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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   no_email@invalid.invalid wrote:   
   > anim8rfsk  wrote:   
   >> Rhino  wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-01-09 4:49 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>>> Ubiquitous  wrote:   
      
   >>>>> The fourth and final Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, Star Trek:   
   >>>>> Nemesis, put a nail in the coffin of what was—at the time—a dying   
   >>>>> Star Trek franchise. Star Trek: Nemesis saw Captain Jean-Luc Picard   
   >>>>> (Patrick Stewart) confront a younger clone of himself, Shinzon (Tom   
   >>>>> Hardy), who had been> created by Romulans to secretly replace Picard.   
   >>>>> Shinzon had been discarded to the mines of Remus   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Hey! Look! They got the name of the planet wrong!   
   >>>>   
   >>> Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Romulan Empire centered on two   
   >>> planets, Romulus and Remus, which (probably not coincidentally) are the   
   >>> names of the founder of Ancient Rome here on Earth?   
   >>>   
   >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus   
   >>>   
   >>> I haven't seen all of the movies or all of the series but isn't a two   
   >>> planet base for the Romulan Empire mentioned in one of them? Or am I   
   >>> muddling mythology and Star Trek lore?   
   >>   
   >> The first time we ever see the Romulans in Star Trek TOS "Balance of   
   >> Terror" we also see this map which subsequent tricks got wrong   
   >>   
   >> https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSELhX7B   
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   >>   
   >> Note that the name of the second planet is ROMII.   
   >>   
   >> "Remus" is just another TNG mistake.   
   >>   
   >> There are multiple fan wanks for this. One is that Remus is the third   
   >> planet in the system. The one they don't talk about. The other is that   
   >> Remus is an alternate name for Romii. But the real answer is the TNG just   
   >> got it wrong.   
   >   
   >The silliest thing about it all is that an alien civilization many light   
   >years from Earth just happened to name themselves and their planets after   
   >two characters from human mythology.   
      
   Obviously, the Roman Empire existed when they observed Earth, thought it was   
   cool,   
   and modelled themselves after it.   
      
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