Why oh why did I bother with spoiler tags...
In the original, there is no "queen" identified. There is a mothership coordinating them, and they spread a virus out that takes down the shields. They then detonate the mothership. The fighters are seen still zipping around, even after the city sized ship has been destroyed, at this point they're blowing up ships all over the world, but they're blowing them up, not watching them fall out of the sky inert. The queen idea is retconned into the original without any evidence of it, then completely ignored for purposes of having people with experience fighting them in the ass end of nowhere. There can't even have been a queen in the first place because the other alien stated no one had ever killed a queen. It's as consistent as the newly gay scientist who showed no such indications of being involved with his coworker in the original.
As far as the ships being different goes, they did set it up as the fighters needing some sort of larger ship to be active. The implication in the original is either that they were locked down somehow without one present, or actually powered remotely, but this would have meant they fell out of the sky when the last city ship was destroyed, since they didn't all crash when the mothership exploded. In the second one, the newly droned aliens and their technology are tied to the queen itself, who controls the hijacked ships at will.
Edit, and the spoiler tags broke the thread, lol...
