As a substitute of the stretchy-faced Son’a, Star Trek: Revolt initially had Romulans forming a darkish alliance with the Federation. The late Michael Piller bought plenty of pushback from Paramount on the script, most notably from Picard himself, Patrick Stewart.
There have been various issues Stewart had with Piller’s earliest concepts, however in a letter he wrote from the set of the Moby Dick TV film, the actor mentioned that his greatest situation was the “dredging up of the Romulans — a race already unexciting in TNG.”
So as a substitute the Son’a have been born with their fairly literal stretch marks and all.
Satirically, contemplating Stewart’s obvious distaste for the villains, Romulans would show to be main antagonists within the first season of his revival sequence–Star Trek: Picard.
