It’s a stupid treaty provision. “We won’t develop technology you and the Klingons already have and use against us all the time” would be one thing if the treaty was a surrender, but it wasn’t, it was a brokered treaty to prevent a war after an incident that went undescribed but was responsible for significant, but not on the scale of Wolf 359 significant life loss. It’s a hell of a thing for the Federation to give up and the actual reason why is never stated.
It also resulted in romulans falling back to their own territory and allowing for federation control of planets like Kotaari which is a huge boon for its dilithium reserves alone. The romulans also thought the federation was developing WMDs after the Tomed incident essentially turned an entire sector of space into an inhospitable wasteland. They probably also didn’t want to start another war on the scale of the first romulan war, especially with the romulans having no hesitation when it comes to war crimes.
It’s a stupid treaty provision. “We won’t develop technology you and the Klingons already have and use against us all the time” would be one thing if the treaty was a surrender, but it wasn’t, it was a brokered treaty to prevent a war after an incident that went undescribed but was responsible for significant, but not on the scale of Wolf 359 significant life loss. It’s a hell of a thing for the Federation to give up and the actual reason why is never stated.
It also resulted in romulans falling back to their own territory and allowing for federation control of planets like Kotaari which is a huge boon for its dilithium reserves alone. The romulans also thought the federation was developing WMDs after the Tomed incident essentially turned an entire sector of space into an inhospitable wasteland. They probably also didn’t want to start another war on the scale of the first romulan war, especially with the romulans having no hesitation when it comes to war crimes.