ALTERNATE HISTORY Thread - What would happen if...

[C_Miller]

The crew realizes that Holo programs are the greatest threat to people this side of the Dominion and they have the holosuites dismantled, something that Quark actually permits seeing as they killed his best friend and his nephew. There is a small positive, since this was a few months after The Doctor came to the Alpha Quadrant, so they are able to reproduce a mobile emitter for Vic, so he doesn't have to die too.

Unfortunately for Starfleet, a horribly distraught Kira is unable to function and therefore she cannot go to Cardassia to aid in the underground rebellion and they are quickly squashed by the Dominion. The Federation Alliance doesn't have the help of the Cardassians at the Battle of Cardassia and they lose badly with the Defiant getting destroyed again. And sadly, they aren't as lucky with survivors. Sisko makes a point to go down with his ship and make sure that everyone else gets off and the Dominion begin to pick off random escape pods, hitting the one that Worf is in.

There is a small victory 8 months later when the disease wipes out the entire race of Founders. The Jem'hadar kill all of the Vorta and then slowly commit suicide as the white runs out. Without the Dominion, the Breen nor the Cardassians are really much of a threat and they surrender.

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What if Commander William T. Riker and Ro Laren were assigned to Deep Space Nine as Commanding Officer and Liason?

 

[Vulcan Princess]

The Prophets wouldn't have allowed the discovery of the wormhole, since they would only reveal themselves to the Emissary. So, DS9 stays in orbit of Bajor as a minor outpost. The Bajorans view Ro with hostility because she's in Starfleet, and the tensions between the Bajorans and Starfleet don't smooth over. When the Federation is kicked out during the Circle crisis, the Circle wins and then the Cardassians come back to take over.

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What if Kira had killed Dukat when she went to the past with the Orb of Time?

 

[DonIago]

With the death of Gul Dukat the Cardassians are forced to find a replacement prefect. The Detapa Council refuses any militant recommendations from Central Command, and turn to Aamin Marritza, a modest-but-efficient file clerk who also has political connections to Tekeny Ghemor and is mildly respected by Central Command. Marritza's policies on Bajor are gentler than his predecessor's , hindering the development of the Bajoran resistance and reducing Cardassian casualties, prolonging the Cardassian occupation while simultaneously lessening its brutality. Central Command increasingly loses political ground to the Detapa Council as it becomes clear that Marritza's style of governance yields greater results than Dukat's.

Seeking to foster goodwill, Marritza allows the Federation to send observers to Bajor to establish that the Cardassian presence is not as oppressive as has been claimed. Benjamin Sisko visits Kai Opaka and ultimately discovers the Bajoran wormhole. Sisko and Marritza work with moderates within the Cardassian government to share the benefits of travel to the GQ with both the Federation and the Cardassians.

In time the Cardassian presence from Bajor is withdrawn and Terok Nor is turned over to the Bajoran government. A Federation-Bajoran-Cardassian alliance is formed. When first contact with the Dominion is made the Founders are unable to establish a foothold in the AQ, and Odo convinces them that they have nothing to gain by taking hostile action against the AQ at this time. They agree to "wait and see".

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What if Gul Dukat successfully had Garak assassinated prior to first contact with the Dominion?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Enabran Tain, outraged over his son's death, sends operatives who kill Dukat. The Detapa Council seizes upon this opportunity and manages to retake its place as the legitimate government of Cardassia (overthrowing the dictatorship of Central Command). Tain comes out of retirement to lead the Obsidian Order once again, but the Council manages to hold them off. An uneasy truce is formed, with the Order remaining as the secret police of Cardassia while the Detapa Council is the actual government. When first contact with the Dominion is made, the Council is immediately suspicious of them and signs a treaty of alliance with the Federation, Klingons and Romulans to hold back the Dominion threat. The Dominion, sensing that three powers allied against them will be more than a match, turns tail and retreats back into the Gamma Quadrant (they are unable to use shapeshifters to infiltrate any of the major powers, since the Obsidian Order is expert at detecting this sort of thing). To this day they have not been seen again.

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What if, after the events of "Resurrection", the Intendant killed our universe's Kira and replaced her?

 

[DonIago]

^(laughs) That was one of the what-ifs I was considering using, though I hadn't gotten so far as figuring out a timeframe.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I only placed it that far ahead because it's the only time the Intendant ever came to the regular universe, AFAIK.

 

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What if, after the events of "Resurrection", the Intendant killed our universe's Kira and replaced her?

In reality, I am pretty sure her fellow officers will realize Kira changed about 10 minutes into a conversation with her. But since we are having fun...

Evil Kira resigns her posts on DS9 and returns to Bajor claiming she requires spiritual cleansing. Back on Bajor, Kira is received as a hero and she quickly gains a following. Kira becomes a vadek and quickly plots to become Kai. She stages assassinations of the current spiritual leaders, blames it on the Federation, and masterminds a plot to accuse Sisko of lying about being the Emissary.

Kira succeeds in being elected as both the spiritual and political leader of Bajor. She officially breaks ties with the Federation and joins the Dominion. Without DS9 and direct access to the worm hole, the Dominion was able to bring in wave and wave of reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant. The war lasts for a decade, and ends with the Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Empire in utter ruins.

In the Dominion, Kira furthers her thirst for power by sleeping with Weyoun and working her way to becoming on equal grounds as Vortas. She then convinces the founders that the Vortas are not sufficient in running the Alpha Quadrant. She waits for the demise of the Great Link and using a fake changling, she gain total control of the Dominion from behind the puppet god.

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What if NOG was able to deliver a message to the Grand Nagus and the Nagus decides to throw all of the Ferengi resources (not so much in the military sense but in economical and essential war supplies)

 

[DonIago]

The war ends about five minutes sooner.

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What if Bashir and Kira had crossed over into an MU where the Terran Empire never fell?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Empire would have killed them and replaced them with their MU counterparts, who would then be sent back into the RU as prelude to an invasion. However, their ruse would be quickly discovered - at which point our Odo would decide to become Bashir, then return to the MU and tell them that the plan failed. Our Odo would link with his mirror counterpart and convince him to turn the other Dominion - who are not evil, like the normal Dominion are - against the Empire. War between the Empire and the mirror Dominion quickly breaks out, and the two sides destroy each other.

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What if all those Jem'Hadar ships from "Sacrifice of Angels" (which the Prophets caused to disappear) ended up in the hands of the Terran Rebellion in the MU?

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

The Terran Rebellion rapidly destroys all the Alliance ships in the sector. But the rebellion is just that-- a rebellion, and it fails to start a government like the RU Terrans. It represents no threats outside its own holdings, but it certainly keeps out waves and waves of Alliance ships. The Klingons are become fanatical in [futilely] attacking the Terran sectors, and the Romulans take advantage of the weakened Empire and take over as the Alpha Quadrant dominant power. The Terrans aren't very threatened by the Romulans: the Romulans leave the Terrans alone (not that they could hurt the Terrans with those ships anyway). The regular common folk humans eek out livings on their unorganized planets admiring the gallivanting, privateer-minded ship captains, one of which is Mr. Bashir. Somehow in that twisted universe he was still genetically engineered, and was one of the first to learn how to use the Dominion ships...

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What if Quark had been named the Emissary instead?

 

[C_Miller]

Sisko does decide to leave at the end of Emissary. He can say he stayed for the Wormhole, but in reality it was his role as the Emissary that kept him there. Kira ends up losing faith in the Bajoran Religion and ends up losing favor with the Bajoran Religious sects and she is pulled for Deep Space Nine. Because Jake doesn't go to the Gamma Quadrant for his science project, they stumble on the Dominion much later when Ferengi economic interests hit the Founders Homeworld. It starts off okay, but soon drifts off to war once Starfleet gets involved.

Unfortunately Dukat still goes crazy and tries to call the pah-wraiths. However, Quark as the Emissary is not there to stop him and they are unleashed destroying Bajor and they work their way to the rest of the Alpha Quadrant.


What if Deep Space Nine was not issued the Defiant?

 

[Finn]

Sisko brings a brand new starship which he had worked on for some time, USS Voyager. He feels that it will help the Federation deal with the Dominion. He takes it into the GQ to find the founders.

Meanwhile, Captain Janeway is assigned a Galaxy Class starship, the Plymouth and is sent to the Badlands. Three years later, The Plymouth emerges out of the Bazaran wormhole with two Ferengi prisoners and Viidian technology. This helps the Federation fight the Dominion more effectively. The war is won after only two months.

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What if Miles never was able to get Sisko's desk back?

 

[Danoz]

Miles O'Brien is repremanded by Sisko for giving his security codes to a subordinate (Nog), though he never actually logs the complaint and Miles arranges for an identical desk to be placed. O'Brien makes it a point to never fully trust Nog again, and their relationship is strained by the situation. Nog eventually comes through to help with the graviton stabilizers, but the damage is done. Given the critical time for the war, the situation is quickly forgotten by all parties.

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At the start of the war, what if Picard and the flagship Enterprise had been assigned to offer station and wormhole security, and received the Romulan's temporary cloaking ability instead of the Defiant?

 

[The_Baroness]

The Enterprise excels in it's role defending Deep Space Nine and Bajor and in all of it's initial conflicts with the Dominion, however when the Borg invade the Federation, and Picard is ordered to stay where he is, he disobeys orders and returns to Earth to engage the Borg and destroying the cube.

As before, the Enterprise-E follows the Borg Sphere back in time to 2063. Attempting to restore the timeline, and minimising further contamination to it, Picard orders the cloak raised to avoid detection by anyone on Earth.

As a result of this, and being out of contact with the Enterprise Riker, Troi and LaForge are unable to prove to Cochrane that the Enterprise is really in orbit, and he fails to believe their stories of being from the future and refuses to complete work on the Phoenix.

It's never launched, the Vulcans never make first contact and though the Borg are defeated aboard the Enterprise, and therefore do not assimilate Earth, the Federation never comes into being and the Earths first contact with aliens is with Klingons, after one crash lands on Earth (as per 'Broken Bow'), the Klingons trace his ship to Earth and the Empire promptly seizes control of Earth as part of their empire.

the hostilities between the Vulcans and Andorians escalates to the point that the Vulcans are forced to turn to the Romulans for help, and the two powers re-unify under Romulan rule, and the Andorians are defeated.

Never existing, the Federation never have a presence at Deep Space Nine and the wormhole is never discovered, but the Alpha Quadrant is racked by almost constant war over the course of the 23rd and 24th centuries between the Klingon and Romulan empires.

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What if the Wormhole led to the Delta Quadrant, but the caretaker array was in the Gamma?

 

[infinix]

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What if the Wormhole led to the Delta Quadrant, but the caretaker array was in the Gamma?

Instead of discovering the Dominion, Sisko and party discovers the Borg. The Federation decides to not take any chances with having the Borg pour into the AQ en mass, so it mines both ends of the worm hole. Section 31, however, knew that the mines are not the long term solution, and secretly collapses the worm hole. Without the Prophets, Bajor loses its ways and the entire population literally loses the will to live. Ben Sisko never fulfills his purpose in life and having failed his mission at assisting Bajor, he quite Starfleet and become a chef at his father's restaurant.

Mean while, Janeway runs into the Dominion, is fooled by their false promises of safe passage, and proposes an alliance. During the meeting, the entire senior crew of Voyager was captured and replaced with changlings. Kim was spared because he is only an ensign. The Dominion follows Voyager back to the AQ and begins systemically annexing smaller powers int he quadrant. The fake Janeway and crew assassinates the key leaders of the Federation, the Klingon, the Romulan, and the Cardassian. This causes the 4 major powers to go into war with each other. The Dominion quickly takes over the entire quadrant.

The real Janeway, having survived imprisonment, is released at an old age and decides to change history. She steals a temporal ship, goes back in time to when Voyager was just entering the Badlands before the caretaker grabbed them. The old Janeway rams the temporal vessel into Voyager, destroying both ships with all hands on board, erasing the the series, i mean the ship, from existence.

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What if there were no Founders? What if the Dominion were simply run by the Vorta race who's only desire is to expand its territory and conquer other species?

 

[Rom's Sehlat]

Then Odo presumably wouldn't have existed. During the Cardassian reign of terror on Bajor and Terok Nor, no morally-superior security guard would be there to keep a check on Cardassian offenses. The Bajorans get fed up with the Cardassians a year or two sooner, and invite the Federation all the same. The wormhole is discovered by whomever it was in "The Emissary," but instead of Sisko as a CO (he was still a Commander on some dinky ship somewhere), they have... Captain Ross (in this chance universe, he wasn't made an Admiral yet). He isn't name any Emissary, and the wormhole aliens kill him because he's not their prophet. Due to the peaceable nature of the Federation, they send in another person before considering war, and that man is Sisko. The wormhole aliens name him their emissary. Then things are mostly the same, until they meet the Dominion. As the Federation learns of the deceit of the Vorta to the Jem'Hadar, Section 31 feels it necessary to expose the truth to the Jem'Hadar, if onkly to occupy them while the Federation gets its act together. Section 31's big, hidden plot this time is to collapse the wormhole. They almost succeed, but Bashir and O'Brien still got their hands on Sloan (for some reason...), and they get Sisko to stop the attack on the wormhole. Bajor is appalled that the Federation (but's it's not us, it's this rogue organization!) would try to kill their deities and kick the Feds out. They embrace the failing remnants of the Dominion, but the few remaining Jem'Hadar (that broke their dependence on White) can't stop the Cardassians... so Cardassia gets Bajor back, Sisko's a broken man working as a chef at Sisko's (who never met Kassidy), and Kira dies blowing up Terok Nor. She'd rather die than let more of her people be killed by that incessantly annoying Dukat. And the really sad part is Dukat wasn't even on the station... he was in the Fire Caves unleashing Pah-wraiths at the time...

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What if Bashir-Changeling had decided to confuse a ganglionic nerve with a ganglionic fiber during the operation to relieve Sisko of those visions in that one episode and Sisko "accidentally" died?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Bashir-Changeling accidentally (and publicly) gloats a little bit too much over Sisko's death. Bashir is exposed as a Changeling and killed. Kira, now in command of DS9, pushes the Bajoran government to immediately join the Federation - reasoning that Sisko wanted it that way all along, and that the visions were only confusing him. Starfleet puts extra resources into fighting the Dominion due to their outrage over Sisko's death. War drags on for years, but eventually the alliance (Federation and Klingons) manages to push the Dominion back into the Gamma Quadrant. The Klingons, avenging the death of Sisko - whom they had come to respect - destroy the Founder and Vorta homeworlds. The Jem'Hadar are all killed when the supplies of White are poisoned. All other races in the Dominion decide to throw in their lot with the Federation.

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In "Trials and Tribble-ations", what if Arne Darvin decides to go back to ST:Enterprise's time frame instead (to wipe out Kirk's ancestors before he's born) and the DS9 crew follow him there and meet Archer and crew?

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Archer gives the gazell speech to Darwin who promptly kills himself and then the DS9 crew goes home. The timeline stays largely the same as a rersult.

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What if the klingons were right about Changelings controlling the Cardassian government.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Archer gives the gazell speech to Darwin who promptly kills himself and then the DS9 crew goes home.

What if the klingons were right about Changelings controlling the Cardassian government.

The Federation and the Klingon Empire mount a joint invasion of Cardassian territory. The leadership of the Detapa Council orders a counterstrike, but thanks to strategically placed radiation emitting satellites, the changelings are exposed and killed. Dukat, ashamed at letting his government be taken over, turns himself in to a joint war crimes tribunal for charges. Damar is installed as the new leader of Cardassia.

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What if Garak married Ziyal?

 

[infinix]

What if Garak married Ziyal?

Ducat still loses his mind because Ziyal abandoned him for his mortal enemy. However, instead of turning to the Pah Raths, Ducat slowly recovers when Garak and Ziyal has their first child. Ducat defects to the Federation and turns over all available intelligence on the Dominion. With Ducat's help, Starfleet was able to destroy most of the ship yards and white facility in Dominion space. The war ends much quicker and Sisko didn't have to become one of the prophets.

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What if the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shi Yar never went along with Tain's idea of attacking the Founder's home world? As a result, these two agencies are still in-tact and very much powerful when the Dominion attempts to infiltrate the Alpha Quadrant.