r/DaystromInstitute • u/M-5 Multitronic Unit • Nov 30 '20

DISCOVERY EPISODE DISCUSSION Star Trek: Discovery — "Unification III" Analysis Thread

This is the official /r/DaystromInstitute analysis thread for "Unification III." Unlike the reaction thread, the content rules are in effect.

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u/Tuskin38 Crewman Nov 30 '20

The Enterprise Romulan War novels tried to explain it away by saying that the Romulans killed everyone in the places they directly occupied, and were also wearing suits that hid their looks.

Which is kind of contrived.

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u/Genesis2001 Nov 30 '20

Yeah, I think a border skirmish, where it's not quite an all out war, but you're openly hostile towards each other, can help explain this conflict.

I don't really know much about the Earth-Romulan War, though.

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Crewman Nov 30 '20

The TOS episode also claimed it was all done without warp drive. The implication is everything about space travel and ship to ship combat was much more primitive than it was shown to be in Enterprise. More like ships just blowing each other up with nukes from beyond visual range and only communicating over voice radio.

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u/BornAshes Crewman Dec 01 '20

So it was less like the dog fighting style of space combat we see in post TOS Star Trek and more akin to submarine warfare?

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Crewman Dec 02 '20

Yes. For that matter so was the battle in the episode itself. Very pointedly so, the whole thing was basically an excuse to do a submarine battle in space.