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"There comes a time in a man's life that you cannot know. When he looks down at the first smile of his baby girl and realizes he must change the world for her. For all children. It is for her that I am here. Not to destroy the Romulan Empire, but to save it. For months, I tried desperately to persuade the High Command that another war would destroy the Empire. They got tired of my arguments. Finally I was censured, sent off to command some distant sector. This was my only recourse. I will never see my child smile again. She will grow up believing that her father is a traitor. But she will grow up. If you act, Picard. If we stop the war before it begins."

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Not staying neutral about this: The best Romulans in Star Trek

By Ames

Guess who’s BACK? Last week we covered their logical counterparts in our best Vulcans of Trek blogpost, and this week we’re shining the spotlight on the other pointy-eared race that takes up most of the Beta Quadrant. We meet a good number of them, especially in more recent series like Picard, so get ready for a lot of scheming as A Star to Steer Her By picks our favorite Romulans!

Fire up your cloaking device, put Geordi in the Manchurian Candidate machine, and clone up some Picards: we’re setting course for the wrong side of the neutral zone! Follow along with our top Romulans below and/or on this week’s podcast episode (discussion starts at 56:02). You’re in for some absolute candor with these picks.

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Caitlin – It’s a faaaaaake

Keras

Vreenak

Rakal

There are secrets getting revealed in Caitlin’s three choices. Keep your lips sealed when you see past the cloaking device for the first time and get our first glimpse of an ever-elusive Romulan, when you see the shady deals the Romulans make with the Dominion and a senator tries to spill the beans on a truly nefarious Federation plan that gets him killed, and when you get to watch the best work we’ve seen out of Marina Sirtis when Troi gets abducted and needs to out-Romulan one of our other favorite Romulans, as you’ll see…

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Jake – Warbirds of a feather cloak together

Jarok

Toreth

Bochra

All of Jake’s faves end up being ethical people when you get down to it, with little to no actual scheming to speak of (shocking!). Once they decloak their true selves, you get to really see a Romulan defector who’s sick of all the corrupt politics, the flipside of that coin in a shrewd and principled commander who nearly takes out Picard and the Enterprise-D, and an enemy officer who chooses to work together with his new best friend Geordi La Forge to get through a disaster.

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Chris – I could have called you friend

Keras

Toreth

R’Mor

Chris’s three Romulans are all individuals with whom we can empathize. Why, in a different reality, we can absolutely envision getting to know more of the Romulan commander who nearly matched wits with the first Starfleet captain to make visual contact with their race, more of the other Romulan commander who had an entirely understanding grudge against their culture’s shadow agency that totally fucked her over before, and more of the scientist who went above and beyond to help a stranded crew whom he’d otherwise call enemies.

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Ames – The plot thickens!

Sela

Nevesa

Narek

Everything in the lives of my picks is an opportunity to make a convoluted Rube Goldberg machine on the off chance it might reach an unearned conclusion. From the sheer gall of introducing Tasha Yar’s half-Romulan daughter who has it out for Picard, to the badass Romulan commander who tries to seduce Spock over to their side, to the blacksheep brother from season one of Picard who gave a whole lot of added depth to this shady, mysterious, kinda sexy race, these famous schemers have it all figured out… until they don’t.

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We hope you chose to live with all of those difficult choices. We’ve got even more on deck when we explore another alien race next week, so keep your sensors trained right here! You can also continue on our voyage through Voyager on SoundCloud, come up with some dastardly schemes with us on Facebook and Twitter, and remove the coat hangers from your jackets before wearing them.

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Y’all gotta check out these cool Trek Pumpkins from “The Pumpkin Wizard”

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Top 3 Star Trek The Next Generation characters

By Ames

You’ll remember that for our podcast coverage of Voyager episode “Flashback” featuring Hikaru Sulu, A Star to Steer Her By picked our three favorite The Original Series characters. Now we’re feeling inspired seeing more familiar faces in the Delta Quadrant with both Reg Barclay and Deanna Troi appearing in “Pathfinder,” so we’re doing the same for our favorite minor or one-off characters from The Next Generation!

Some of the characters we’ve picked have that eccentric, colorful kind of energy that would feel at home in our original TOS lists, and some have a more cerebral complexity that the different series of the 90s are more known for. We see some strong patterns forming in our lists below, along with a very clear winner. Place your bets now as we revisit the adventures of the Enterprise-D below and in our discussion on this week’s podcast episode (topic starts at 56:20). Engage!

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Chris – Revenge of the nerds

K’Ehleyr

Berlinghoff Rasmussen

Reginald Barclay

All of Chris’s picks have Big Nerd energy in their own ways and may get ostracized from their respective cultures a little bit for it. From our girl K’Ehleyr, a half-breed fully accepted in neither her Klingon nor her human races; to Berlinghoff Rasmussen, a time-traveling weirdo who reminds us a lot of Chris’s TOS fave Harry Mudd; to the constantly trampled upon everyman Reginald Broccoli. At least, I think that’s his name…

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Jake – Gone too soon

K’Ehleyr

Doctor Katherine Pulaski

Alidar Jarok

We all really wish all of Jake’s faves had stuck around! But sadly, our favorite Klingon gets murdered by Duras, leaving us only with her terrible son to remember her by. We were just starting to really get a feel for Dr. Pulaski as CMO of the ship before her season was over. And one of Jake’s favorite Romulans couldn’t live in a world where defecting from Romulus proved to all be for nothing. Well, nothing but a damn good episode.

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Caitlin –  MILFs in space

Doctor Katherine Pulaski

K’Ehleyr

Lwaxana Troi

We see some familiar faces again in Caitlin’s list. Not only do all of her picks run their corners of the world like absolute bosses, but they look freakin’ hot doing it too! We’ve got the stone cold Katherine Pulaski who, fans will remember, used to nail Riker’s dad; yet again, K’Ehleyr is here breaking hearts, kicking ass, and taking names; and the galaxy’s biggest cougar Lwaxana Troi rounds things out with her trademark lust for all of life!

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Ames – Unbreak my heart!

K'Ehleyr

Hugh

Timicin

My picks are giving me the feels all over again. Why?! Why couldn’t that honorless Duras have taken Alexander instead of K’Ehleyr?! I also have the softest of hearts for our BFF (Borg Friend Forever) Hugh and his touching friendship with Geordi. And another of the podcast’s favorite overall episodes, the legendary “Half a Life” is made so tragic by the nuanced and yet powerful presence of Timicin. Who else could tame Lwaxana’s heart?

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Just like in our Best Klingons post, K’Ehleyr absolutely runs away with the win, yet again sweeping the lists of all of your hosts here. Pour out a glass of bloodwine for our hands-down favorite character from The Next Generation, and stay in our tractor beam because we’re keeping the blog on the Enterprise-D for a couple more weeks while the podcast is simultaneously on the Voyager over on SoundCloud (or whatever podcast thing you like). You can also like us on Facebook and Twitter, and we’ll see you in Ten Forward!

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"I no longer live here. Turn it off. This, this is my home now. My future. I have sacrificed everything. It must not be in vain. Arrange a meeting between myself and Captain Picard. Tell him Admiral Jarok wants to see him."

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"I must see your captain immediately."