Star Trek: 6 Romulans Who Would Have Hated Unification (And 6 Who Wouldn't)

12. Senator Cretak

Cretak is a political dynamo and force to be reckoned with. In the two instances we meet her, the Senator is only matched in one by Colonel Kira.

Acting as a representative for the Empire on Deep Space Nine, Cretak fully supported the alliance with the Federation and the Klingons to win the Dominion War. As such this might have been one of the reasons for her later fall from grace. She wasn't without typical Romulan traits either, covering up a military installation on a Bajoran moon as a hospital for one and placing the fragile alliance on a knife-edge.

The second time the audience encounters her, Cretak is entrapped by an unsuspecting Doctor Bashir who has been, unknowingly, working for Section 31. For their own ends they are maneuvering a candidate they favour into the Senate, but after her clear agreement to the Dominion War Alpha Quadrant alliance, perhaps she was seen as a viable threat to the balance of power.

Cretak would see the reunification with the Vulcans as an opportunity to build further alliances for the Empire, especially if she were to have seen the state of the Empire following the Hobus event.