Talk:Ensign Ro (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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Just thought I should mention that I removed a reference to an "Ensign Ro" assimilated crewman killed by Picard and cannibilized for parts during Star Trek: First Contact. The assimilated crewman Picard killed and cut open to remove his memory chip to find out what the Borg were doing was Ensign Lynch, if I recall correctly.Charbroil 00:27, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

From the Trivia section: "When they first meet, Riker assumes that "Laren" is Ro's surname because it appears second. It's strange for Riker to jump to this conclusion, since there are Earth cultures that do the same (Japan, for example)."

This statement is slightly gratuitous: it is not strange at all for Riker to make such an assumption, given that he is primarily surrounded by people from cultures, like his own, which adhere to the standard "given name, family name" style, as opposed to the Bajoran system of naming. Just because an Earth culture (Japan), or any other someone may have encountered, shares the same style does not mean it would instantly occur to someone to be cautious of such a peculiarity. I certainly wouldn't classify this information as "trivia"; perhaps it should instead be altered to reflect that the Bajoran naming system is similar to that of some Earth cultures, such as Japan. Andrew Langcake 14:14 (GMT +10:00), 21 February, 2007.

Why would the Admiral want to give the Bajoran terrorists weapons?

It is unclear to me why the Admiral, who seems to blindly believe the Cardassians' claim that the Bajorans are behind the attack, and who also seems to want to appease the Cardassians no matter what, would want to send Ensign Ro on a secret mission to supply the Bajoran terrorists with weapons. I couldn't find any explanation to this apparent contradiction in the episode, nor in the article in its current form. If anyone can find sources regarding that and add something about it to the article it would improve it greatly, in my opinion. 188.169.229.30 (talk) 21:04, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

A possible answer is that the Admiral was lying to Ensign Ro. The only way to get a Bajoran as patriotic as Ensign Ro to expose Orta would be to promise something of great value to the Bajorans: i.e., ships, weapons, etc. Ensign Ro never would have accepted a mission that had the ultimate goal of killing Bajorans, especially of Bajorans fighting the Cardassians. The Admiral was lying to everyone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David7849 (talk • contribs) 21:13, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Old post, I know, and not really what talk pages are for. Nonetheless, I will respond: I believe the idea is that he doesn't think he can interfere, so he's secretly helping the Bajorans fight instead, not realizing that the Cardassians expect exactly that, and will use it as an excuse to go after the Federation. — trlkly 07:52, 16 January 2022 (UTC)