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Blind Romulans

tilarium1979tilarium1979 Member Posts: 567 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Romulan Discussion
Did anyone else find it funny and laugh when they (in one of the gathering romulan missions) they went on the space station and meet a Romulan with LaForge's visor? I wask because in a episode of TNG when LaForge and a Romulan were trapped on a planet the Romulan told LaForge had he been born on Romulus he would have been killed at birth.
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited May 2013
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  • elandarkskyelandarksky Member Posts: 1,013 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Or their ideas about their caring for their young have changed after hobus, like many other of their ideals :)
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  • miramortalemiramortale Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It never occurred to me that he might be blind. In fact, given that the game takes place decades after Geordie is able to ditch his visor, I figured most NPCs that have eyepieces are wearing them as enhancements... ( 25th century Google Glass)
  • drac0s65drac0s65 Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It is a "Softer, Gentler" Romulus?
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  • naeviusnaevius Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    He's not blind, he just stole the shades off a blind guy. :)
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    drac0s65 wrote: »
    It is a "Softer, Gentler" Romulus?

    I may just as well be they can no longer afford to get rid of people whose skills don't depend on their ability to see colours the way sighted people do.
  • tlamstriketlamstrike Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Maybe he isn't blind he just uses the VISOR. Maybe he was once part of the Romulan military that required it be installed.

    (Considering that the VISOR causes the user constant discomfort that idea makes the Romulans a little bit scarier.)
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  • davidwforddavidwford Member Posts: 1,836 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Yes, and I think I rather liked the guy.....before his boss tried to kill me. I am curious as to why an NPC can use one, but it is not an optional consume piece in the tailor.
  • reximuzreximuz Member Posts: 1,172 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    He's an easter egg. Look at his name, and Google it spelt backwards. :D
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  • griged32griged32 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Since VISOR'S (by this time) have been replaced by ocular implants, I rather expected that he'd been blinded early in life and then fitted with the VISOR because he couldn't afford/find proper implants.

    Also thought/hoped he'd make a good BOFF and inspired a future story for one... until he tried to kill me :P
  • malakim0malakim0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    reximuz wrote: »
    He's an easter egg. Look at his name, and Google it spelt backwards. :D

    Oh now what the heck is his name?!?!

    Well fortunately I'll be leveling up a character and doing that mission again soon.
  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Well Cryptic has made it clear that these are different Romulans from the ones on the show....they might as well be a different species they are so different. Cryptic's new paradigm are based off of the likes of the Bajorans and the Rebel Alliance from Star Wars, so it wouldn't suprise me if they chose to purposefully ignore inconvenient tidbits of Romulan culture like the infanticide.
  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    His name is Tobol. Backwards it is Lobot, who is this guy from The Empire Strikes Back:

    http://www.jedidefender.com/collect92/lobot%20esb.jpg

    Spin the visor around and they look the same. Nice reference.
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  • davidwforddavidwford Member Posts: 1,836 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    griged32 wrote: »
    Also thought/hoped he'd make a good BOFF and inspired a future story for one... until he tried to kill me :P

    As did I. I was kind of looking forward to having him as an engineer or Tac officer. Oh, well. Maybe I can requisition a Romulan BOFF and make him look somewhat like Tobol.
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