I've always thought of them as terms for planets that might not even have human-vocalisable names that are just run through a basic translation. A lot of countries on Earth translate as "Home of The People" after all and if planets have the same it would make sense to render it as "Speciestania".
On the other hand Klingons have Qo'nos of course. The Rihannsu continuity of Romulans that most fans (and the creators of Enterprise, and the guys running Star Trek Online) pretend is the real canon has the Romulan homeworlds as ch'Rihan (Of the Declared) and ch'Havran (Of the Travelers) which are references to the Romulans running away from Vulcan in sublight ships in order to preserve the original (bloody, violent, nuke happy) Vulcan culture.
My favourite thing about Romulans is that their names for Terrans and Klingons (1st and 2nd contact respectively if you don't count an alien invasion of Vulcan) are "Them, From There" and "More Of Them, From Somewhere Else."
I've always thought of them as terms for planets that might not even have human-vocalisable names that are just run through a basic translation. A lot of countries on Earth translate as "Home of The People" after all and if planets have the same it would make sense to render it as "Speciestania".
On the other hand Klingons have Qo'nos of course. The Rihannsu continuity of Romulans that most fans (and the creators of Enterprise, and the guys running Star Trek Online) pretend is the real canon has the Romulan homeworlds as ch'Rihan (Of the Declared) and ch'Havran (Of the Travelers) which are references to the Romulans running away from Vulcan in sublight ships in order to preserve the original (bloody, violent, nuke happy) Vulcan culture.
My favourite thing about Romulans is that their names for Terrans and Klingons (1st and 2nd contact respectively if you don't count an alien invasion of Vulcan) are "Them, From There" and "More Of Them, From Somewhere Else."