![]() It was a cool idea while it lasted, though. Unfortunately, this pretty solid bit of "fanon" was eventually negated when Star Trek: Enterprise established the existence of Klingon Birds-of-Prey operating in the 22nd century, long before the much vaunted alliance. We announced that we would be bringing out a new Polar Lights model kit of the STAR TREK: TOS Romulan Bird-of-Prey back at Wonderfest in May.We’ve shown around some of the preliminary 3D work, but we recently received the mockup of the kit. According to writer producer Harve Bennett: I didn't change their ship, because I remembered a piece of trivia that stated there was a mutual assistance military pact between the Klingons and the Romulans for an exchange of a military equipment.īennett's explanation became de facto canon for decades, with many fans believing the Bird-of-Prey was simply the product of the Klingon-Romulan alliance, similar to the use of Klingon ships by the Romulans in TOS' "The Enterprise Incident". Romulan Warbird (TOS) Episode aired YOUR RATING Rate Talk-Show In this first episode of TREKYARDS we take a look at the Romulan Bird of Prey as seen in the TOS episode 'Balance of Terror'. Later in the series, this ship type would be explicitly referred to as a 'warbird'. There was, however, an in-universe explanation. The ship featured a newly designed Romulan crest, featuring a stylised bird of prey clutching two planets, Romulus and Remus, in its claws. ![]() Ultimately, as seen in the finished film, the Bird-of-Prey in The Search for Spock was simply a Klingon Bird-of-Prey, with any mention of its origin or its theft from the Romulans left completely omitted. However, as the script developed, the Romulans were swapped out for Klingons and the once proprietary Bird-of-Prey became a stolen one. As originally conceived, the Klingon variant of the Bird-of-Prey was actually a Romulan ship the script of Star Trek III at first called for the film's main villains to be Romulans using a Romulan Bird-of-Prey, as had been typical of Bird-of-Prey use in Star Trek: The Original Series. These vessels were most notably in service as combatant vessels during the Earth-Romulan War. Early drafts of what would become Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, in fact, featured the Romulans as the film's villains and fittingly contained references to their ship as a Bird-of-Prey. The Romulan bird-of-prey was a type of Romulan Star Empire starship, a bird-of-prey in Imperial Fleet service in the 22nd century. ![]()
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