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* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: The Romulan symbol.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Kirk and the ''Enterprise'' defeat one of the show's most dangerous adversaries in the Romulan Commander, who only fails because his warrior culture compels him to listen to an ambitious subcommander and risk an ill-advised final attack.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Scotty states that the Romulans "power is simple impulse." This caused many people (including the writers of the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'') to assume that the Romulans only had Impulse engines and not Warp Drive. However, considering it would take decades for the Romulans to travel space without Faster-than-light travel, it would be nearly impossible to fight an interstellar war. Eventually, this was retconed by having the Romulans have warp capabilities in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
* [[Fan Favorite]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Lt. Stiles. From a long line of Stiles who fought in the first Romulan War. When he finds out Romulans and Vulcans look alike (and Spock himself confirms the possibility the species are related), he starts viewing Spock as a traitor. {{spoiler|Spock saves his life during the final attack, and Stiles learns his lesson}}.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The Romulan Commander. He's only attacking Starfleet bases because he was ordered to test a new weapon (and to test the Federation's vulnerability). He'd rather not start any more wars, and just wants to go home.
** The Commander quickly recognizes Kirk as one, by the fact that Kirk does a lot of things ''he'' would do.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Mark Lenard, who plays the Romulan Commander here, would go on to play Spock's father in "Journey to Babel" and a Klingon Commander in ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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