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2 episodes in and Avenue 5 is the funniest show I've see in the past few years. Hilarious.
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You also have part of your answer in your first part. Picard. Think Star Trek Nemesis. The Romulans tried to clone Picard in order to breed the perfect spy into the Federation. And when that plan fell out of favor, they just ditched the being onto their slave planet. Even a Picard hater in the Federation wouldn’t stand for that sort of diabolical scheme.Hey I didn't spoil anything. Trust me, don't worry.
As far as continued hostility towards the Romulans, I'm guessing there's a DS9 episode out there I either didn't see or forgot where they betrayed the Federation during the Dominion War or something maybe. But something made the Federation turn their backs on the Romulans as was shown in the 2009 reboot with Nero looking for revenge. And the Ferengi were allies with the Federation towards the end of DS9 IIRC.
Why was the Federation okay with the Klingon Empire, or whatever was left of it afterwards, but went cold on the Romulans?
Seems like someone has been keeping up with the Cardassians. ?Because Trek always took the easy way out and depicted the Klingons as an "empire" with no subjects.
I guess they did that with the Romulans, too, but it was also suggested over and over that the Romulans were just people too and we'd all be pals eventually.
The only empire we see with actual subjects is the Cardassians, and apparently they only had one occupied planet and not for very long. (And that was only in Deep Space 9; in TNG the Cardassians are said to have expelled the Bajorans, not occupied their planet). Curiously the occupation is said to have resulted in an absurdly small number of deaths over a very long period of time (something like 25 million on an entire planet over 100 years). Given how we count deaths from wars and natural disasters, it seems probable that the occupation really was as benign and possibly benevolent as the Cardassians say it was.
Do the Klingons not have something similar to the Obsidian Order/ Tal Shiar/ Section 31 equivalent? Seems kind of dumb for a major empire not to have an intelligence branch that can carry out covert operations.Fair enough, but Shinzen did go rogue, and I don't know, it's not like the Romulans being sneaky was ever a big secret itself. And the Federation has Section 31, Romulans have Tal Shiar, Cardassians have Obsidian Order. It still doesn't make sense compared to how readily they accepted the Klingons as allies. Their sense of honor was ultimately might makes right.
Do the Klingons not have something similar to the Obsidian Order/ Tal Shiar/ Section 31 equivalent? Seems kind of dumb for a major empire not to have an intelligence branch that can carry out covert operations.