Whenever archers in trouble *a wild shran appears*

“Xenophobic Space Elves with GoT as required reading.”, so accurate.

Andorians are awesome.

I suspect Romulan ground troops had some sort of disruptor kill-switch that vaporized the body upon death/defeat.

"Romulans were never unmasked after a battle." Actually, I think Picard explains that pretty well, where the Romulan attackers basically made sure they went explodey before they were captured and anyone close enough in the area. Just a thought.

Andorians, one of the reasons Blue is one of the favorite federation color

Back in the 80's, when the Next Gen era alien guidebook came out, I always read and re-read the Andorian and Tellarite pages and wondered why the races never got the Next Gen treatment. Especially after Mick Fleetwood played that fish guy in season 1. Like wtf dudes

5:00 ; "Yay surreptitious sharing." *The Tizard Mission* has entered the chat.

Man, this period of time would make a GREAT TV series. *LOOKS AT ENTERPRISE...*

"Altair 6".... Nice one haha On topic: i always thought the Remans where the ground troops the Romulans used. That way lore would stay in tact in a really logical way

Shran's family goes on to serve in Starfleet its implied in STO. The son or grandson commands a ship at the Battle of Starbase One against the Klingons. There could still be a Shran serving by the 24th century. STO implies the Shran family have always been starship officers. They could be a Starleet family the children always following in their parents footsteps encouragement and serving. FED patriots I guess.

These videos give me exact same nerdy delight that the tech manuals did when I was a kid. Ric's like "Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise" meets "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and I'm already looking forward to the next one!

I love the Andorians. But hey, Commander Shran was played brilliantly and won me over

one, the old school romulan ships are still awesome cool to me. two, Shran was a hero that deserves all the credit he is given

I honestly feel like writing a Romulan War book based on the USS Robin.

I would strongly suspect that Romulans being Vulcan-like was ultimately known to Star Fleet, but became sealed information. Vulcan being terribly important to the Coalition and then the Federation. Humans also having more than one complex about the Vulcans, and also more than a little xenophobia in general. An observation on the Vulcan side of things; well, Vulcans believing that following certain principles being necessary to be "Vulcan". The idea becoming one of culture more than biology. I would hypothesize that this curtailed the growth of Vulcan colonies considerably. The idea of rogue colonies splitting off and diverging being anathema; which is interesting considering the concept of "IDIC". But the very real presence of Romulans as a side branch might have underscored the importance of rigidity, the end of Vulcan hegemony and the rise of the Federation and Star Fleet. Keeping info sealed, and such an extensive policy of containment of the Romulans might have been the price for Vulcan to join and cooperate with the Federation?

Ironically he DID then leave a lasting legacy since one of the coolest looking ships in the Star Trek universe is named after him.

This series is great. Please continue it , it's wonderful to learn all this lore

I really liked the look of Andorian ships in Enterprise. They looked mean.

5:30 ; Atlantis and Endeavour. And so completing the American space shuttle names.

This would imply the Federation was indeed a defense pact at least initially much as NATO is, despite TOS repeatedly stating that the Federation was not a military alliance but a group of planets United in their desire to explore. Of course, today we would probably assume the Federation is really a trade and mutual defense pact with Star Fleet as an united exploratory service, and civil securitt rather than a military service and hence had safeguards against being militarized or at least accountable to civilian oversight from the various governments in the Federation.

I find it amusing that most times the Federation is involved in a war, they always seem on the brink of collapse. Human-Romulan war, the Federation-Klingon War of 2256, and, of course, the Dominion War.

Really enjoying the early federation series. Nicely done.

Damn. This would have been amazing to see. If Enterprise hadn’t been cancelled, I imagine we would have had at least something related to the war

Loving these early federation videos Rick! I know how it ends, but I'm still at the edge of my seat! How will the Pink Skins pull it off!?

Thank you for making this video!

So both D'deridex and Valdore got late 24th century Warbirds named after them.

Yes, this is an awesome lore dump.

Thank you. Very good video on the early Federation... 👍

Fantastic Rick keep it up

Like always insightful and interesting, I do enjoy to wonderful work you put into your projects for the fans of Star Trek. Thanks for sharing the information with us, MAY YOU LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.

Great series man

I always found it hard to believe that absolutely no one saw what a Romulan looked like during the entire war.

i read this series years ago, it's pretty cool lol

I thought it was clearly established that nobody in the Federation, including the Vulcans, knew that Romulans weren't another species, until the encounter with Kirk's enterprise? There are so many retcons around the first war with the Romulans you get dizzy from the whiplash. I could swear I remembered an early version said it was thought in the days prior to real FTL travel, where it took many years to travel between them and with old school nukes against planets populations, further describing essentially the at the time current cold war, just in space.

More fascinating history from the novels.

Archer: ah the Romulans, the Dane Cook of the Star Trek universe

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Good timing on this cause i just finished enterprise on netflix

Star Trek Density is a great novel series and shows the true Star Trek post Nemesis. IMHO Picard isn’t Star Trek so is in a separate timeline with Discovery, Lower Decks and Kelvin timeline.

What if in an alternate universe humans and andorians became allies closer then vulcans. Humans would get more support in arms + shields + tractor etc. With their support towards vuclans ofc humans would be open minded but slightly biased towards vuclans (lairs) they lie about listen post etc. With archers more more supports towards andoria. Humans ships would be more thougher/more fire power. And shran + archer would team up with the xindi. Think humans would be better earlier then with vulcans 😑 The more i see early vulcans the more i miss trust them lol 😂

Of course the ROmulans lost at Altair... It's a haven of the BRotherhood

While I do like this series. I have been waiting for that Huttt video we were promised

DEN-eh-VA and Ader-ron-dak

I see that "Beneath the Raptor's Wing" is book 13 in the Star Trek Enterprise series. Would i need to read all the prior books, or could I pick it up there? I watched the series, so I am familiar with the characters. I see that book is part of a 2 book series with "To Brave the Storm" and there's another pair as a followup to those.

Sweet nod to Assassin's Creed! :) I'd be interested in seeing ur perspective on that series in videos Meanwhile thx for all the awesome S.T. content.

Besides the Aenar and how their planet is cold and lots of ice and those worms and maybe providing some military upgrades like phasers.... and their previous disagreements with the vulcans..... wish there could be a short story on an andorian captain in star fleet

They should have a Shran as the Security Chief on Lower Decks.. Jeffrey Combs FTW!

Question who would win in a war the iconians as we see them in Star Trek online or the reapers as we see them in mass effect 3 at the height of both their military might

Then 25 years later there was the Romulan-Klingon Sontaron-Federation War. 25 years later. The Federation-Cybermen War. Then in 2267 Kirk and the Federation met the Milky Way's and the Universes worst nightmare, The Daleks.

Fuck I love this era of star trek

Not that it matters, but it's pronounced "Ah-door-on-dack", its a mountain range in New York State. It's quite a beautiful place if you get a chance to visit.

A question. Is the Deneva you refer to the same one as seen in "Operation Annihilate"?

Like your channel. But how can you review and present Star Trek lore and then also claim to love the new Picard show?

Poor urht, always gettin’ isolated.

I must say... the books of the romulan war are realy fun to read.... I am personaly chewing up the continuation of the books with "rise of the federation" and cant help but to fall for the early portrait of the TREK, of pre-Kirk era. Too bad TV series did dwell too much on the Xindy and left just before the Romulan war. That would make it probably the best Trek on TV... at least in my eyes.

The Romulans might have used a client species from earlier conquests as ground troops, while pulling out all their true Romulan officers out as soon as the situation in space turned against them.

What were the sources for this video? What books?

I guess it's time for starfleet to step its game up!

Ugh, i need to get back into STO, soon as i get a bigger HD for my ps4 its back to active duty lol

It bothers me you're not showing off the NX refit for this.

This would have been great too see in enterprise season 5,6,7 should have been

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So was Surak's living soul, his katra lost forever after the explosion?

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Of alot of the so called contiuity problems Enterprise introduced the one that couldn't be defended was the Katra in Archer. By destroying Selea, you could essentially say the knowledge of that incident was lost and became legend. In other words, it fixed (sort of) a continuity issue while also moving the book plot along.

D'Daradex : I AM THE SENATE. I know, wrong franchies. Now who opened the reality crosser.

I remember when the planet was called Andor, not Andoria. When was that changed?

Xenophobic space elves with GoT as required reading material. Ahahahahaha I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Good one Rick. You got me there

How is it explained that Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew were so shocked when they finally saw a Romulan, if the Vulcans knew who they were at this time in the books?

That Romulan dude is the same guy playing Shao Khan in that awful second mortal combat movie. XD

Could an active Vulcan single handley beat the romulans by themselves

DeNEEva? You need to watch Operation: Annihilate!

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Paranoia is an emotion is it not?

Just Google Star Trek Lost Destiny.

Want to see some cool pre-Federation "fanon"? Check out the fan film "The Romulan War"! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtKCabSG0cColnU.html

please rick, do a video about the transporters in star trek do a video about the hutts slaves & do a video about the slaves costumes please do a video about how people in star trek & star wars get married & divorce

So Romulans deserved what Iconians did to them. *Vengeance for the fallen Humans, Andorians and Tellarites.*

It always annoys me when the non human characters get the shaft,

Your vocabuary quite hard to understan or maybe my english not too good

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I say again, I HATED THOSE BOOKS! Look up the Starfleet Museum (www.starfleet-museum.org/), much better and more consistent.

This should be the next tv show. Wtf was discovery. And even following the Pike story is not entertaining. And don’t get me started on Picard. What a piece of Stactchko.

I’m SO tired of seeing the stupid Golden Gate Bridge on every damn series or movie Hollywood makes! FFS other countries have more impressive bridges that that ugly old thing.

I hated almost everything at ST: Enterprise. It rewrote too much canon and created way too many continuity errors. TOS Balance of Terror clearly stated the Earth-Romulan War was mainly fought with long range nuclear missiles. The only thing ST:E got right was it depiction of the Andorians. For such a key Federation member, no other series or movie depicted a Andorran in a substantial role.