Federation, Klingons or Romulans - who was the most powerful?

[Strange Citizen]

Hi all.

First off, before I begin, I'd like to say that although the Romulans' military power in comparison to the others is worth discussing as well, I personally think it is already slightly better established - at least between the Federation and the Romulans.

For example, it's made clear in a fair number of TNG episodes that any serious conflict (such as a war) between the Federation and the Romulan Empire would be disastrous, presumably for both sides. This implies they are roughly on an equal footing. So there's not much doubt there. As for whether the Klingons and the Romulans are equally matched to each other or not, that is less clear. Any thoughts on this would be interesting.

Here's the meat of the issue I have, though. The Klingons' military power in comparison to that of the Federation is never really talked about much. Now, one could say that this is because it's a non-issue, given that they are allies in the TNG era and onwards (apart from that brief period for a year or two in DS9). However, this is a problem when it comes to one particular episode. I'm talking about Yesterday's Enterprise.

This is something that has always bothered me, mostly because the reasons for it are never really made clear: in Yesterday's Enterprise, the Klingons are on the brink of defeating the Federation. What are the reasons for this? I don't remember it ever being explained.

As for how it relates to the 'normal' universe, one could say that the brief conflict between the two powers in DS9 pretty clearly establishes that they are evenly matched, unless I'm remembering that incorrectly. But it's still never made entirely clear throughout any of the series which of the two is more or
less powerful.

In a nutshell, and bringing back the Romulans here as well, I find it hard to believe that all three powers are simply at almost the exact same level militarily speaking (in terms of both quality and manpower), because it just doesn't make sense - with territories that size, there would have to be differences, surely? Also, we know their ships are most definitely not always evenly matched.

Hopefully should make for an interesting discussion.

 

[T'Girl]

In terms of their smell, it's the Klingons hands down.

 

[Robert Comsol]

This is something that has always bothered me, mostly because the reasons for it are never really made clear: in Yesterday's Enterprise, the Klingons are on the brink of defeating the Federation. What are the reasons for this? I don't remember it ever being explained.

According originally to "The Emissary" set in 2365 the Federation and the Klingon Empire had still been at war 75 years earlier (i.e. 2290). According to “Yesterday’s Enterprise” and Lt. Castillo the Federation and the Klingon Empire “were negotiating a peace treaty when I left.” (2344).

With ST VI: TUC (2293) the premise had apparently changed. “The Emissary” was still okay in the big picture of the Grand Unified Theory, but because of TUC’s retroactive continuity the statement of Lt. Castillo know somehow looked weird. I find the whole idea that the Klingons could possibly have had the patience to come to the negotiation table, leave it, wage war, come back, leave again, wage war etc. - for a period of at least 50 years! – to be somewhat hard to believe, considering the Klingon temperament featured in TNG (They are a race of warriors, not negotiators, right?).

There is an alternate explanation but it’s not very popular here, to say the least.

The accounts of Guinan and Sela in “Redemption II” – explaining to Picard how Sela could possibly be the daughter of Tasha Yar – do not match what actually happened in “Yesterday’s Enterprise”. Shortly after finishing “Redemption II” its director David Carson stated that events in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” took place in a “parallel timeline” (“parallel universe” in 2008). Of course events in a parallel universe don’t necessarily need to match events and their chronology in ours, thus it’s possible that in the parallel universe of “Yesterday’s Enterprise” the Federation and the Klingon Empire were still at war in 2344 while they had already achieved some kind of peace treaty 50 years earlier in ours.

Bob

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I would say the war in DS9 is not a very good barometer of the comparative strength between the Klingons and the Federation. It was short and relatively low impact - mostly relegated to ship-to-ship battles and very minor invasions. The Federation didn't really have their heart in it and the Klingons were mostly focused on their invasion of Cardassia (which was supposed to be a front for the Dominion, who the Klingons clearly considered the more dangerous enemy).

I'd be inclined to say that the Feds and Klingons probably were more or less evenly matched during TOS. The Klingons would have hit a low point around TUC (almost everyone on both sides in that film seemed inclined to believe that attacking the Federation was basically a hail mary move). Then the peace treaty is signed and the Klingons stopped wasting the vast majority of their resources and efforts constantly trying to thwart the Federation. Over a century, this could have made them much more powerful than they originally were. The Federation would grow more powerful as well, but due to its nature would usually only devote its resources to military power when it clearly has no other choice - something that doesn't really happen until the Federation/Cardassian War. That war may be a more interesting barometer (in combination with the later klingon war) - for some reason, the Cardassians were apparently strong enough to be a major threat to the Federation - enough of a threat to make the DMZ an attractive option, despite the fact that the Feds never ceded inhabited planets to their enemies before. Yet the Klingons seem capable of walking all over the Cardassians. Part of that is because Cardassia is in revolution, yet the military seems relatively intact... Unless it was the obsidian order that made them so dangerous?

Overall I'm inclined to believe the Klingons may truly be stronger than the other powers in the 24th century (though there is no smoking gun), possibly because of the peace with the federation. Which of course doesn't really explain Yesterday's Enterprise at all, since they never signed a peace treaty in that world. Maybe the Klingons just got lucky with their Hail Mary pass? A succesful surprise blitzkrieg into the heart of the federation could potential hamstring Starfleet while at the same time providing the Klingons with the resources they needed to get back on their feet. After that, 50 years of war is plenty of time for momentum to shift significantly in almost any direction imaginable.

 

[T'Girl]

in Yesterday's Enterprise, the Klingons are on the brink of defeating the Federation. What are the reasons for this? I don't remember it ever being explained.

There is a school of thought that the Federation wasn't losing that war, Captain Picard out and out lied to Captain Garrett as to the current state of events because he wanted her to voluntarily take her ship back to it's certain destruction.

Picard lacked the ability to simply order Garrett to return to her own time, he told her of the surrender of the Federation to the Klingons immediately after she told him that she intended to stay in the 24th century.

Honest persuasion didn't work, so Picard employed deception.

and bringing back the Romulans here as well, I find it hard to believe that all three powers are simply at almost the exact same level militarily ...

While powerful, I never believed that the Romulans were as powerful as either the Federation or the Klingons.

With ST VI: TUC

Any "peace" resulting from the events of that movie might have lasted about as long as it took the ink to dry on the treaty.

It would agree with the overall Trek history if the conference shown at the end of TUC had little long term impact.

 

[Robert Comsol]

Picard lacked the ability to simply order Garrett to return to her own time, he told her of the surrender of the Federation to the Klingons immediately after she told him that she intended to stay in the 24th century.

Honest persuasion didn't work, so Picard employed deception.

?!? The "other" Picard may have been a bumbling captain (compared to his XO) but he didn't act out of character. Can we please take a look at the actual context of the scene, you are referring to?

GARRETT: No, I suppose not. You don't belong in our time any more than we belong in yours. To be honest, Picard, a significant number of my crewmembers have expressed a desire to return, even knowing the odds. Some because they can't bear to live without their loved ones, some because they don't like the idea of slipping out in the middle of a fight. But I have told them that in the here and now, the Federation needs another ship against the Klingons. And we'd better get used to being in the here and now.

PICARD: But if you go back, it could be a great deal more helpful. The war is going very badly for the Federation, far worse than is generally known. Starfleet Command believes defeat is inevitable. Within six months we may have no choice but to surrender.

A closer look at the tactical display in the war room reveals 9 red Klingon markers opposite only 4 white Starfleet markers which I think brutally and sufficiently illustrates how bad the war is going for the Federation.

There's is neither proof or hint that Picard violates his first duty to the truth. He persuaded Captain Garrett but didn't deceive her.

While powerful, I never believed that the Romulans were as powerful as either the Federation or the Klingons.

Agreed, The Making of Star Trek states that the Romulan Star Empire encompasses several star systems, but also says that the Klingons are more “powerful” than the Romulans.

Interestingly, both “Errand of Mercy” and “The Day of the Dove” seem to describe the Klingon situation to be comparable to Japan just before it entered war against the USA (= UFP).

Any "peace" resulting from the events of that movie might have lasted about as long as it took the ink to dry on the treaty. It would agree with the overall Trek history if the conference shown at the end of TUC had little long term impact.

So everything our protagonists did in ST VI: TUC accounted for nothing?

Looks to me that the Khitomer Accords were successful. “Camp Khitomer” is apparently inspired by “Camp David”, and the “Khitomer Accords” by the Camp David Accords which ended hostilities between Israel and Egypt.

I really don’t see the need for double-guessing when the obvious inspirations (and their positive consequences) are crystal clear.
One of the intentions of ST VI was to showcase the foundation laying of the Federation-Klingon Alliance seen in TNG and beyond.

Bob

 

[Marsden]

Including alternate realities/parallel universes in comparison makes things much harder.

Maybe in the "Yesterday's Enterprise" timeline, there was no Praxis incident and the Klingons were much stronger, not having to overcome that calamity and also not having a similar Khitomer Accords.

When asking this type of question, simple fleet strength is not enough, though. Sticking to the "Prime" storyline, I think the Federation is the most powerful, enough to beat them both in a war.

Does this mean the Federation would conquer them? No.

The Federation is rarely, possible never, an aggressor and would be fighting a war of defense with possible assualts on the enemy holdings only to stop their ability to attack the Federation. The basis for this is the Federations strong economy and it's greater ability to recruit/rebuild as opposed to the Klingon and Romulan capability. In other words, the Klingons and Romulans, due to their hunter/conqueror or imperialistic attitudes are already fielding as much ships as they can while the Federation has an exploration and defense force that can be greatly expanded if the need arrises.

 

[Robert Comsol]

In other words, the Klingons and Romulans, due to their hunter/conqueror or imperialistic attitudes are already fielding as much ships as they can while the Federation has an exploration and defense force that can be greatly expanded if the need arises.

Exactly. This would explain Mara’s statement / justification in “Day of the Dove” – “We have always fought. We must. We are hunters, Captain, tracking and taking what we need. There are poor planets in the Klingon systems, we must push outward if we are to survive.” – and how the Battle of Donatu V 25 years prior to TOS remained “inconclusive” (suggesting equal Klingon and Starfleet strength).

Maybe in the "Yesterday's Enterprise" timeline, there was no Praxis incident and the Klingons were much stronger, not having to overcome that calamity and also not having a similar Khitomer Accords.

According to the original premise of “Yesterday’s Enterprise” events took place in our universe but the point of timeline divergence was in 2344 when the Enterprise-C failed to “return” (from the future) to the Battle of Narendra III (probably to buy one or some Klingon outpost survivors the time to escape and to live to tell the real story, i.e. that the Romulans had been the attackers and not Starfleet). I.e. everything that happened before 2344 was the same that happened in our universe.

Including alternate realities/parallel universes in comparison makes things much harder.

How comes? Relocating events in “Yesterday’s Enterprise” into a parallel universe (“Redemption II” provides the canon means) enables us to skip a bunch of weird rationalizations, we’d otherwise have to come up with, insisting it’s just an alternate timeline of our universe. The advantages are

• No need to explain why there is still a Federation-Klingon war in 2344
• No need to explain the strange Starfleet uniforms of 2344 that have no chest insignias
• No need to explain why the latest phaser in 2344 is still the 80 year old TMP phaser (which had been already surpassed by others)
• No need to explain how Tasha Yar could have possibly been overlooked by Romulan intelligence after having been taken captive according to “Redemption II”
• No need to doubt the reliability of the Enterprise-D’s conference lounge wall sculpture display prominently featured in the first four seasons of TNG.

and last but not least

• Tasha Yar is keeping her “meaningful death” at the Battle of Narendra III (as intended by Ron D. Moore and David Carson and still as late as of 2008!)

Bob

 

[Hartzilla2007]

for some reason, the Cardassians were apparently strong enough to be a major threat to the Federation - enough of a threat to make the DMZ an attractive option,

Which would be weird considering The Wounded had a single federation starship kicking the crap out of the Cardassians and the reason the federation didn't want a conflict with the Cardassians being because they were still recovering from Wolf 359.

 

[T'Girl]

Which would be weird considering The Wounded had a single federation starship kicking the crap out of the Cardassians ....

That single Starfleet ship destroyed a single Cardassian warship of unknown capacity and smaller size (by crew count), the other Cardassian ships destroyed by Maxwell were supply ships.

Per Picard, the Federation/Cardassian war killed millions.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Which would be weird considering The Wounded had a single federation starship kicking the crap out of the Cardassians ....

That single Starfleet ship destroyed a single Cardassian warship of unknown capacity and smaller size (by crew count), the other Cardassian ships destroyed by Maxwell were supply ships.

Yeah and Picard owned the standard Cardassian warship pretty easily with the Enterprise.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

In other words, the Klingons and Romulans, due to their hunter/conqueror or imperialistic attitudes are already fielding as much ships as they can while the Federation has an exploration and defense force that can be greatly expanded if the need arises.

Exactly. This would explain Mara’s statement / justification in “Day of the Dove” – “We have always fought. We must. We are hunters, Captain, tracking and taking what we need. There are poor planets in the Klingon systems, we must push outward if we are to survive.” – and how the Battle of Donatu V 25 years prior to TOS remained “inconclusive” (suggesting equal Klingon and Starfleet strength).

I'd say this is a perfectly reasonable position, but it is still worth making the distinction between potential power and actual power. The Federation probably has the potential to scale Starfleet up to a height that the Klingons would not be able to match, but that doesn't mean that they're more powerful than the Klingons until and unless they actually do so. It's not like the process is as simple as flipping a light switch - building ships and training crews takes a lot of time, especially since the Federation generally focuses on larger, more complex ships with larger crews.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Which would be weird considering The Wounded had a single federation starship kicking the crap out of the Cardassians ....

That single Starfleet ship destroyed a single Cardassian warship of unknown capacity and smaller size (by crew count), the other Cardassian ships destroyed by Maxwell were supply ships.

Yeah and Picard owned the standard Cardassian warship pretty easily with the Enterprise.

The outcome of a single battle between 1 Federation starship and 1 Cardassian warship is essentially meaningless unless you have a whole lot of background information to go along with it.

For instance, how many of those warships did the Cardassians have? (The Klingon fleet has tons of small BoPs which couldn't possibly stand up to the Enterprise 1 on 1 in a fair fight, but that doesn't mean the Klingon fleet is weak) Was that the most powerful type of ship they had? Was it old or state of the art? How many ships comparable to the Enterprise did the Federation have? (We are talking about the flagship of the fleet here - most Fed ships we see are significantly smaller)

What kind of tactics did the Cardassians use? Is it possible that three cardassian warships working together present a much larger danger than three cardassian warships working alone? (Or perhaps, larger than three Federation starships working together?) Is it possible that the Cardassian fleet had an abundance of highly intelligent commanders, and that the one facing the Enterprise just happened to be on the lower end of the tactical intelligence scale?

Etc, etc...

 

[Armored Saint]

In a nutshell, and bringing back the Romulans here as well, I find it hard to believe that all three powers are simply at almost the exact same level militarily speaking (in terms of both quality and manpower), because it just doesn't make sense - with territories that size, there would have to be differences, surely? Also, we know their ships are most definitely not always evenly matched.

Starfleet's functions aren't only militaries. In TUC, Klingons are in trouble because they allowed too much ressources into army. So, the UFP has a more balanced ressource allocation, but that implies Stafleet has a lower military potential.

A planet joins the Federation by a peaceful and voluntary process. Klingon and Romulan empires are used to invade and conquer planets. Romulans and Klingons are also ready to die in battle (or to eliminate thousand of soldiers in Unification), so they play harder in dirtier when they at war.

The UFP also tends to protect itself by containment. Neutral zones are prefered to heavy weaponry.

 

[T'Girl]

... and Romulan empires are used to invade and conquer planets.

When did we see the Romulans doing this?

 

[Armored Saint]

They tried to do that with Vulcan and Remians are a conquered and enslaved people.

The circumstantial evidence is also pretty strong:
- Why would they call themselves a Stellar Empire if their territory was only Romulus and Remus and they didn't have any desire to epxand it.
- Considering the militaristic and authoritarian style of its regime, the Romulan Empire clearly don't use the peacefull and friendly way of expansion used by the UFP.
- Their military activities were clearly not based on simply patrolling the Neutral Zone. Plasma torpedoes and cloaking devices were not created for defense and casual patrolling.

 

[T'Girl]

They tried to do that with Vulcan and Remians are a conquered and enslaved people.

Given the size of the "invasion force" it seems that there was someting else going on with those three ships in Unification.

Whether the reman are a completely new alien species, or an off-shoot of the colonizing Romulans is open for debate. If they are a type of Romulan, then they weren't invaded or conquered. Enslaved yes.

The circumstantial evidence is also pretty strong:
- Why would they call themselves a Stellar Empire if their territory was only Romulus and Remus and they didn't have any desire to epxand it.

The existance of a Romulan Senate might indicate a democratic system is in place. Planet might have peacefully joined, as opposed to being force into the Empire.

And we heard of a senator who was concidered a "man of the people." So senators might be elected from the general population.

Being called a "Empire" might not have any more meaning than being called a "Peoples Democratic Republic."

While I do feel that the Empire is smaller than the Federation, it could still be several dozen star systems with Class M worlds.

- Considering the militaristic and authoritarian style of its regime

There are fans right here on this board that believe that the Federation possesses a top down power structure, with the Council having the power to legally over-ride decisions made locally by the Members.

By all appearances the Romulan do have a civilian government.

, the Romulan Empire clearly don't use the peacefull and friendly way of expansion used by the UFP.

Not quite that clear.

- Their military activities were clearly not based on simply patrolling the Neutral Zone. Plasma torpedoes and cloaking devices were not created for defense and casual patrolling.

My own country employs stealth aircraft and ships, and for decade used ECM.

How is a plasma torpedo really so different than a photon torpedo? By the episode The Deadly Years the Enterprise was already able to handle multiple direct hits.

Plasma torpedoes were already yesterdays technology.

 

[varek]

Although not canon, in the books after the Borg invasion the Federation had to assist the Romulans with food. So, the Federation was definitely in a stronger position than the Romulan Empire. The Klingons sometimes needed help, but they seemed to manage with less.

 

[TheAdmiralty]

It's always seemed to me that the Klingons/Romulans had very powerful weapons (especially the Romulans) but were less technologically advanced, so their shields/sensors and other things like that wouldn't be as good. The TOS era did seem more evenly matched.

 

[ragnar]

“Warning spoiler alert”

I’ve read most of the prime timeline books from next generation, voyager, titan, ds9 and the Typhon pact etc. The trek story is well evolved and developed in the book series. I recommend them as they explain answers not only to this question but lots of others as well, like the origin of the Borg as example. Now to who would be more powerful? I guess this would depend on when. So let’s just start in the late 24th century early 25th century. By this era the federation is the undisputed super power of the alpha quadrant and one of the major powers in the entire galaxy. They not only have the raw resources since their territory is the most vast of all alpha quadrant powers. In the late 24th century it’s over 8000ly wide and 2000ly deep. But it’s not just geography, ships or the technology alone. The Federation seems to have struck just the right balance of all aspects of a successful civilization. One that is destin to encompass the Milky Way galaxy (Q). The Federation also has the security, freedom and liberty necessary for every citizen to reach their maximum potential with no barriers or class structures. But it is designed around allowing the individual being given the tools, the opportunity and the choice to develop into whatever they desire. This has fostered the most productive and happy citizens possible. Certainly the most productive, fruitful, rich and diverse society in the Milky Way. Allowing all the intellectual resources from all their member worlds and allies to work together efficiently and seamlessly with little to no barriers to achieve successe. Thus this model maximizes problem solving and technological advancement that moves at a much faster pace as opposed to closed rigid totalitarian societies like the breen, romulan Kazan, or the tzhencathe. And since they have trillions of citizens along with hundreds of member worlds and powers that encompass nearly an astonishing 100,000 star systems. Thus Enabling them to exploit enormously vast amounts of hard, soft, Biological and intellectuall resources. Giving the federation the ability to manufacture materials, products and ships at a astonishing rate, akin to the US in WWII. By 2950’s the federation Starfleet consisted of over 75,000 capital star ships and space stations. And a merchant fleet nearly a astonishing number of 150 million merchant vessels. Tacticaly their technology in this era gives them a huge edge to most all rivals. For example the federation has perfected quatum slipstream drive which is faster than the Borg trans warp, making a trip to the delta quadrant in a matter of hours to a couple days. Tacticaly their space stations and vessels have a regenerative abalative and atomically regenerative nanite driven reactive type armor similar to the armor seen in the last voyager episode. They use multiphasic,regenerative,temporal type shielding, reinforced by zero point dark energy fed into the shield matrix via magnetic energetic particle transfer. These shields are designed to stand up to the most lethal threat weaponry including the Borg. This is amongst the most resilient sub space graviton shielding in the known galaxy. Their ships have the best sensors capable of analyzing subatomic particles and energies vast distances, in some cases tens of thousands of light years. The federation and allies share the fastest artificial computing power yet designed. ComputE cores with hexagonal UHFTL quantum entangled tunneling methods. These sub atomic compute cores are made of self replicating particle lattice structures capable of “real time fuzzy logic sentients”. Coupled and Synergized with the very latest non sentient HFTL Bio neural technology. Giving such equipped systems unprecedented computing power capable of solving the most challenging technical and cosmological problems of our scientist with highest possible accuracy and precision. Their medical sciences are also the most advanced among the alpha quadrants powers. Humans for example can live up to an estimated 900 years. Their ships now have holographic crews that can activate and repair the ship via particle synthesis (Caliear/Borg technology) as well as act as holographic doctors or command personnel if the crew is killed or incapacitated. By this era the federation even sends a small fleet to the delta quadrant that proved more than a match for the devor and even the mighty voth got tought a lesson in the right way to conduct peaceful and fruitful negotiations. They also have some of the most powerful weapons. They still use phasers, pulse cannons and several types of torpedoes like quantum and transphasic torpedos. Weapons like the transphasic torpedo penetrates all known threat shields due to the weapon being “out of phase” with normal matter. This is similar to the krenim weapons In voyager but operate by oscillating both nutational phase state and dimensional amplification thus allowing them to not only penitrate threat vessel shielding but it also does not allow for easy or effective countermeasures or easy threat counter adaptation. They can also apply this type of modification to their beam weapons, particle cannons, phasers, plasma weapons and so forth. This made them very effective against threats the Borg (b4 Caliear transformation to the gestalt) and to species 8472 technology (b4 treaty of Boktu Krat) as well as other high technology and high threat species.They also can field other types weapons one example would be protomater, dark matter and vorzanuim based weapons. But these weapons are of such magnitudes they are rarely used and not generally fielded due to the hazzards not just to the enemy, but the delivery vehicle or vessel, and any friendly forces or even to nearby inhabited Star Sytems or space stations that is in the effective blast radius. The aforementioned weapons makes the federation and allies very formidable opponents to just about any threat species or vessel. By this time they also have developed a type cloaking technology that they call “ ultra low obserabilty or stealth”, technology similar to but in many ways rivals Romulan cloaking abilities most notably in its lower power Requirments and countermeasure detectabilty. Federation ships in this era are very advanced and are among the most powerful of all major powers. Another thing that makes them very strong is they have a lot of allies, very powerful allies united in a pact called the kitomer powers. During this time they have allies like the cardasian, xindi, ferengi, Klingons, the Gama quadrant dominion and the delta quadrant confederacy to name a few of the big ones, They all belong to a alliance called the kitomer accords. The aforementioned Delta quadrant ally the Confederacy is almost as large as the alpha quadrant federation but not quit advanced technologicaly. Their are many other smaller allies or regional powers about like Lyrans, citazians, tellurians, moxobara and the bodea just to name a few. In the delta quadrant, the federation has allies such as the trabe, hirogen, krenim and the zohl. Even the first federation member in the delta quadrant, the telaxians from telax prime.
They also have intimate knowledge of “caliear” and their technology. The Caliear is the most advanced civilization in the entire galaxy, if not our entire galactic super cluster. This technology was able to humble the Borg as easily as a Q snapping of a finger. In the future (beyond the 29th century) this technology gives them access to cool abilities controlling temporal and dimensional energies which they begin to field portals like the iconians. Side note the books also reveal what happend to the iconians. Hint it has something to do with Q. By the start of the 25th century they begin to create artificial wormholes by quantum stepping a element called “Corzanuim” out of small low mass singularities known to us now as black holes. They even can harness the energies of the omega particle by the late 31st century (Caliar tech). This is why the Q are so interested in the federation. The federation gains knowledge and power very, very rapidly uniting thousands of species and empires in a common peaceful political and economic organ. The Q know this future and are behind the scenes helping to guide them in the right direction, this also is keeping the timeline intact, (in our dimensional plane of coarse). By the 29th century the federation spans the Milky Way galaxy, and becomes the preeminent power. With most civilizations in the galaxy belonging to the federation by the 30th century. All I can say is read the books they are amazing if your into Trek. There’s so much in the books I would never be able to add it here but I tried to give as many examples as possible. Let me know what you think. Especially anyone who reads prom timeline books.p