Tsukiyumi wrote:JudgeKing wrote:The events of TATV are a Section 31 coverup so that Trip can do undercover work studying the Romulan Warp Seven Stardrive Program and if possible sabotage it...
It really would explain
A) why there were no security forces when the aliens boarded the ship, and
B) Trip's wink to Archer before Phlox takes him to "surgery".
A) For reasons that remained classified for (approximately) 250 years, Tucker was forced to fake his own death in 2155, days before the foundation of the Coalition of Planets, precursor to the United Federation of Planets.
In files de-classified in the early 25th century, it was revealed that Tucker had been recruited by the rogue spy agency known to some as Section 31 to infiltrate the space of the Romulan Star Empire and sabotage the Romulans research into developing a Warp-7 stardrive.
In order to facilitate this, Tucker underwent re-constructive surgery on Adigeon Prime, a world whose natives were familiar with Romulan appearance, in order to fit in behind enemy lines. Tucker and Section 31 agent Tinh Hoc Phuong were the first humans to see the true appearance of the Romulan people and realize their kinship to the Vulcans. Section 31 kept this information under wraps fearing that if link between the Vulcan and Romulan people were to be discovered, it would shatter the still-fragile Coalition.
Tucker returned to Romulan space shortly after the formation of the Coalition of Planets in order to gather intelligence on the Romulans before the inevitable war with the Empire broke out. Tucker's specific activities during this period remain unknown, but at some point the historical record was altered, changing the date of Tucker's "death" from 2155 to 2161. The reasons for this remain a mystery. (ENT novel: The Good That Men Do)
B) I don't know what the wink was about.
There is not a problem in this world that can't be solved without the proper application of a sufficient number of thermonuclear ordnance.
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