Editing Romulan (section)

====''Deep Space Nine'' and ''Voyager''====
For "[[The Search (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|The Search]]", the opening two-part episode of the third season of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', a Romulan link was introduced. The episode, which was written by [[Ira Steven Behr]], [[Robert Hewitt Wolfe]], and Ronald D. Moore, featured the introduction of a new Starfleet ship, the [[USS Defiant|USS ''Defiant'']]; the scriptwriters included the idea that it had been equipped with a cloaking device by the Romulans in return for intelligence that the Federation gathered on another alien power, [[Dominion (Star Trek)|the Dominion]]. A Romulan character, T'Rul ([[Martha Hackett]]), was included to oversee the device's use aboard the ''[[USS Defiant|Defiant]]''.{{sfn|Erdmann|Block|2000|pp=160–161}} The show's writers had initially planned on including T'Rul as a permanent fixture on the show but decided that she did not offer enough potential for new storylines.{{sfn|Erdmann|Block|2000|p=163}}

The Romulans were reused later that season in "[[Visionary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|Visionary]]", where they are presented as attempting to destroy the [[Deep Space Nine (fictional space station)|Deep Space Nine]] space station as part of their plan to collapse the nearby [[wormhole]] and thus prevent a Dominion invasion of the [[Alpha Quadrant]], the region of space where both the Federation and Romulans reside.{{sfn|Erdmann|Block|2000|pp=216–217}} Three episodes later, the follow-on episodes "[[Improbable Cause]]" and "[[The Die Is Cast (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)|The Die Is Cast]]" again featured the Romulans, in this case portraying a joint mission by the Romulan Tal Shiar and Cardassian Obsidian Order to fatally cripple the Dominion by eradicating its leaders, [[List of Star Trek races#Changeling|the Founders]].{{sfn|Erdmann|Block|2000|pp=224–225, 231–232}} For these episodes, new Tal Shiar outfits were designed; Moore related that this was partly his decision, for he "hated, underline hated, the Romulan costumes [introduced in the first season of ''The Next Generation'']. Big shoulder pads, the quilting, I just loathed it".{{sfn|Erdmann|Block|2000|p=227}} Costume designer [[Robert Blackman]] noted that his team created eight new Romulan uniforms, using the same fabric as the old ones but "dyed it down slightly, and we made them much sleeker and a little more menacing".{{sfn|Erdmann|Block|2000|p=227}}