Vulcan reunification The re - unification of the Vulcan and Romulan peoples was a subject of interest on both and Romulus . While the Vulcans were open to peaceful re - unification , the Romulans ' interest in the matter proved to be one of conquest . ( ; ) History . Divergence with Vulcan . The Vulcans were once an extremely violent and emotional people , waging almost constant warfare on each other . As their level of technology improved , the Vulcans ' violent nature threatened the species with extinction . Around 370 AD , the philosopher Surak led his people in a great reformation to reject their emotions in favor of a philosophy that embraced pure logic . A group of dissenters , known as " those who march beneath the raptor ' s wings " , did not accept Surak ' s teachings , and left the planet Vulcan at this time . This group later settled on the planets Romulus and Remus and become the Romulan species , eventually forming a vast and powerful interstellar empire . ( ; ) 22nd century origins . Sometime in the mid - 22nd century , Administrator V ' Las became the head of the Vulcan High Command . Unknown to most at the time , V ' Las had been working with a Romulan operative , Major Talok , to pave the way for the conquest of Vulcan by the Romulan Star Empire . In 2154 , the Earth embassy on Vulcan was bombed . V ' Las placed the blame on the Syrrannite s , a group of Vulcans dedicated to returning Vulcan to the true teachings of Surak . An investigation by Starfleet officers Captain Jonathan Archer and Commander T ' Pol of the starship revealed the Syrrannites ' innocence in the bombing . It was determined that V ' Las , in an attempt to eliminate the Syrrannites as a political obstacle in his plans to attack Andoria , had one of his aides bomb the embassy and plant evidence implicating them , allowing V ' Las to eliminate the Syrrannites without incident or opposition . Unfortunately for V ' Las , these plans fell through when Archer and T ' Pau , the leader of the Syrrannite movement , brought the " Kir ' Shara " before the Vulcan High Command , bringing forth the Vulcan Reformation . V ' Las was expelled from his position , although the involvement of Major Talok remained secret . Talok was forced to return to Romulus following these events , telling V ' Las that the re - unification of the Vulcan and Romulan peoples would have to wait . ( ) Following these events , the Romulans focused their concentration on their campaign to destabilize the Alpha Quadrant ' s major powers , and later their war with Earth . The Romulans ' plans for reunification were further delayed by the Empire ' s isolationist policies following the end of the war in 2160 through the mid - 23rd century . ( ; ) 24th century . In 2368 , the celebrated Federation ambassador and former Starfleet officer Spock traveled to Romulus at the invitation of Romulan senator Pardek . The new proconsul of the Romulan Senate , Neral , had been promising reform and Pardek believed he could be convinced to join the re - unification movement . Spock left without notifying the Federation , and in response Captain Jean - Luc Picard and Lieutenant Commander Data of the were sent to determine what he was doing there and ensure that he had not defected to the Romulan Empire . Despite a promising meeting with Neral , in which he promised public endorsement of re - unification with Vulcan , Spock and Picard suspected foul play . Their suspicions proved correct when they were taken into custody by Commander Sela . The Romulans ' plan was to have Spock deliver a speech appealing to Vulcan to welcome a " peace envoy " from Romulus , only to have the incoming convoy filled with Romulan troops ready to conquer Vulcan . Spock refused , and Sela decided to use a holographic representation of him to deliver the speech . Data and Spock were able to access the computer system and reprogram the hologram to warn the Federation of the invasion . When the " Enterprise " moved to intercept the invasion force , a Romulan Warbird decloaked and destroyed the convoy , preventing their capture . Picard and Data returned to Federation space shortly after , although Spock chose to remain behind and continue his efforts of promoting peaceful re - unification of Vulcan and Romulus . ( ) While its unknown if reunification happened , by 2387 the Romulans and Vulcans were on such terms that when Romulus was threatened by a supernova , the - now Ambassador Spock offered to use red matter to save the Romulans . His efforts ultimately failed , leading to fall of the Romulan Empire and creation of an alternate reality . ( ) Apocrypha . In " Rough Beasts of Empire " , the Reunification movement becomes legal , although in " Plagues of Night " Spock comes to see the Romulan people are against reunification and he leaves Romulus . In " Star Trek Online " , set in the year 2409 , D ' Tan assisted in building a New Romulus after the destruction of the original homeworld twenty - two years prior . As part of rebuilding a new Romulan Republic , he became leader of the Romulan Unification Movement in an attempt to continue Ambassador Spock ' s work of bringing the Vulcan and Romulan people together .