DOMINION WAR WWII COMPARISON...
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I don't think there are many direct analogies, but there are many evocative similarities. The "occupation arc" has TONS of similarities to stories from occupied Paris. The Chintoka (sp?) offense was clearly a D-Day. The surrender is a near-recreation of the ceremony on the Missouri, (including MacArthur's speech), except that ALL the powers in the war are represented.
The Dominion had very clear ideological reasons for starting the war with the Federation. They couldn't allow their conquered peoples to see a free society. Since they had always been successful up to that point, they were too smug to contemplate failure. Another democratic society? Fine, we'll blast them, too. It'll be a good example.
It was the Alpha Quadrant's very particular mix of civilizations and their arrogant overconfidence and xenophobia that finally stopped them.
The Dominion had very clear ideological reasons for starting the war with the Federation. They couldn't allow their conquered peoples to see a free society. Since they had always been successful up to that point, they were too smug to contemplate failure. Another democratic society? Fine, we'll blast them, too. It'll be a good example.
It was the Alpha Quadrant's very particular mix of civilizations and their arrogant overconfidence and xenophobia that finally stopped them.
How do the Breen fit in this schema? As I understand in the Beta Canon they high tail back to Breen and sulk around until the Borg Invasion, while on screen it's clear there not present at the surrender.
I mean, I think it's safe to assume to that Breen wouldn't pose that much of a threat alone.
I think there's only one logical course for the Breen to take, in either Alpha or Beta canon- which is to hightail it back to Breen territory and brood.
Well the Founders wanted to sterilize(Glass) Earth because they knew it would be a hotbed of resistance. and their was the whole killing 800 Million Cardassian civilians in the last hours of the war.
But that was not because of their race or heritage but in the first case to stop the rebellion before it could started and in the second case it was to punish the Cardasians for their betrayal
The Founders had a huge prejudice against solids and saw them as something to be subjugated or destroyed. The Cardassians were already on Female Founders exterminate list due to their assault alongside the Tal Shiar. It was just a matter of time. There is no denying that The Founders saw themselves as superior to everyone else.
I think it may have something to do with keeping the sockpuppet population from becoming an invasive species.
Now if we could only do something about negligent retconning.....
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I think your direct comparisons are forced enough that they don't work. WW2 was obviously a reference point for the writers, but it seems to be more of a duck in duck out thing, no single power is analogous to a real-world power in WW2.
The problem is that the reality of WW2 is that it was won by a combination of US industrial power and the sheer size, population and determination of the USSR. It also would not have been won without stubborn resistance by Britain when a lot of governments would have thrown in the towel.
The Dominion War fleets are dominated by the forces of the Federation, to the extent that the Dominion call them the Federation alliance. They have a plucky but increasingly weakened ally in the Klingons, so you could refer to them as the Brits (look up the HMS Jervis Bay, the Royal Navy was certainly part Klingon). The Romulans joined late like the US in WW2, but before that were almost more pro-Dominion, so their late arrival is like the USA, their sometime playing of both sides rather more like the USSR.
The Japanese do make a nice analogy for the Breen, a suprisingly technically capable foe who put the traditional powers on the back foot after a sneak attack but ultimately not strong enough to prevail? Pretty much Japan in WW2.
Interesting discussion point though.
