MM>> It turns out that the followers of Surak were using a weapon called
 MM>> the "Stone of Gol" which amplified and reflected violent emotions back
 MM>> at the person experiencing those emotions, generally killing them.
 MM>> The Surakians were engaged in a crusade as aggressive as anything ever
 MM>> conducted by Christianity to convert Vulcan to Logic.  Their (somewhat
 MM>> stilted) logic told them that people must convert or die.  The
 MM>> Romulans, as a result, left in order to save their lives.  In Gambit,
 MM>> we saw that a faction of Vulcans was still alive in the current
 MM>> Federation era, willing to use the Stone of Gol to kill in order to
 MM>> reach its societal goals.
 DB> This is interesting, because I don't remember any part of that episode
 DB> specifically referring the the point that the Romulans left in order to
 DB> save their lives.  The first paragraph is correct, but the facts for the
 DB> second paragraph are where exactly in those episodes, if you don't mind
 DB> refreshing my memory?
But we did see in the episode that the followers of Surak were using the
Stone of Gol.  Who would they be killing with the Stone of Gol but
people who declined to surrender their violent emotions?
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