#Romulans

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It highly amuses me to consider Romulan bureaucracy. No one knows what anyone is doing. Every other department is secret. You're just one woman in the Infrastructure department trying to approve a a traffic light on Colosseum street but for some reason your whole budget was just eaten up by the yearly Tal Shiar shoulder pad order.

captaincrusher

Idea: A mockumentary, Parks and Rec style, on Romulus. Everyone is just as incompetent but they're also all somehow spies.

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akkkkaall1ttyynnn asked:

The Romulans and Cardassians feel like they have a similar species concept. How do you separate them?

writergeekrhw answered:

I feel like the Romulans are Imperialistic and Machiavellian while the Cardassians are Colonialists and Fascists. I know those are small distinctions, but for example:

Romulans are happy with tribute. Cardassians want to occupy, exploit, and exterminate.

Romulan trials might be politically motivated, but probably follow a set procedure and if you pull the right strings, you might get a fair trial. Cardassian trials are Orwellian and EVERYONE ends up guilty, often for crimes they did not commit (if anyone ever actually tells them what they’re charged with).

Romulan government is a constant shifting oligarchy made up of numorous factions plotting against each other. Sudden coups are not uncommon. Cardassian government is a faceless, implacable bureaucracy which crushes all dissent. Coups are rare.

The history of the Romulan Empire would be written by Edward Gibbon with an assist by George R. R. Martin. The history of Cardassia would be penned by Kafka, Huxley, and Orwell.

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