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Good list. I hope you don't mind if I add a few of my thoughts to yours.

6) Pick an enemy, and tell the story. Borg destroy and absorb. Hence the term "Resistance is Futile...you will be Assimulated". There is not a 'Good Borg', making "Hugh, the friendly Borg" destroyed the entire Borg premise. In a rationale Borg society, Hugh would have been found defective, and either destroyed, or re-programmed.

7) Klingons worship battle, conquest and honor. Having a tentitive and lose treaty is fine. Having them as an ally is just ridiculous. A Klingon NEEDS no ally, for they are warriors who fight for themselves.

8) Sex sells. Whether it's the hottie chasing James T. Kirk around in a micro-mini or babes in skintight spandex jumpsuits(Buck Rogers), give your audience (males) what they want. Percentage wise, how many females watch Star Trek. Do your writers have any clue who your audience is?

Klingons worship battle, conquest and honor.

Bear in mind that the original Klingons were not beyond cheating, lying, and killing innocents to get their way. They poisoned the grain in The Trouble with Tribbles and used a disguised agent. Kor was killing large numbers of Organians to terrorize them. And let's not forget Kang's crew had agonizers to cause pain. Honorable? That's all the fault of that bloody music from the opening from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The Cardasians followed a similar path from scummy to OK.

6) Pick an enemy, and tell the story. Borg destroy and absorb. Hence the term "Resistance is Futile...you will be Assimulated". There is not a 'Good Borg', making "Hugh, the friendly Borg" destroyed the entire Borg premise. In a rationale Borg society, Hugh would have been found defective, and either destroyed, or re-programmed.

Or worse, pirate borgs led by Data's evil twin brother, that say "Arr!"