I have always thought, as someone said above, that Picard was simply too smart to let himself be promoted. 
It speaks worlds about Janeway that she is apparently happy as a desk jockey as opposed to being where the action is. Yeah, she got the Voyager home, thanks to lots of good luck and deuses ex machina along the way. Blah.
Thanks to seven of nine, Maquis crewmen who were better than their starfleet comrades, and some aliens! I guess she really is good Administrator. But she would have been dead in Kirk’s day. I guess that’s why she was only the captain of a little Intrepid class ship instead of playing in the big legues out on the front in a Galaxy class!
Yeah, I was thinking of the German example myself. To English speakers its Germany, to French it Allemagne, and to GR its Deutschland…
Yes, that’s what it was. Thanks for jogging my memory! I’ve been listening to a history of Rome podcast for about a year now to feed my love of all things ancient Mediterranean, and my head’s gotten so clogged with names and events that it’s hard to remember things sometimes. This is what happens when I’m not at home to check Wikipedia 
I haven’t seen Nemesis since the day it came out, so did the Federation know about the Remans before all this happened? Because if so and they found out what happened, I could see someone being like, “Hey, this name fits pretty well and their name for themselves sounds like someone gargling rocks.” Otherwise, I got nothin’.
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Remans were never mentioned in anyTrek venue before Nemeisis. Not in movies, shows or books.
I note that, once again, the great TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterrpise” was mentioned on the podcast.
Because of my big ego, and my shamelessness when it comes to self-promoting my ridiculous scribblings, I will once again draw attention to “Yesterday’s Enterprise—GWC-style”:
http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showthread.php?t=5075
Duane also says that the names Romulus and Remus were given by the first human explorer to reach the system, and he was a romanophile… presumably he never saw any actual Romulans, since Kirk et al were the first to see their faces.
[QUOTE=Sithwitch;177087]Romulus killed Remus–I can’t recall why[\QUOTE]
Because Romulus wanted Rome to be centred on the Palatine Hill and Remus preferred the Aventine. It was all about real estate.
Ah, Muttley! My best friend in elementary school was awesome in mimicking his signature laugh!
Audra: at work, I have to use a chemical analytical technique called Raman Spectroscopy every now and then, and it always makes me think of noodles!
Thinking of the supposedly ageless Data looking older, reminds me of David Boreanaz, who looks about 17 in the first season of Buffy and about 40 in the last season of Angel.
BTW, space is REALLY big. In interstellar space, the chances of encountering anything bigger than an atom are pretty remote. When two galaxies collide, the chances are astronomically against any stars colliding! Those deflector screens would come in handy in-system, of course. Plus if I remember my novels technobabble, when travelling at warp they aren’t even in the real universe anyway, but in a wap bubble that puts them into an alternate universe where light travels faster.
If you guys like time travel so much, why aren’t you into Lost?
One of the Shat novels explains why the Remans chose a human clone wingnut as a leader. Apperently there was a prophecy he fulfilled or some such.
I can understand why Humans might call them Romulans, but why call their leader “Praetor”? In ancient Rome, praetors were basically judges, it was the consuls who ran the government. (And then the dictators, and the emperors…)
You know, the ancient Roman slang for a prostitute is “lupa”, which means “she-wolf”. Maybe that’s a more realistic source of Romulus’s and Remus’s milk…
I’ll raise a cup of Tranya to The Corbomite Maneuver! 
I have always assumed, maybe wrongly, that the reason that we get Klingon’s, Romulans, Vulcans, and other such names, is that the Universal Translator does that. Whatever terms other races call themselves, the Universal Translator translates into whatever the Federation had designated as the name. I haven’t looked it up, I don’t have a Technical Manual to explain what a Universal Translator actually does, but that’s what I always have thought.
In Ancient Rome a Praetor was appointed by the government as either the military leader or in a role similar to an elected magistrate. So there is probably a Proconsul who is below the Praetor. I figure the Praetor is in charge since Romulan Star Empire government is basically run by the military.
According to some dialogue in Nemesis, the Remens were used as cannon fodder during the Dominion War. But they were never known to the audience until Nemesis.
No, leading armies was really the consuls’ job, the praetors were only given the job if the consuls were unavailable (read: dead, as happened in the Third Servile War vs. Spartacus). The Urban Praetor, the head praetor, wasn’t even allowed to leave Rome for more than a nundina (an eight-day period between market days, the roman equivalent of a week… they called it a “nine-day” because they counted the market day twice, just like we call a musical octave after eight notes when it only has seven different ones). Proconsuls were way above praetors, they were ex-consuls who were given a province to govern where they could tax and rape and pillage and recoup the hideous expenses it took them to climb the cursus honorem. Praetors were basically judges and bureaucrats (occasionally eight instead of six were elected to take care of special commissions like overseeing the grain supply in times of crisis). The order of precedence for Roman magistrates can basically be taken from the order they were allowed to speak in the senate: princeps senatus, then serving consuls, then proconsuls, then praetors, then propraetors (ex-praetors), etc.
Music, Chemistry and Ancient Rome… I don’t know craaaap about much else (okay, a little BSG and Trek), but I know them!
On a completely different subject, Sean’s allusion to Muttley led me to do some research… for those of you who are old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons in the late '70s, did you realize that the character on the Really Rottens team on Laff-A-Lympics was not, in fact, Muttley, but a very closely based (and blue) dog named Mumbly? What, did Hanna-Barbera have legal issues with using their own images? This discovery rocked my world… I always rooted for the Rottens (I was that kind of kid), and jumped for joy in the second season when they finally let them win a couple of episodes. (I don’t count the series finale, when it ended up a three-way tie. What a gyp.) Those Scoobies and Yogis were way too goody-two-shoe… :o
Yes, Praetor was a title given to either a person who was an elected magistrate or a military commander prior to the reforms in 360 B.C. and whichever you want to use depended on whichever historical period you look at during Ancient Rome. Consuls and proconsuls came after the reforms, and the title praetor was given different responsibilities.
Its a moot point anyway, because the writers who constructed the government structure that the Romulans use can use any title they want and use it anyway they want.
Hey folks - been listening for a while and thought I’d say awesome job with the Trek movies. I’ve been a trekkie since I was born. 1967 - was watching shows with my dad when I was in diapers.
I decided to check out audible.com finally and downloaded Dune of all books.
You all rock. Keep it up.
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Ok, so I am catching up on podcasts from the spring and was listing to this one on my way into work today. Then, as I was checking my Tweets, Whil Wheaton posted this.
I thought I would share after the holodeck ‘toys’ conversation.