Star Trek: 10 Ways The Romulan Supernova Impacted The Multiverse
3. The Many Deaths Of Remus
In mythology, it was Romulus, son of Mars (go figure!), who founded Rome, but not before murdering his twin brother Remus. In Star Trek, the Romulans didn't necessarily kill (much), but instead brutally subjugated, their Reman brothers in the dilithium mines of the night-and-day planet in the same solar system. If the direct and most immediate impact of the Romulan supernova was the destruction of Romulus, then what of Remus, too?
Long before any actual on-screen deaths, the Remans had languished in purgatory, waiting for canon to invent them fully in Star Trek: Nemesis. They were then apparently used as "cannon fodder" in the Dominion War, and in the hands of an embittered, embattled clone, the Reman coup d'état died almost as soon as the Romulan senators hit the floor. Remembered for a bit in Star Trek: Enterprise, they soon fell back into oblivion, unless they were being scraped off the torture chair in Star Trek: Lower Decks.
We'd all known the supernova was coming since 2009. Then, with over 10 years to prepare — more than they got in universe — the Remans were forgotten about all over again. "Romulan evacuation" this, "Romulan lives" that, and not one mention in Star Trek: Picard of the species that made Nosferatu's Count Orlok look like, if not a Roman, then a Greek god! Where were the Remans in the 32nd century?