Chris

Very nice. You made it?

Ouyyir i'ch'Rihan

The background image is a scene from TOS. I changed the colour of the wedge in the Romulan logo so it stands out from the black of space. The two Romulans are from an image posted on a gaming forum. I combined them with an application called GIMP to create my masterpiece.

Chris

ah, very nice work.

lyb42

GIMP, huh? I never had the patience to get accustomed to GIMP (too used to Photoshop). My hat is off.

Ouyyir i'ch'Rihan

GIMP is similar to what Adobe Illustrator was like ten years ago. So when I stopped using Microsoft I found the transition to GIMP easy. I have no idea what Illustrator is like now and have never used Photshop, so I do not know how they compare today. (I have not seen Windows since XP.)

lyb42

I have actually used (or, rather, tried to use) GIMP, Ouy. I would say it was considerably less like Illustrator than it was like Photoshop. I'm a year or two behind on my Adobe products, and not especially likely to catch back up since I gave up on my design career, but because I am as familiar as I am with Adobe's stuff, the GIMP interface was not particularly intuitive.

As for Win-BLOWS, you aren't missing much. Vista was a joke, and Windows 8 is positively infuriating.

Ouyyir i'ch'Rihan

I switched to Linux about seven years ago, then moved to BSD last year.

lyb42

Fun

CommanderM

In the spirit of all things Romulan, I wish they had done more with Commander Sela, Lieutenant Yar's half-Romulan daughter from an aborted timeline in The Next Generation. Denise Crosby played both characters.

Ouyyir i'ch'Rihan

We are opposite personalities. Although her character was an interesting idea, I thought they did too much with her. I wish they would have had more episodes on Romulus and/or other Romulan worlds. Unfortunately, all of the non-human races were grossly under-developed, until a little bit was done with the Klingons in DS9.

One thing I find intriguing is the design of a Romulan bridge in TOS. Four officers standing in front of stations set in a circle in the centre of the bridge with the commander walking around them was very interesting. It gave the Romulans a unique character. Too bad in TNG the work stations were put around the commander who had to have a chair like Federation ships.

Chris

Agree that it would have been nice to learn more about Romulas, even if it was just presented as background info prior to an encounter with Romulans.

I enjoyed seeing Denise Crosby again, but I'm not sure about continuing with that character.

CommanderM

Might I ask why neither of you like the character Sela?

Ouyyir i'ch'Rihan

It is not that I did not like her. In fact, I thought her appearance was interesting. It is just that with so little done with the Romulans, having her in the story too much was out-of-place.

Chris

Well said, and pretty much sums up my feelings. I liked the character, and did enjoy seeing Denise again, just not sure about making it a recurring character.

Ouyyir i'ch'Rihan

She was also rather young to be a commander wasn't she? If she was born after the Kitimer Incident, she would have been what, in her late twenties? And she commanded a fleet along the Klingon border? Seems a little odd.

Perhaps part of my inability to be too fond of the character was her being the result of yet more time-travel. There was far too much of it. Although it could have been used much more effectively. Imagine this storyline: Sela is a member of the Tal Shiar. She is sent into the Federation claiming to be Tasha. (She did not die or was saved by some entity.) She infiltrates the Enterprise crew for espionage and serves for half a season before being discovered. The storyline would move from the great joy of being re-united with their lost comrade to great despair after discovering the treachery.