RobofNJ — 1 year ago(April 16, 2024 04:15 AM)

as well as Jarok are my favorite Romulans and I don't think the show was trying to portray the Romulans as Vulcans.
Tomalak was hilarious, ghetto, also likable. Jarok was impulsive and easily angered. And the soldier who was with Geordi was believable and pissed, and contrary to what idiots say I don't think he was anti-autistic (I think the Cardassians are far more anti-autistic and cold-blooded). Hating the blind has no parellels with hating the "deformed." It's a cvery different hatred altogether that goes back to Biblial times.
And the man who sits with Marc Alaimo's character in "The Neutral Zone" was ghetto too. And he came off like a street punk. The way he says, "To ask such a question implies we need permission. We don't." I saw the Mafia and Nuyorican Kings in him. I actually liked his character. Even Marc Alaimo's character really came off ghetto too.
The other Romulans probably were closer to the rational thinking types, like "Tin Man" and "The Mind's Eye." But I do contest that they are Vulcan. Sela and her officer in "Redemption" also don't come off like Vulcans. And Sela was very hot-tempered.
And in the ****ty 60s series they came off as way more impulsive. I don't think the Romulans had that rationalist attitude until later in season 4 of
TNG
. And even then it's not Vulcan in nature.