Era mais para impedir a guerra de entrar em erupção. A Guerra Romulana-Terrestre tinha terminado cerca de 160 anos antes do Tomed Incided quando o Almirante Romulano Aventeer Vokar tentou provocar uma guerra entre a Federação e o Império Estelar Romulano
due to his long-standing Romulan chauvinism and imperialistic stances.
Toda a guerra provavelmente teria ocorrido, exceto o Império Klingon ao lado da Federação
Two months after the Tomed Incident, the Romulan Star Empire forced the Federation to sign The Treaty of Algeron that banned the development of cloaking technology within the Federation in return for the Star Empire's agreement to withdraw behind its borders and to recall all of its diplomatic missions and citizens, effectively isolating them on the astropolitical scene.