What if the Federation joined the Dominion?

[Snowdrop82]

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.

 

[Lynx]

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 what happened to Cardassia in the series.
Or that poor planet in the episode The Quickening where the Dominion punished the population by giving them a horrible disease.

 

[Oddish]

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 could no more have joined the Dominion without ceasing to be what it was then it could have joined the Borg

 

[somebuddyX]

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.

 

[F. King Daniel]

FWIW, I'd love the Federation to meet a bigger, more advanced and more benevolent Federation and see what happens. They'd never do it, though.