Most Hostile Quadrant?
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Yes but not all the episodes deal with hostile alien races. Sometimes the crew enocunters peaceful races or doesn't meet any new species at all.
For me it's probably the Delta Quadrant. It seemed like 99% of the alien races we saw were hostile or deceptive in some way.
Those Delta guys could be pretty hostile.
But the Delta Quadrant had the Borg on top of a bunch of other nasties, so probably the Delta.
But the Delta Quadrant had the Borg on top of a bunch of other nasties, so probably the Delta.
Klingons and Romulans are pretty much Beta Quadrant powers. It's reasonable to conclude the Hirogen are, also.
Alpha Quadrant consists of the Federation and Cardassian empires, along with minor powers such as Gorn, Tholian, Ferengi, Breen, etc...
Gamma Quadrant had the Founders, and Jem Hadar and their subjugated races.
Delta Quadrant was mainly the Borg and and Kazon, along with the minor races.
For ultimate danger, I say it comes down to Jem Hadar vs. Borg. I'd at least have a chance to live under the Jem Hadar, whereas the Borg were bent on extermination, I mean, assimilation.
Alpha Quadrant consists of the Federation and Cardassian empires, along with minor powers such as Gorn, Tholian, Ferengi, Breen, etc...
Gamma Quadrant had the Founders, and Jem Hadar and their subjugated races.
Delta Quadrant was mainly the Borg and and Kazon, along with the minor races.
For ultimate danger, I say it comes down to Jem Hadar vs. Borg. I'd at least have a chance to live under the Jem Hadar, whereas the Borg were bent on extermination, I mean, assimilation.
The Delta Quadrant seemed like the most hostile but only because Voyager was alone and an easy target. They also had to cross into a lot of alien territory to get home.
In the first couple seasons of ENT, the NX01 was getting attacked a lot too making the Alpha Quadrant seem quite hostile. But fast forward to Kirk's time and the Romulans had been humiliated by Earth and is allies at the Battle of Cheron. The Klingons admired the strength of Starfleet and eventually decided it was not worth devoting their resources to continued hostility with the Federation. People knew not the fuck with ships that bear the seal of the United Federation of Planets. By Picard's time, the power of the Federation-Klingon alliance made the Alpha Quadrant pretty tame. The Enterprise-D was probably attacked the least of all the series. The Romulans had several chances to destroy her but they were not ready to fight the rest of the Federation-Klingon Fleets in an all out war.
That of course changed after the Founders infiltrated the Alpha Quadrant powers and started wars between each other. And after those wars the Dominion felt the Alpha Quadrant was weak enough to invade. Suddenly the Alpha Quadrant was quite hostile again.
So IMO all the quadrants are equally hostile. How often they attack really just depends on how much they fear the rest of Starfleet at that time.
As cousin Gaila was saying "Millions up millions of stars and at any given time, half of them are fanatically dedicated to destroying the other half"
In the first couple seasons of ENT, the NX01 was getting attacked a lot too making the Alpha Quadrant seem quite hostile. But fast forward to Kirk's time and the Romulans had been humiliated by Earth and is allies at the Battle of Cheron. The Klingons admired the strength of Starfleet and eventually decided it was not worth devoting their resources to continued hostility with the Federation. People knew not the fuck with ships that bear the seal of the United Federation of Planets. By Picard's time, the power of the Federation-Klingon alliance made the Alpha Quadrant pretty tame. The Enterprise-D was probably attacked the least of all the series. The Romulans had several chances to destroy her but they were not ready to fight the rest of the Federation-Klingon Fleets in an all out war.
That of course changed after the Founders infiltrated the Alpha Quadrant powers and started wars between each other. And after those wars the Dominion felt the Alpha Quadrant was weak enough to invade. Suddenly the Alpha Quadrant was quite hostile again.
So IMO all the quadrants are equally hostile. How often they attack really just depends on how much they fear the rest of Starfleet at that time.
As cousin Gaila was saying "Millions up millions of stars and at any given time, half of them are fanatically dedicated to destroying the other half"
Since the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans were sucked into a long, bloody war, I would have to say the Gamma Quadrant.
The DQ was hostile, mainly due to the Borg, but most of the other races were not much different than the AQ in terms of being a threat to the federation. Kazon, while agressive and sort of Klingon-like, would be hardly a threat to the Federation as a whole. Their technology was over a century behind. Hell, the USS Voyager was only in danger when you had 10+ Kazon ships involved.
The DQ was hostile, mainly due to the Borg, but most of the other races were not much different than the AQ in terms of being a threat to the federation. Kazon, while agressive and sort of Klingon-like, would be hardly a threat to the Federation as a whole. Their technology was over a century behind. Hell, the USS Voyager was only in danger when you had 10+ Kazon ships involved.
Delta quadrant might have been more hostile but the hostility was coming from some of the most backward, unimpressive species ever seen.
Gamma quadrant is probably quite peaceful but only because of authoritarian Dominion rule.
Depends how you define hostile?
Probably Alpha/Beta quadrants.
Gamma quadrant is probably quite peaceful but only because of authoritarian Dominion rule.
Depends how you define hostile?
Probably Alpha/Beta quadrants.
I opted for Alpha.
You have the Breen, Cardassians, Talarians (though granted not a huge threat), Tholians, Tzenkethi--and those are just the main ones that spring to mind.
Plus you get overly aggressive Ferengi at times, not to mention a stable wormhole that open the quadrant up to invasion.
You have the Breen, Cardassians, Talarians (though granted not a huge threat), Tholians, Tzenkethi--and those are just the main ones that spring to mind.
Plus you get overly aggressive Ferengi at times, not to mention a stable wormhole that open the quadrant up to invasion.
I agree. What we've seen of both is pretty bad but for all we know at the moment there could be Federation style alliances in both quadrants that have yet to be contacted.
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