Tim Poole

One of the greatest lines in Star Trek.

The Enterprise, so ignore Romulan, ignore Federation, Klingon, whatever, okay?

An enemy is fleeing a warship that's shooting at him.

He crosses over into our territory in violation of the treaties we have, because there's a ceasefire.

They then bring this guy, and he's a refugee.

with information dire to the Federation.

And we don't know if we believe him.

The simple version is, he says, the Romulans are planning to launch a war against the Federation to violate the ceasefire, and they're doing it from this location.

And I had to tell you to stop this war.

It's going to kill everybody, and they shouldn't do it.

And so they go to this planet, and they find nothing.

And the admiral who defected is like, I don't understand.

And then all of a sudden, two Romulan warships appear next to the... They decloak.

They have cloaking technology.

The Federation does not.

And they get hailed by the captain of the ship.

And he says...

You are going to surrender.

Like we have caught you in the neutral zone territory.

You will surrender as prisoners of war.