Spoilers What did the Qowat Milat do, during the Dominion War?

[Unimatrix Q]

I wondered about this, since their introduction in PIC. But after the last Disco episode the question came to the forefront for me again.

Considering their order consists of battle
nuns, pledging themselves to lost causes, and the Dominion seemed to be winning the war at the beginning, could it be that some of them sided with the Federation and did some missions for them? Possibly even before the Romulan Star Empire entered the war?

Or did they stay inside romulan territory? What did they do, during these times?

 

[F. King Daniel]

The impression the shows give me is that until the fall of the Romulan Empire, they were pretty much kept to Romulus.

But if course they could do a show about a group of them going on adventures during the TNG era and it'd work. Being such a blank slate they can be retroactively put anywhere.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

The impression the shows give me is that until the fall of the Romulan Empire, they were pretty much kept to Romulus.

But if course they could do a show about a group of them going on adventures during the TNG era and it'd work. Being such a blank slate they can be retroactively put anywhere.

Considering that they were the arch enemies of the Tal Shiar, i think they have had similarly to them, approximately the same political influence and indepence.

Perhaps it was even possible for them to enter the war on their own or at least do some secret operations together with the Feds and the Klingons, without having to fear repressions from the romulan state.

 

[The Wormhole]

The impression I gathered from Picard and its tie-in novel The Last Best Hope, prior to the supernova the Qowat Milat were basically restricted to the frontier regions of Romulan territory helping defend the everyday civilians from the tyranny of the Romulan government and the Tal Shiar. So they likely never got involved in fighting the Dominion, unless the Dominion were attacking the planet they were on.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

The impression I gathered from Picard and its tie-in novel The Last Best Hope, prior to the supernova the Qowat Milat were basically restricted to the frontier regions of Romulan territory helping defend the everyday civilians from the tyranny of the Romulan government and the Tal Shiar. So they likely never got involved in fighting the Dominion, unless the Dominion were attacking the planet they were on.

Yeah, i remember. But if most of them were at the romulan frontier, they might have seen their share of the war.

And it seemed a bit, although they were enemies of the Tal Shiar, that they may have been recognized by the romulan senate.

If not, i guess they wouldn't have had planets of their own.

 

[1001001]

They were pledged to the Pakleds.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

They were pledged to the Pakleds.

If there still are Paklets in the 32nd century, after the destruction of the Paklet planet in Lower Decks, it's very likely that there are some still being pledged to the Paklet cause

 

[publiusr]

Ha!

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Think it's possible that there were some Qowat Milat on Betazed that helped the resistance on the planet, freeing it from Dominion occupation.

Maybe assassinating some high ranking Cardassians and Vorta.

And later helping the Cardassians against their Dominion overlords.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

If the Romulan government wanted to get rid of them, they would. Either by orbital bombardement, ground troops or systematic imprisonment for them and their supporters.

Absolute candor would make it easy to track down and eliminate them.
That nothing of this apparently happened and they have even their own planets, hints very strongly imho on the probability that they always were an official institution of the romulan state.

 

[The Wormhole]

That nothing of this apparently happened and they have even their own planets, hints very strongly imho on the probability that they always were an official institution of the romulan state.

On the other hand, there must be a reason they were restricted to the frontier regions and didn't appear to have a presence on Romulus or any of the Star Empire's core worlds.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

On the other hand, there must be a reason they were restricted to the frontier regions and didn't appear to have a presence on Romulus or any of the Star Empire's core worlds.

Good points, but on the other side nobody explicitely ever mentioned so far that there weren't any of them on Romulus.

If there really weren't any, it could also be that it has something to do with the laws and regulations in the RSE. Being only on frontier worlds might have something to do with keeping a balance between them and the Tal Shiar, who probably aren't allowed to have a presence on worlds where the Qowat Milat have bases.

 

[fireproof78]

Likely as not they were working against the Tal Shiar and their interests and were less concerned with the war. Even the military didn't like the Tal Shiar so their fighting against the hated organization would be more like the Robin Hoods of the Romulan way.

 

[Sci]

I wondered about this, since their introduction in PIC. But after the last Disco episode the question came to the forefront for me again.

Considering their order consists of battle
nuns, pledging themselves to lost causes, and the Dominion seemed to be winning the war at the beginning, could it be that some of them sided with the Federation and did some missions for them? Possibly even before the Romulan Star Empire entered the war?

I really like this idea. Maybe the Qowat Milat are the reason the Founders weren't able to wreck more havoc infiltrating the Federation and Klingon Empire -- maybe Q.M. operatives were able to track them down and covertly thwart some changeling infiltrators!

If the Romulan government wanted to get rid of them, they would. Either by orbital bombardement, ground troops or systematic imprisonment for them and their supporters.

Absolute candor would make it easy to track down and eliminate them.
That nothing of this apparently happened and they have even their own planets, hints very strongly imho on the probability that they always were an official institution of the romulan state.

On the other hand, maybe it's not so much that the Q.M. are an official part of the Romulan state as that they're an institution so culturally important and influential that even the Romulan state could not suppress them. Like the Russian Orthodox Church during the Soviet era, for instance, or the Catholic Church in England.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

I really like this idea. Maybe the Qowat Milat are the reason the Founders weren't able to wreck more havoc infiltrating the Federation and Klingon Empire -- maybe Q.M. operatives were able to track them down and covertly thwart some changeling infiltrators!

Yep

And it's possible that they worked together with resistance movements, behind enemy lines. E. g. on Betazed and later on Cardassia for example.

Maybe Kira, Garak and Damar also had some contact with them and were supported by some Qowat Milat operatives...

At least that's part of my headcanon now

 

[Nerys Myk]

The impression the shows give me is that until the fall of the Romulan Empire, they were pretty much kept to Romulus.

But if course they could do a show about a group of them going on adventures during the TNG era and it'd work. Being such a blank slate they can be retroactively put anywhere.

Like Roy Kent?
They're here. They're there They're every fucking where...