not quite right technically they're not Vulcans, It's more fitting to say that they evolved from Vulcans, since there's some minor biological differences but you get what I'm saying, imagine coming across an enemy that resembles a founding member of your faction, it's an extremely rare occurance.
Actually, they are Vulcans biologically, the difference is cultural mainly. When they had to find Spock on the Romulan ship the only way to tell him apart was to look for traces of human blood factors from his mixed heritage. Also, some throwaway dialog about Saavik mentioned that her blood type was common for Romulans but rare in Vulcans.
That all hints that the Romulans did not evolve away from Vulcans but rather that the war that caused the split was probably not purely an ivory tower philosophical dispute and also had an ethnic element to it as well that was probably whitewashed over. That could also explain why most Vulcans are of the smooth forehead type and most Romulans the V-forehead type.
I wish the devs would come up with some good TOS Romulan stuff, though they are probably afraid that if they do then SNW would canonshaft them by building on those TNG-style Romulans they had in that "what if" episode. The TNG Romulans are very much the cardboard villains unfortunately, since they are no longer in flux the way they were in TOS since the corruption that was talked about in "Balance of Terror" was fully in control by the time of TNG.
Even in TNG though, the Romulan people themselves were not generally bad, it was the totally corrupted government and their favored elite (like the Tal Shiar and a lot of the military) who were the villains if you go by what was shown in the episodes with Ambassador Spock and the underground.
Yeah the shift from TOS to TNG was weird, It's like these two species swapped personality traits, TOS Romulans were much closer to TNG Klingons, evil but honorable, while TOS Klingons were just as dishonorable and evil as TNG Romulans.