Reman

Reman Viceroy, 2379

*"We will no longer bow before anyone as slaves. Not the Romulans and not your mighty Federation. We… are a race bred for war, and conquest."*
**– Shinzon to Jean-Luc Picard, 2379 (Star Trek Nemesis)**

Remans were the humanoid and at least partially telepathic inhabitants of the planet Remus.

## History & Culture

The Remans were the slave labor caste of the Romulan people since at least the 22nd century and forced to work in the extremely hazardous dilithium mines of their world. (ENT: "United", "The Aenar")

As Remus was a tidally locked planet, the Remans lived on its dark side, and thus were extremely sensitive to light. Some Remans, if not all, possessed telepathic abilities similar to those shown by Vulcans and Betazoids. (Star Trek Nemesis)

According to Data, the Reman language was "a most complex language" that utilized pictographs representing certain verb roots. (Star Trek Nemesis)

Among the Romulan people, Remans have historically been known as great warriors. As such, Romulan senator Vrax employed two Reman bodyguards to intimidate possible opponents. (ENT: "United", "The Aenar")

Remans were used by the Romulan Empire as "cannon fodder" during the Dominion War, and were often deployed in the fiercest engagements.

In 2379, the Remans usurped the power of their Romulan overlords in a military coup, installing their leader, Shinzon (in actuality, a clone of Jean-Luc Picard), as the new Praetor of the Romulan Senate and thus the empire. As an act of war against the Federation, Praetor Shinzon – with his warbird, the Scimitar – then attempted to destroy all life on Earth.

However, with the destruction of the Scimitar at the Battle of the Bassen Rift, after Shinzon's supporters on Romulus turned against him, the bid for Reman superiority was prematurely ended. (Star Trek Nemesis)

## Physiology

A nocturnal race, the Remans shun light, and are characterized by their imposing heights, grey skin, large ears, keen eyesight in the dark, and the possession of telepathic abilities. As of the late 24th century, it was commonly believed by the people of the Federation that the Remans were a mutated offshoot of the Romulans. (ST novel: Articles of the Federation)

## Telepathy

It was known that similar to the Romulans, the Remans possessed the Vulcan genes for telepathy within their DNA. (TOS novel: Captain's Blood) Unlike their Romulan brothers, however, the Remans have demonstrated telepathic abilities that can dull the sense of pain among those suffering from disease and allows them to invade the minds of others. (TNG movie: Star Trek Nemesis)

It was learned that the Romulan followers of Surak who possessed the telepathic abilities among their kind were banished to Remus while the others were killed on the journey across space. It was later seen how the Vulcans who settled on Remus fared: After one Vulcan, Refas, blundered out onto the ice of the planet's surface in what appeared to be a suicide attempt, he encountered a colony of extremophiles who thrived there. They revived Refas and began to alter him to more effectively live on Remus (he was able to survive more comfortably in the freezing environment). Healer T'Olryn adapted the extremophiles to work on any Vulcan, and soon an entire colony was being slowly mutated. They developed the hairless, pale skin, sunken eyes, and powerful telepathic abilities that later Remans are seen to possess. (TOS - Vulcan's Soul novels: Exiles, Epiphany)

Some Remans also manifested limited telekinetic powers. (ST video game: Star Trek Online)