"The Neutral Zone was intended to be the first part of an arc that brought the Federation and the Romulans into an alliance against the Borg, but a writer's strike at the end of the first season nixed that idea."
Actually, I clicked on this thread hoping it would be about this. The Romulan-Borg encounter referred to (without calling them Borg) in The Neutral Zone was to be followed up in season two with an extended storyline starting with:
A small Borg scout ship, not even a cube, enters Romulan space... and destroys the Romulans. That's how powerful one Borg ship was supposed to be. I don't think assimilation was involved... in Q Who you might remember, the consuming of alien technology was more important to them. Anyway, Starfleet gets bizarre reports that the Romulan Empire might be... well, gone... and they begin furiously scrambling to figure out what's happening and what to do about whoever devastated the Romulans.
There may have been a handful of Romulan ships left in remote areas, and this may be where the idea of a Fed-Rom alliance comes from. The Federation does struggle to get hold of Romulan intelligence on the Borg.
Much of a season was going to be taken up with Picard going to Q for help against the Borg, and it was supposed to be a matter of having to keep going to a very flawed god to defeat a devil. Come to think of it, it must be season three they were aiming for with this I guess, since they still had more setting up to do for this storyline, the one example being "Time Squared" which was originally (somehow) meant to lead into the storyline.
Actually, I clicked on this thread hoping it would be about this. The Romulan-Borg encounter referred to (without calling them Borg) in The Neutral Zone was to be followed up in season two with an extended storyline starting with:
A small Borg scout ship, not even a cube, enters Romulan space... and destroys the Romulans. That's how powerful one Borg ship was supposed to be. I don't think assimilation was involved... in Q Who you might remember, the consuming of alien technology was more important to them. Anyway, Starfleet gets bizarre reports that the Romulan Empire might be... well, gone... and they begin furiously scrambling to figure out what's happening and what to do about whoever devastated the Romulans.
There may have been a handful of Romulan ships left in remote areas, and this may be where the idea of a Fed-Rom alliance comes from. The Federation does struggle to get hold of Romulan intelligence on the Borg.
Much of a season was going to be taken up with Picard going to Q for help against the Borg, and it was supposed to be a matter of having to keep going to a very flawed god to defeat a devil. Come to think of it, it must be season three they were aiming for with this I guess, since they still had more setting up to do for this storyline, the one example being "Time Squared" which was originally (somehow) meant to lead into the storyline.
