Reman
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Remans are the humanoid, at least partially telepathic, inhabitants of the planet Remus. They have been the slave labor caste of the Romulan people since at least the 22nd century and have been forced to work in the extremely hazardous dilithium mines of their world. (ENT: "United", "The Aenar")
As Remus is a tidally locked planet, the Remans live on its dark side, and thus are extremely sensitive to light. Some Remans, if not all, possess telepathic abilities similar to those shown by Vulcans and Betazoids. (Star Trek Nemesis)
According to Data, the Reman language was really "a most complex language" that utilized pictographs representing certain verb roots. (Star Trek Nemesis)
Among the Romulan people Remans have historically been known as great warriors, as such Romulan senators often had Reman bodyguards in their employ to intimidate possible opponents. (ENT: "United", "The Aenar")
Remans were used by the Romulan Empire as "cannon fodder" during the Dominion War, and were often deployed in the fiercest engagements.
In 2379, the Remans usurped the power of their Romulan overlords in a military coup, installing their leader, Shinzon (in actuality a clone of Jean-Luc Picard), as the new Praetor of the Romulan Senate and thus the empire. As an act of war against the Federation, Praetor Shinzon, with his warbird the Scimitar, then attempted to destroy Earth.
However, with the destruction of the Scimitar at the Battle of the Bassen Rift, after Shinzon's supporters on Romulus turned against him, the bid for Reman superiority was prematurely ended. (Star Trek Nemesis)
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[edit] People
- No Reman characters were ever assigned names in canon productions.
[edit] Background
- The script for Star Trek Nemesis compares the Remans to the "original Nospheratu", referencing the 1922 horror movie Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Indeed the Remans bore some resemblance to that film's vampire, Count Orlok.
- The voices of the Remans were digitally lowered in post-production, giving them an unearthly quality.
- In the audio commentary of the 2005 Star Trek Nemesis (Special Edition) DVD, Executive Producer Rick Berman wondered how the Remans operated the push button controls of their ship with such long, curving fingernails.
- The Remans' ears were made of a semi-translucent latex with painted veins that would appear when backlit.
- The Reman uniforms were specially painted to appear iridescent, a delicate process that involved several coats. The uniforms were later modified and reused as Xindi-Reptilian uniforms on Enterprise.
- It is unknown how the Remans were able to build such a large starship as the Scimitar in secret. Dialog in Star Trek Nemesis indicated that they also had a secret base of operations, but this doesn't explain how such an oppressed people developed such an advanced warship. A campaign in the non-canon game Star Trek: Starfleet Command III seems to indicate that the Scimitar was constructed on a deep-space base operated by the Romulan Fleet.
- A Reman rifle was among the items which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]
[edit] Apocrypha
The Remans made a brief appearance in the comic book series Star Trek: Countdown, a tie-in to the 2009 Star Trek film. A fleet of Reman ships captured and boarded Nero's mining ship the Narada while it was mining decalithium in the Kimben System at the farthest edge of the Romulan Empire in 2387. The Remans were planning on executing Nero's crew as well as Ambassador Spock, who was on board, before the ship was rescued by the USS Enterprise-E and Captain Data.
[edit] External link
- Reman at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
