The development of the Borg over the course of the various Star Trek series (and one of the movies) never made much sense. They eventually decided they needed Borg characters with somewhat individual personalities (aside from semi-reformed Borg like Seven of Nine), so those Borg Queens showed up. Why do the Borg need Queens? The only answers ever given were kind of vague.
The Borg as introduced in their very first appearance were pretty scary, though they would also have been hard to write for long--they were basically an unbeatable menace.
As for the Romulans, I always got a weird sense from the original series that they were vaguely imagined as having parallel-Earth-Roman-Empire aspects. In Old Star Trek's galaxy, there were parallel Earths and funhouse-distorted parallel Earths lying around all over the place, so that scenes there could be filmed easily with existing sets and costumes. For these Vulcan-related aliens to have inexplicable cultural and linguistic similarities to Earth's Roman Empire would not have been too far out of line. TNG and later series mostly retconned that stuff away without comment.
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Date: 2007-10-10 03:43 am (UTC)The Borg as introduced in their very first appearance were pretty scary, though they would also have been hard to write for long--they were basically an unbeatable menace.
As for the Romulans, I always got a weird sense from the original series that they were vaguely imagined as having parallel-Earth-Roman-Empire aspects. In Old Star Trek's galaxy, there were parallel Earths and funhouse-distorted parallel Earths lying around all over the place, so that scenes there could be filmed easily with existing sets and costumes. For these Vulcan-related aliens to have inexplicable cultural and linguistic similarities to Earth's Roman Empire would not have been too far out of line. TNG and later series mostly retconned that stuff away without comment.