The Romulan Plot of TNG

[chaos42]

Over the course of season 3 on the romulans seemed to be conducting a series of plots to weaken the federation or to score some major victory over them =for example in season 3 with tomalak and the issue with jarok after the klingons mess that up they try and split the powers, its possible they intentionally put the scout ship into play so that they could discredit worfs father and strengthen duras, who is allied with them then theres the killing of kempec and duras attempts to take over. worf kills him and then the bit with geordi's brain washing the the entire klingon civil war and the last real bit we see that could be considered part of the plot is sela's attempt to take vulcan.
but i wonder if anyone has noticed any threads were we could wrap more of this stuff into a bigger overall romulan plot?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Whole Cardassian conflict was just a ruse by the Romulans to gain Federation confidence.

[chaos42]

i seriously doubt that

but this is something i think might be interesting what if after the failure of the trap with jarok that they decided to undermine the klingon federation relationship and they could have even picked worf because they knew he was on the enterprise as revenge, i just think it would be interesting to look at as a whole. What if its all a series of ploys by the same puppet masters in the romulan milliatary

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Romulans are responsible for Okana being thought of as a badass.

[CharlesPhipps]

Honestly, I feel like they could have used the Romulans for the Cardassians.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Honestly, I feel like they could have used the Romulans for the Cardassians.

That's what made the plan so brilliant.

Really though they do the same things for the same reasons essentially. The devil is in the details, which is mainly true because they didn't get into the Romulan society until Star Trek Picard.

[chaos42]

i actually really liked that. elements like traditional romulan homes have a false front door, it helped grow them, i think that we should get more romulan stuff to fill them out, with them now being refugees and everything and i hope we get more post tng star trek soon.

But i would like to see all the romulan plots and motives net worked together.

The first real incident is possibly the contagian and the iconian planet, it could be used as them doing intel gathing after they return and the incident of galordan core being them sending a cloaked scout ship to check works for more iconian tech as they know it exists now. plus that officers death which chuck suggested could be tied to the events of sins of the father.

Then we have Jaroks defection and the incident there were the romulans had the federation right were they wanted them if not for them getting the klingons to back them up.

Then sins of the father and the romulan ship captured by klingsons, duras is most likely already an ally of the romulans at this time as his father was as well its probably how their family has remained since the enterprise days as they kept getting dishonored by archer. so the romulans allow a scout ship that could prove duras's involvement but they tell him in advance so he can get ahead of it and make sure they blame worfs father a long time enemy of theirs and possibly as chuck suggested the one that the romulan who died cold be connected to, i don't think its because worf didn't save him but probably just because he was on the ship that didn't save him. as the romulan said he would rather die that have anything from a klingon in him.

so with worfs discomondation then we have kampec's death and gowron and duras competing for leadership and the romulan bomb, it was obviously a means of trying to kill gowron so duras could just take over once they knew picard was running things, and because duras is probably no match for gowron in the proceedings, look at what happens to him in the fight with worf during the fight hes trying to make deals but worf just keeps swinging and kills him.

after that we have the brain washing of geordi and the bit were they try again to cause an incident to break up the alliance. each one has been them trying to some how break the allience duras would most likely have ended it because hes pro romulan, secretly of course

there is also the matter of that exobiologist in drumhead though im not sure how that ties in

after that we see the klingon civil war and after that the plot by sela to attack vulcan and then the bits with the phase cloak and the dna puzzle plus the under ground rail road.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Freakin love the Romulans.

[chaos42]

the romulans are one of my favorite factions. but thats the point im getting at there could be a meta narrative of these events we could string together, also i forgot the events of data's day-the romulan spy bit, but either way if they ever do another show during the tng era i think doing something like that would be good.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

It's all hijinx though.

They're just perturbed by everything and have disdain for anybody they can't get to hate them.

It's just a sheer matter of their personality that they're super fucking put off by Starfleet being around especially when Enterprise becomes a blip on one of their ship's radar.