For me, it's a tough choice between the Borg and the Romulans.
The Borg are an obvious choice because of the success of so many of the episodes they were in and First Contact. They presented a huge threat to the federation which transcended anything that starfleet was dealing with within the alpha or beta quadrants. Their mystique and raw power made them extremely intriguing. Their unique view of the universe and their main goal of perfection also sparks a big level of interest. Not to mention the basics of what they are, being part biological and part machine. Which is cool just by itself.
The ruthlessness of the Borg was a real point of wonder in a sort of sick way haha. It was as though you knew what they were doing was wrong, but also understood that it might be how a machine thinks, and therefore they didn't necessarily seem to be "pure" evil. You knew that they didn't actually believe what they were doing was making things worse for the people they attacked. They genuinely believed it would be better for those people if they were apart of the collective. Even once the Queen came about and more sinister human type emotions were added to the Borg, she still went about things in such a way as to assimilate rather than destroy. For the most part at least. Sometimes she went off on a tangent haha.
Whilst the Romulans had many great episodes in the series. Nemesis did fail to be a great movie in many aspects. I especially think the Romulan Empire was not portrayed in as grandiose a way that it should of been, and that their huge military power was not put on show at all basically. Star trek 2009 did much the same thing, yet was a more critically acclaimed movie compared to Nemesis no doubt.
The Romulans always invoked images of power and pride. Their ships were bigger and better than federation ships. Their culture was also shrouded in mystery and in most instances it certainly felt as though the Romulans were in fact the most powerful faction of the quadrant. It was always cool to have such an imposing force right on the doorstep of the federation. Just the name alone sounds awesome... "Romulan Star Empire". If some alien you ever ran into said they were apart of the Romulan Star Empire, you'd be like "that sounds awesome, can I join?".
Something about Romulan ships is what does it for me mainly I think. The look of the the type B warbirds and their imposing look and practical power and evasiveness from their cloak. The Scimitar though. That ship is one of the coolest designs to ever come out of a sci-fi franchise in my opinion. It just looked so menacing and it had the best introduction of any ship in all of star trek. No other ship made Picard and the whole crew freak out as much as the Scimitar did when it first was introduced. It had everything. The look, the double shields, the amount of weapons of whole fleet, it's cloak, and it also had a doomsday device which made it the supreme threat in all the galaxy.
So yeah, I'm not sure if I can decide to be honest haha. I like the Borg because of their vastness and unusual methods and philosophy. However, I also like the Romulans because of just how grand their culture is and how awesome their star ships are.
If someone has the dominion as their choice, then I'd like to hear why? Because I have only recently begun DS9 again to try and get into it (for some reason it never took off for me). So far I've liked it a lot. The Dominion seem as though they could hold a similar position to the Romulans. So I'd like to hear thoughts on them as well
The Borg are an obvious choice because of the success of so many of the episodes they were in and First Contact. They presented a huge threat to the federation which transcended anything that starfleet was dealing with within the alpha or beta quadrants. Their mystique and raw power made them extremely intriguing. Their unique view of the universe and their main goal of perfection also sparks a big level of interest. Not to mention the basics of what they are, being part biological and part machine. Which is cool just by itself.
The ruthlessness of the Borg was a real point of wonder in a sort of sick way haha. It was as though you knew what they were doing was wrong, but also understood that it might be how a machine thinks, and therefore they didn't necessarily seem to be "pure" evil. You knew that they didn't actually believe what they were doing was making things worse for the people they attacked. They genuinely believed it would be better for those people if they were apart of the collective. Even once the Queen came about and more sinister human type emotions were added to the Borg, she still went about things in such a way as to assimilate rather than destroy. For the most part at least. Sometimes she went off on a tangent haha.
Whilst the Romulans had many great episodes in the series. Nemesis did fail to be a great movie in many aspects. I especially think the Romulan Empire was not portrayed in as grandiose a way that it should of been, and that their huge military power was not put on show at all basically. Star trek 2009 did much the same thing, yet was a more critically acclaimed movie compared to Nemesis no doubt.
The Romulans always invoked images of power and pride. Their ships were bigger and better than federation ships. Their culture was also shrouded in mystery and in most instances it certainly felt as though the Romulans were in fact the most powerful faction of the quadrant. It was always cool to have such an imposing force right on the doorstep of the federation. Just the name alone sounds awesome... "Romulan Star Empire". If some alien you ever ran into said they were apart of the Romulan Star Empire, you'd be like "that sounds awesome, can I join?".
Something about Romulan ships is what does it for me mainly I think. The look of the the type B warbirds and their imposing look and practical power and evasiveness from their cloak. The Scimitar though. That ship is one of the coolest designs to ever come out of a sci-fi franchise in my opinion. It just looked so menacing and it had the best introduction of any ship in all of star trek. No other ship made Picard and the whole crew freak out as much as the Scimitar did when it first was introduced. It had everything. The look, the double shields, the amount of weapons of whole fleet, it's cloak, and it also had a doomsday device which made it the supreme threat in all the galaxy.
So yeah, I'm not sure if I can decide to be honest haha. I like the Borg because of their vastness and unusual methods and philosophy. However, I also like the Romulans because of just how grand their culture is and how awesome their star ships are.
If someone has the dominion as their choice, then I'd like to hear why? Because I have only recently begun DS9 again to try and get into it (for some reason it never took off for me). So far I've liked it a lot. The Dominion seem as though they could hold a similar position to the Romulans. So I'd like to hear thoughts on them as well
