(laughing) My day job is simply there to fund this project, Punisher. I'll see if I can't get this next part out faster. At the time of TOS, Romulans hadn't been seen in 100 years*, since the first Romulan War, and the ships were all much different, so a Bird of Prey had never been seen by the Federation until "Balance of Terror" in TOS. (Or, well, Aurora, but that's a different story ; ) * And "seen" means just their ships--somehow the Feds fought an entire war with the Romulans without actually seeing one in person --Tim