Dominion occupation of Earth - how much resistance/compliance there would have been?

[kkt]

And I guarantee that the Founders would have destroyed the Cardassians later anyway, even if they won the war, because they did attack their homeworld.

The Female Changeling's words to Garak in "BROKEN LINK" imply this.

"They're dead. You're dead. Cardassia is dead."

Yes. One possibility for a sequel to DS9: The Dominion regarding the whole season 6-7 war as a prelude. Being unable to resupply their forces in the Alpha was crippling. They were just seeing how much they'd be up against. And they almost won! So the Dominion has a much larger task force on its way from the Gamma Quadrant, a slower way that uses some wormholes they know about but not as direct as the Prophet's Wormhole. The task force should arrive in 15 years or so. They will finish off all of them - the leftover Cardassians who escaped, Romulans because the plot to commit genocide against the Founders was as much Romulan as Cardassian, and the Federation for attempting genocide using the disease Section 31 created.

 

[Frontis]

Somehow the Cardassians have always been the jerks and the loosers of DS9.

 

[at Quark's]

Somehow the Cardassians have always been the jerks and the loosers of DS9.

In a way, they remind me a bit of Mussolini's Italy - supposed pride in their traditions, their appreciation of force, ruthlessness and cunning to achieve their goal, and their 'glorious' past, a megalomaniac leader, but when it came down to it, their military actually wasn't that good.

Oh yes, and in allying with a stronger and even more ruthless party whom they managed to disappoint (militarily) repeatedly, and finally by suddenly switching sides.

 

[Kamau1865]

Let's imagine that Dominion had won the war (how exactly - Prophets decided not to intervene, Jack managed to give Weyoun the data, Vreenak exposed the fake before his shuttle blew up or something else - isn't important). Let's also assume that Weyoun's words about destroying Earth were merely his own opinion and weren't representing the Link's intentions. Let's also assume that Earth hadn't been given to Cardassians or Breen but rather was annexed to the Dominion as a separate subject.

How would the Earth's population have reacted to the occupation? On the one hand, Humans in Star Trek are shown to value freedom much more than other races. On the other hand, how many members of such a post-scarcity society would prefer the horrors of war to sometimes obeying a Vorta? A Taste of Armageddon has shown that a society on Earth-like level of development, in fact, can make concessions in a war which had been existential for them before just to avoid the horrors of war. Of course, Humans are not Eminians but still, what would be the share of Humans thinking like "I haven't seen a single Jem'Hadar, I don't give a fuck about a Vorta sitting in San Francisco, and the most important thing for me is whether the climate control system on Risa works properly" and like "I would rather die from the Quickening than obey that long-eared mutants"?

I think it may have been mode of an annihilation rather than an occupation. Perhaps wiping out the population of Earth and stripping it of natural resources.