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A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.

Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman

Directed by Chris Fisher


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    1 year ago

    Maybe they first arrived in Romania, centuries ago, or some such.

    Then once Earth discovered Romanians (or whatever) are actually different species, it put a lot of things in perspective.

    (like, the legends of vampires?)

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            1 year ago

            TOS explained our ancient deities as aliens (basically), why not an entire segment of earth people? :D I guess it depends on just how many of the Lanthanites there were on Earth. But there’s a bit of a clue that there’s at least enough that there’s a known accent, even if it’s not very common.

            Could perhaps be that at one time there was a large population, but they decided to vacate Earth after coming out, so their accent is largely unknown to the general population?

            i’d guess probably more like they just had a very small community, though, not like an entire nation.

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        1 year ago

        Romanians and Romani aren’t the same thing. But yeah, probably best not to imply that any human ethnicity are secret aliens.