Saturday, September 20, 2008

TOS #14: Balance of Terror

First look at a Romulan:


It's fascinating that the introduction to the Romulans essentially makes them out to be Romans with a deathwish. I wish that all Earthlings spent more time learning classical Earth history. Our entire world is the future created by the Romans. We live in the New Roman Times.

This episode is also clearly the precursor to Star Trek 2. There's even a scene of the Romulan captain pulling wreckage off of his 1st officer (or Centurion, as the case may be):

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