In the first episode "O Discovery, Where Art Thou?" of After Trek, executive producer Aaron Harberts alluded to the difficulty of dealing with Romulans at this point in the timeline.
Aaron made the comment:
Romulan is a dirty word in the writers’ room right now because of where we are in the timeline. The sparks fly when the writers bring up the Romulans.
Now I understand that Discovery is set in the timeline before TOS and after Enterprise. In the timeline this is 2255. We know that this is after the Romulan War.
But the Romulan war finished in 2160. That was roughly 90 years prior. There is some missing piece of information that would make the writers not want to go near the Romulans in discovery.
My question is: Why is "Romulan is a dirty word in the writers’ room" for Star Trek: Discovery?
