Star Trek: Vulcan's Heart: Difference between revisions

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Narviat, the reasonable and honourable praetor who overthrows [[The Caligula|Dralath]]. He's a good man, but he's a Romulan noble who thrives in the cut-throat world of the Imperial court. As such, he's not the Starfleet sort of hero. Indeed, his primary appeal is not so much that he'll be an ally of any sort to the Federation but rather that he's too sensible to start pointless wars. Spock reflects:

{{quote| Yes, Narviat was ambitious and, in his own honorable way, ruthless - no surprise there, not from a member of the Imperial family who'd survived so far. He was also far less venal and warmongering - more sensible, was it? - than Dralath.}}

* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Volskiar and several other Romulans encourage this in their troops at every opportunity.

* [[Planet of Hats]]: The novel tries to avert this with the Romulans. Some are essentially warrior-politicians (Narviat, Dralath as a darker and more bloodthirsty variant), some noble soldiers of the [[Proud Warrior Race]] type (e.g. Charvanek, Tal and Ruanek (and he's of a different caste to the first two, and so expresses the tendency differently), and others are little more than thugs. Some Romulans are gentle scholars, some of them quite stuffy, some are slang-talking street youth with a lot of idealism, some are just getting-on-with-things servents and workers.

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