Romulan

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Romulans are a fictional race of aliens within the Star Trek franchise. First appearing in the original Star Trek series in the 1966 episode 'Balance of Terror', they have since made appearances in all the main later Star Trek series: The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. In addition, they have appeared in various spin-off media, and prominently in the two films Star Trek Nemesis (2002) and Star Trek (2009). Throughout the franchise, they are generally depicted as antagonists, who are always at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of Planets, the show's galactic organization of which Earth is a member. The Romulans to a large extent also act as a counterpoint to the logical Vulcan race, who within the mythos of Star Trek are supposed to share a common ancestry. As such, the Romulans are characterized as passionate, cunning, and opportunistic-in every way the opposite of the logical Vulcans.