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== Set Course for the Neutral Zone, Full Reverse! ==
* In the first season episode "Angel One," they try to add a little tension to a boring-as-hell episode by constantly repeating that they're needed at the Neutral Zone immediately for some sort of emergency. So they escape from the Bonnie Tyler Lookalike Convention and set course for the Neutral Zone at maximum warp--and it takes them ''eleven episodes'' to get there! And when they do show up they neither refer to the events that drew them there before nor even apologize for being late. And of course they say they haven't been in contact with the Romulans for over fifty years. What the hell? Hey writers: [[Confused Matthew|Watch your own show!]]
** The status of the Romulans in the years between TOS and TNG is a matter on which continuity is extremely weak. We are on one hand told that they were essentially isolationists locked away behind their borders, to the point where the Federation does not know what their technological standing is like. On the other hand, they found time in those years to attack the Federation world Narendra III and do something called "the Norkan Massacre." A Starfleet office named Stefan
*** Come to think of it, I don't think the period of Romulan isolationism is specifically mentioned in any episode but "The Neutral Zone."
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