ST TNG "The Defector" - Picard OWNS Tomalak

This is one of my favourite scenes from TNG season 3's "The Defector". Good old Romulan Commander Tomalak gets foiled...again by Picard. But Picard does it in an 'EPIC' manner, as only 'PACARD' could do.

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[etetepete]

Can someone tell me the names or the numbers of the episodes with their 'next meetings'?

Thanks!

Federation-Romulan affairs are one of the best things about star trek.

[CaptainTrekkie]

@etetepete Tomalak is woefully underused, he appears in only four episodes, including this one. Prior to this he appears in The Enemy, after this he appears in Future Imperfect and All Good Things, the finale. Which he deserved to be in, because he's one of the most memorable characters from TNG.

[talshiarr]

Abdreas Katsulas had an impressive range of facial movements he could make without moving the muscles around his eyes at all. Watch from 0:35 to 0:45 close and you'll see what I mean.

[sefros]

G'Kar he was the shit!!

[CaptainTrekkie]

@MasterofSpiders This is true, at the same time a lot of stuff back then they just copy-pasted from Champions Online. If you play CO and then STO the ground combat is the same, awfully buggy, delayed and unresponsive gameplay. It's not like they built new code from the ground up, if they did they genuinely hide it well. You are 100% correct in that Perpetual would probably have made sod all that amounted to anything, but wow is Cryptic's game bad. It's beyond bad, it's abhorrent

[CaptainTrekkie]

@Sefaril Thankyou for the correction. I had to search for your comment because it has become embedded in spam flags. I've unflagged it as I appreciate being corrected for the future, so thanks.

[Dippers85]

Bet those Klingons were really disappointed when the Romulans cloaked and ran!! haha :D

[CaptainTrekkie]

@Draco1985m Whilst I know you're right, I fear I am too biased against the game to think rationally about this. I really hated the execution of that idea, even though as you say it is a typically Klingon thing to do, they are far from angels. It just didn't feel right, Martok being killed in dishonourable combat, and Worf or other Klingons not doing anything to take revenge, and letting the new guy ascend as Chancellor, it just feels underdone is all. Like I say though, biased.

[Draco1985m]

@CaptainTrekkie Actually, the plot in STO makes pretty good sense. The war started because the Klingons thought the Federation was controlled by Species 8472/Undine infiltrators - which in that period was what anyone thought about everyone else. And it keeps going because one high-up idiot is afraid of his power base - which sounds pretty klingon to me (Chang, anyone?).

Plus the fact that it was all orchestrated to reach precisely this outcome - Feds and Klingons at war.

[Dippers85]

I love how the creators of TNG were able to give the Klingons and the Romulans their own musical scores. The Klingon theme gave the idea of a warlike race, who live for battle and honor. The Romulan musical score gives off the impression of the Romulans as a people who are generally not to be trusted, dangerous, decietful, skulking around the place in their cloaked ships ready to ambush you. Simply brilliant!! :D