The following is a list of unnamed Romulan military personnel who lived during the 23rd century.
2266[]
Centurion []
The centurion served aboard the Praetor's flagship that attacked several United Federation of Planets outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2266. He was a close friend of his commander, and served with him in many campaigns. He believed in the right of the Romulan Empire to expand by use of any means necessary, including war. He was of the old ways, where you did not question the Praetor, but gave obedience. These beliefs were not entirely held by his commander. He was killed in battle with the USS Enterprise; he had pushed his commander to safety and was mortally injured by some falling debris in the bridge. After he succumbed shortly thereafter, his body, and some of the ship's debris, was later jettisoned in an attempt to deceive the Enterprise into believing the ship was destroyed. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
The centurion was played by actor John Warburton.
In the revised final draft script of "Balance of Terror", he was described thus; "The Centurion is a stocky man who walks with a painful-looking limp – but his much-scarred face is always quiet, no hint of complaint. He wears a helmet."
The First Edition of the Star Trek Customizable Card Game gives his name only as "The Centurion". The Second Edition of the Star Trek Customizable Card Game gives his name as T'Auethn (β).
External link[]
- Centurion(X) at StarTrek.com
- T'Auethn at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Commander 1 []
Around stardate 1709, this commander piloted the Praetor's flagship, a Romulan Bird-of-Prey, on a mission testing a cloaking device, and a new plasma weapon that destroyed United Federation of Planets outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. A veteran of countless military campaigns, he was an atypical commander who questioned the ethics of his mission and was wary of war. He believed that enough lives had been sacrificed for the Romulan quest for conquest.
He engaged USS Enterprise commanding officer James T. Kirk in a deadly game of cat and mouse. At first, the Romulan commander tried to return to Romulus to deliver the information on the new weapon. However, he ordered for the Bird-of-Prey to turn and fight when the Enterprise intercepted the vessel. When his ship was disabled by the Enterprise, he destroyed his own craft, rather than be captured. He told Kirk that he admired him and that they were alike, and could have been friends in another reality. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
In an alternate timeline, after his ship destroyed the USS Farragut, the Romulan commander responded to Captain Christopher Pike's attempts at hailing him, accepting a two hour cease fire to repair their ships. Weary of the endless war and able to remember a time from before it, the commander saw a chance at peace over his subcommander's objections. However, as the cease fire ended, a massive Romulan fleet, secretly summoned by his subcommander, arrived. The Romulan Praetor ordered the warbird destroyed for having been detected. The Romulan commander refused Pike's offer to beam over his crew and echoed his original timeline counterpart's sentiments about Kirk to Pike instead. His warbird was then destroyed by the Romulan fleet, much to the horror of the Enterprise crew. With the Romulans taking Pike's attempt at peace with the Romulan commander and later the Praetor as a sign of weakness in the Federation, they declared all out war. (SNW: "A Quality of Mercy")
This Romulan commander was played by actor Mark Lenard in TOS: "Balance of Terror" and by Matthew MacFadzean in SNW: "A Quality of Mercy".
In the revised final draft script of "Balance of Terror", the Romulan commander was described thus; "The Commander – tall, graying, tired-looking – wears a white uniform that distinguishes him from the other members of the crew. He wears no helmet – has ears like Spock."
A runner-up for this role was Lawrence Montaigne, who was eventually cast as Decius. For the role of the commander, he read with TOS Casting Director Joseph D'Agosta. However, understanding and relating to the part meanwhile proved too difficult for Montaigne. "The casting director said that 'the character was the Commander of an intergalactic space ship that was about to engage the Enterprise in battle.' Yeah, sure," the actor remembered. "So I read, thanked everyone, and split." A few days later, Montaigne received the news, via a phone call from his agent, that he hadn't been cast as the commander. He was disappointed by the news but could understand why he hadn't been chosen for the part, given his difficulty of comprehending it. When his agent told him Mark Lenard had been selected instead, Montaigne, aware of Lenard's work, begrudgingly accepted Lenard would make a much better Romulan commander than he himself would. During the same phone call, however, Montaigne also learned he had won the role of Decius. ("Prologue", A Vulcan Odyssey)
In William Shatner's novel The Return, the commander's House, one of the oldest and most esteemed on Romulus, fell into disgrace after this failure, and his granddaughter Salatrel (β) was responsible for resurrecting Kirk, which she did with the intention of killing him and restoring the family's standing.
In the Myriad Universes short novel A Less Perfect Union (set in an alternate timeline in which, firstly, an attack on Starfleet, perpetrated by Terra Prime in the episode "Terra Prime", succeeded, Earth then went into isolation, and the Federation was never formed), the commander impersonated Sarek in order to disrupt a 2264 diplomatic conference. As he looked so much like Sarek, no disguise was necessary to pull it off, and he openly wondered if the two shared common ancestry from before the Vulcan-Romulan split.
The Star Trek Customizable Card Game gives his name as Keras (β), which is "Sarek" spelled backwards. The video game Star Trek Timelines also calls him "Keras".
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Crewman 1 []
This crewman was a member of a Bird-of-Prey on a mission testing a cloaking device, and a new energy weapon that destroyed United Federation of Planets outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. In the confrontation with USS Enterprise, he was lost with his ship. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
The Romulan crewman was played by Walt Davis.
Crewman 2 []
This crewman was a member of a Bird-of-Prey on a mission testing a cloaking device, and a new energy weapon that destroyed United Federation of Planets outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. In the confrontation with USS Enterprise, he was lost with his ship. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
The Romulan crewman was played by Vince Deadrick.
Scope operator []
The scope operator served aboard the Praetor's flagship that attacked several United Federation of Planets outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2266. He was responsible for the operation of the vessel, as well as making sensor observations. The Scope Operator was killed when his Commander destroyed the ship following its defeat by the USS Enterprise. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")
The Romulan scope operator was played by actor Robert Chadwick.
In the revised final draft script of "Balance of Terror", the Romulan scope operator was referred to as a crewman.
The character is given the name Praxus (β) in the "Star Trek: Romulans" comic book adaptation of "Balance of Terror".
2268[]
Commander 2 []
In 2268, a female commander commanded the flagship that led the squadron consisting of a second sister ship and a Bird-of-Prey that captured the USS Enterprise after it illegally entered Romulan space. An ambitious officer, she felt that the achievement of her lifetime would be to bring the Enterprise back to Romulus intact. She saw that it would broaden the scope of her powers greatly.
She had a romantic interest in Spock. She invited him to dinner and went so far as to tell him that, unlike Vulcan women, Romulan females were passionate. She wanted Spock to serve at her side and take the Enterprise to Romulus. Spock reacted favorably to her advances.
After she believed Kirk had been killed, she expected Spock to agree to her wishes. In reality, Kirk and Spock were working under Federation orders to steal the cloaking device. Kirk was successful. The Commander ordered that Spock be executed, but she had herself beamed aboard the Enterprise with him. On the bridge, she ordered her flagship to destroy the Enterprise, but this failed, and the Federation starship managed to get away safely with the stolen Romulan cloaking device. While the device was turned over to Starfleet, Kirk said that the Commander would have been left off at the nearest Federation outpost. The Commander expected to be taken to the ship's brig, but was instead escorted to normal quarters. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
This Romulan commander was played by actress Joanne Linville. The character whispered her name into Spock's ear, and he commented how "rare and beautiful" it was, but it was never spoken aloud.
According to Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages (p. 270), Naren Shankar suggested bringing back the Commander in "Face Of The Enemy" but Linville was unavailable, and thus the character of Toreth was created instead.
The Star Trek Customizable Card Game gives her name as "Charvanek", as do the novels Vulcan's Heart and Exodus, which call her Liviana Charvanek (apparently anagramming her first name from Linville's appearance on The Twilight Zone as a character named "Lavinia") (β). The novel The Fate of the Phoenix calls her "Di'on Charvon" while Killing Time names her "Praetor Thea". The video game Star Trek Timelines calls her Nevesa.
Doctor []
This doctor served aboard the flagship of the three-ship squadron of Romulan battle cruisers that apprehended the USS Enterprise on an illegal run into Romulan space in 2268.
After Spock performed the Vulcan death grip on James T. Kirk, this Romulan doctor certified that he was in fact dead. When Christine Chapel later pointed this out to Leonard McCoy, McCoy revealed that Spock had actually given Kirk a nerve pinch to simulate death, fooling the Romulans and allowing for his infiltration of the Romulan ship. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
This Doctor was only mentioned in dialogue.
Guards 1 and 2 []
These Romulan guards escorted Spock and James T. Kirk to their commander's quarters following the capture of the USS Enterprise in 2268. Following their meeting, they escorted Kirk to the security room, and returned to the commander's quarters to stand guard.
When Spock and the commander left her quarters, to go to the security room, they tagged along. En route, the commander invited Spock to dinner. When he inquired if the guards were also invited to dinner, she dismissed them.
They later returned to the commander's quarters with Sub-Commander Tal, after Tal intercepted an alien communication from within the ship. When it dawned on the commander that the cloaking device may have been compromised, they escorted Spock along with Tal and the commander to engineering. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
The first guard was played by an unknown actor.
The second guard was played by Robert Strong. He identified as D'vano on a card from the Star Trek Customizable Card Game.
Guard 3 []
This guard served as a guard aboard the flagship of the three-ship squadron of Romulan battle cruisers that apprehended the USS Enterprise on an illegal run into Romulan space in 2268.
He was responsible for guarding the engineering section that contained the improved Romulan cloaking device. He encountered an unauthorized centurion in his section. Upon questioning the unauthorized officer's credentials, the guard was knocked out and the intruder was able to gain access to the secured area. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
The Romulan guard was played by actor Mike Howden.
Guard 4 []
The guard was posted at the security room aboard the flagship of the three-ship squadron of Romulan battle cruisers that apprehended the USS Enterprise on an illegal entry into Romulan space in 2268. He was responsible for operating the controls that granted access to the security room, including the time that Kirk was incarcerated to the security room. Following the arrival of Leonard McCoy, who was treating the injured Captain Kirk, he called the commander down to the holding area to talk with the doctor. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
This Romulan was played by an unknown actor.
Helmsman []
This officer served as the helmsman on board the Romulan flagship in 2268.
After the Enterprise escaped with the flagship's cloaking device, the helmsman was ordered by Sub-Commander Tal to pursue at flank speed. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
This Romulan was played by an unknown actor.
Officer 1 and 2 []
These two officers, one a centurion, served aboard the Romulan flagship that captured the Enterprise. When Sub-Commander Tal requested that Kirk and Spock transport over to their vessel to discuss the situation, Kirk, who felt no need to walk right into Romulan hands, was offered to have the two exchange hostages simultaneously beamed over while they were aboard the Romulan ship.
Once materialized the two officers drew their disruptors, much to Montgomery Scott's disgust, but were promptly taken to the brig. When Kirk later returned to the ship, he inquired if these two officers were aboard so that he could acquire one of their uniforms. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
These officers were played by unknown actors.
It is almost certain that they remained on board the ship as prisoners, like their commander, following the escape of the Enterprise from Romulan territory.
The officer on the right was given the name Gorrus on a card from the Star Trek Customizable Card Game.
Soldier []
This soldier served as a guard aboard the flagship of the three-ship squadron of Romulan battle cruisers that apprehended the USS Enterprise on an illegal entry into Romulan space in 2268.
He was standing guard in the ship's corridor when he encountered a centurion who claimed to have just transported aboard, having just escaped from the Enterprise. He then directed the centurion to Sub-Commander Tal was in control central. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
The Romulan soldier was played by actor Gordon Coffey.
Technical officer []
The technical officer served as an technical officer aboard the flagship of the three-ship squadron of Romulan battle cruisers that apprehended the USS Enterprise on an illegal trip into Romulan space in 2268. He discovered an unauthorized centurion in the ship's engineering section near the ship's cloaking device. Told that there was an intruder on board, the disbelieving technical officer attempted to arrest the centurion in question. The centurion attacked the technical officer and successfully knocked him out cold. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
The Romulan technical officer was played by actor Richard Compton.
Technician []
The technician served in the control central at the sensor station aboard the flagship Romulan battle cruiser that was part of the three-ship squadron that apprehended the USS Enterprise on an illegal into Romulan space in 2268. He picked up an alien transmission within the ship, and through triangulation, was able to determine it came from the commander's quarters. Following the theft of the ship's cloaking device, he viewed the Enterprise's escape through his sensor hood, which he reported to Tal. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
The Romulan technician was played by actor Robert Gentile.
Weapons officer []
This officer served as the weapons officer on board the Romulan flagship in 2268.
After the Enterprise escaped with the flagship's cloaking device, Sub-Commander Tal ordered the weapons officer to bring main batteries to bear on the Enterprise. As the ship approached the Enterprise, Tal ordered the weapons officer to stand by to fire main batteries as soon as their ship was within optimum range. Once they were within range, he was ordered to open fire, just as the Enterprise began to cloak. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")
This Romulan was played by an unknown actor.
2269[]
Commander 3 []
This commander commanded one of the two battle cruisers that caught the USS Enterprise trespassing in the Neutral Zone in 2269.
Despite Captain Kirk's attempt to explain the ship's unintentional presence in the Zone, the Romulan commander, who refused to hear Kirk's words, was adamant on enforcing the Neutral Zone treaty. With that said, and ordered Kirk to surrender the Enterprise, thereafter, the crew would be dropped off at the nearest outpost guarding the Zone.
While giving Kirk five minutes to inform the crew of the ship's surrender, Kirk realized that the Romulans were waiting for the Enterprise, confronted him with regards to the Vendorian spy they employed. The Romulan commander disavowed all knowledge of such a ploy, and gave Kirk one last chance to surrender, or risk being destroyed.
Shortly thereafter, the commander's ship opened fire on the Enterprise. The Enterprise retaliated, disabling the propulsion systems of the Commander's ship, and disabling the power supply of the second vessel. Fearing that the Enterprise had captured their spy the Romulan commander ordered his ships to retreat and allowing the Enterprise to leave the Zone uncontested. (TAS: "The Survivor")
The Romulan commander was voiced by James Doohan.
The novelization of "The Survivor" (as published in Star Trek Log 2) gives this character the name Larus.
2270[]
Commander 4 []
This commander was the commander of the small task force of Romulan warships that ambushed the USS Enterprise near the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2270. (TAS: "The Practical Joker")
This Romulan commander was voiced by Animated Series producer Norm Prescott.
Crewman 3 []
This crewman served on a ship that was part of the small task force of Romulan warships that ambushed the USS Enterprise near the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2270.
He noted to his commander, following the encounter with an balloon resembling the USS Enterprise, that there was no radio response from the large ship. Then, as they pursued the "real" Enterprise through an energy field, he noted to the commander that the ship's instruments were useless in this field and that they had lost contact with the Enterprise. (TAS: "The Practical Joker")
This Romulan crewman was voiced by Animated Series producer Lou Scheimer.
The novelization of "The Practical Joker" in Star Trek Log 6 gives him the name Varpa.
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