By Chris Snowlings
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What if the best of the best points of the villain star path never happened? It may seem like a paradox, but frankly, the paradox is that the best thing is the sci-fantastic franchise. And « paradox » certainly Next generation They were a fake hologram in the « future imperfection » and on an alternative temporary scale of the finale « All Good Things ».
In case you need a primer on the character, the Tomol – commander Ramulan, who first appeared in the « enemy », trying to save the crew of the broken scout. Mostly he is Romalan, the equivalent of the Picard Captain … The one who is not afraid to expose his teeth when needed, but who ultimately prefers diplomatic solutions. The character lost to perfection Babylon 5 An icon Andreas Catsules in four episodes TNBut in a noticeable turn, we saw only the « real » Tomalok in half of these episodes.
What in this case means « true »? We first saw Tomolk in the « enemy », and he reappeared in « Defector », one of the best episodes of Romulan TNG. The next character appeared in the episode « Being imperfect », but we learned that he was only holograms using the wild turn of this episode.
« Being imperfect » was an episode when the ricker woke up to Sickbay after a cold to find out what it was 16 years old and he is now the company captain. Conveniently suffering from the loss of memory, he moves his duties to captain the flagship, including the leading negotiations on the Federation/Romulan Peace Treaty from Tomolk. After all, he realizes that he is trapped in modeling lonely strange The boy and what he felt (including several interactions with Tomalak) was true.
After that, Tomolk made only another screen, but it was Duzi. It appeared in the finals of the TNG series « All Good Things », where he and Picar agree to send one ship to investigate the mysterious spatial phenomenon in the Devron system (he especially tickled that Picard had never read this plan with the Starfleet team). By the end of the episode, Picard saved the galaxy and dropped reality, but it means that all its communication with the volumes occurred in an alternative reality, which was soon erased.
As for us, we just love to see on the Tomalak screen and do not lose too much sleep about whether these performances were « valid » or not. Thanks to (between) the star execution of Andreas Katsulas, Tomolka easily became the most memorable romulant in all Next generation. And the very fact that his hero was so susceptible to diplomacy by the end of the series helped to dispel any protracted ideas about the Ramulans as a villain.
However there are several things The stellar path Fans like to discuss more than Canon and some of them are most likely Amazing new worlds confirmed that the term is always in the flow). These fans would be well deserved, remembering the lyrics to another iconic Scientific-fiction The iconic song show: « If you wonder how it eats and breathe, and other scientific facts … Just repeat yourself, » It’s just a show, I really have to just rest! «
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