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...politics in DS9) and real-world geopolitics. He’d find The Expanse’s Earth-Mars-Belter tension compelling, possibly comparing it to DS9's Dominion War arc.
"The Belt feels like Bajor under Cardassian rule, but stretched across an entire culture."
Mature Serialized Storytelling
Since he's...
...so much being a "What if?" but a "Why bother?" scenario. You didn't say why you feel the Federation might consider voluntarily joining the Dominion, and the most likely scenario otherwise seems to me that the Dominion conquers the Federation, in which case Earth is either destroyed or...
...make it competitive against designs like the Intrepid.
The Foxhound Project, as it came to be known, made progress in fits and starts. The Dominion War delayed the project for two years as team members were reassigned to tasks deemed critical to the war effort, though data collected during...
...far into DS9 during first-run, because I know I saw the tribbles tribute episode when it aired, and is one that i have often revisited, but I know I missed the bulk of the dominion war. DS9 is kind of collateral damage with my dislike for the rest of the 24th, which solidified after Generations.
...And it had some nice exposition with the assorted characters. 8/10.
The Phage: Introduced the Vidiians, the most promising baddies since the Dominion. 7/10.
The Cloud: I guess there wasn't coffee in that nebula after all. 6/10.
Eye of the Needle: Voyager's first chance to go home epic fails...
...They've been traveling through the Delta Quadrant for years now. It's getting to some of them. They know the Federation is at war with the Dominion and it's going badly; they know the other Maquis have either been wiped out or are in prison. Maybe some crewmembers, like Chel, don't have...
The Feds would only join the Dominion under duress, or possibly to seek defence against an even more dangerous enemy (like the Borg). Any kind of 'membership' probably wouldn't be pleasant, with the typical freedoms enjoyed by Federation citizens being rapidly curtailed.
There was a fanfiction I read where the Dominion opened up another wormhole a few decades after DS9 ended and invaded again. They overwhelmed the Alpha Quadrant and forced everyone to surrender. That's about the only way I could see a lot of the Alpha Quadrant states joining the Dominion.
The Federation wasn't like the Cardassian alliance, which had been a tyrannical police state for decades, and therefore could transition to Dominion rule easily enough. By its very nature, the Federation was the opposite of the Dominion, a culture based in freedom and self determination. It...
Not good, I think.
They would have become a Dominion colony. The Dominion would steal all resources from the federation, the citizens would have been forced to fight in wars for the Dominion, the freedom would have been taken from them and the Founders would have become dictators.
Just see...
They really needed to stop going back to prequels and make a new series taking place sometime after the Dominion war, without the dumb destruction of Romulus.
What if the Federation joined the Dominion? I am speaking of in-universe events and how such a thing might occur, and what it would result in. If they joined the Dominion, or at least aligned with them willingly instead of fighting a war against them - how that'd have went.
...makers.
I technically watched 'Fallen Kingdom' but care barely remember a thing about it, so I guess I didn't like it? Didn't bother with Dominion since it looked bad in the trailer and the reaction upon release did nothing to change that perception.
This new movie however at least looks...
tbf, those plans were made in peacetime, before the reveal of the Borg, the reemergence of the Romulans, the Dominion war, klingon turmoils that could have boiled over, etc.
...be used in our daily lives. (Such as "Hear all, trust nothing" or "The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife".)
And third... the Dominion gets their first mention here. A stroke of genius to plant the seed of the Dominion in a Ferengi episode.
TOS: "Who Mourns For Adonais?"
TOS: "The...
The Jem'Hadar turned the series on its head with the introduction of the Dominion.
TOS: "Who Mourns For Adonais?"
TOS: "The Changeling"
TOS: "Mirror, Mirror"
TOS: "The Apple"
TOS: "Catspaw"
TOS: "I, Mudd"
TOS: "Metamorphosis"
TOS: "Journey To Babel"
TOS: "Friday's Child"
TOS: "The Deadly Years"...
...to give the Koma Tath a new mission." said Cen.
"The Koma Tath is supposed to hunt down Cardassian war criminals. and expanded to the Dominion and the Breen. They might go after Federation, Klingon and Romulan war criminals." said Sanders.
"I cannot speak for the Klingon or the Romulans...