What would Voyager have done if the Dominion won the war

[Voth commando1]

So imagine it's 2375 or 2376 and the dominion has made a breakout and won the war in a series of decisive engagements.

Knowing defeat is imminent Starfleet command sends a communique to Voyager warning them to stay away from the AQ.

What would Janeway do in such a situation? Press on to the AQ hoping to liberate the federation from dominion suzerainty? Settle down on an M-Class planet and wait?

Flee backwards into the DQ?

Leave the Galaxy?

Would Janeway risk her crew's morale by even telling them such catastrophic news?

 

[Voth commando1]

So imagine it's 2375 or 2376 and the dominion has made a breakout and won the war in a series of decisive engagements.

Knowing defeat is imminent Starfleet command sends a communique to Voyager warning them to stay away from the AQ.

What would Janeway do in such a situation? Press on to the AQ hoping to liberate the federation from dominion suzerainty? Settle down on an M-Class planet and wait?

Flee backwards into the DQ?

Leave the Galaxy?

Would Janeway risk her crew's morale by even telling them such catastrophic news?

 

[Voth commando1]

Edit double post: can a mod kindly delete the extra thread?

 

[BorgKes]

Call in some favors from the liberated unimatrix 0 drones and assemble a fleet of cubes to take on the dominion. Come to think of it, I don't know why Janeway didn't do this in the first place to get access to a transwarp conduit.

 

[Stephen!]

On the subject of Voyager and the Dominion, someone posted this on usenet back in 1997 in a list of rumored episodes.

http://www.hack-man.com/StarTrek/TREKFAQS/voy.txt
16. “Quartered” - Q makes his third appearance as he temporarily brings
the Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant, where he tries to convince the
crew that the Federation has been defeated by the Dominion and that
they’re better off in the Delta Quadrant. This show will celebrate TNG’s
10th anniversary and will feature part of the TNG cast.

 

[Refuge]

Good question. As a Voyager fan more than a general Star Trek fan my 'big picture' view is a little limited.

My first instinct would be that Janeway would try to get home regardless and join in the conflict. She would follow orders and the crew would find themselves being part of that. That being said Voyager encountered some powerful species in the Delta Quadrant. Not sure they would want to be part of an alliance to enter a conflict that doesn't threaten theirs.. but if it did, Janeway could attempt to do something from that angle.

The question of whether she should tell her crew. I wouldn't want to not unless she was certain that they were going to be active in the fight.. but then the whole letters from home and risk of loved ones at home, would mess that up.

 

[Voth commando1]

Good question. As a Voyager fan more than a general Star Trek fan my 'big picture' view is a little limited.

My first instinct would be that Janeway would try to get home regardless and join in the conflict. She would follow orders and the crew would find themselves being part of that. That being said Voyager encountered some powerful species in the Delta Quadrant. Not sure they would want to be part of an alliance to enter a conflict that doesn't threaten theirs.. but if it did, Janeway could attempt to do something from that angle.

The question of whether she should tell her crew. I wouldn't want to not unless she was certain that they were going to be active in the fight.. but then the whole letters from home and risk of loved ones at home, would mess that up.

What if Earth and the Federation had already fallen? Say a communique from Starfleet ""Captain Janeway, we order you and your crew to remain in the DQ, the federation is close to falling. We will surrender in weeks. Are allies are crumbling and the other powers(Tholians, Gorn) have joined against us. Don't risk your crew and ship trying to save us." It's over"

Would she accept that?

 

[Refuge]

I think she would. Janeway as a captain and a survivalist took on some mighty challenges and species alone in the Delta Quadrant. Learned that mindset. I wouldn't underestimate the tactical advantage of having Voyager be part of a recovery plan.

 

[Voth commando1]

I'm asking if she would disobey an order to remain in the DQ or head the other direction.

You are saying she would and try to save the Federation even if Earth was already under Dominion occupation.

 

[Refuge]

I'm asking if she would disobey an order to remain in the DQ or head the other direction.

You are saying she would and try to save the Federation even if Earth was already under Dominion occupation.

Hmm okay. I think she would disobey if necessary. In Endgame she just went for it. Janeway, the ex-Marquis, Harry and Tom, even Seven, are all capable of bucking the system for a better 'endgame'. I do think that endgame would be based on what would be best for the greater good. If they could eventually help the Alpha Quadrant. I don't think Janeway and others would disobey just to save themselves though.

 

[Refuge]

I just re-read that. You're asking if she had been ordered to remain in the Delta Quadrant would she disobey by entering into whatever stage of conflict the Dominion War is at.. in the Alpha Quadrant. Disobeying by stepping in.

Sorry took me a while to process that. I think in that scenario unless she had a good plan to make an actual difference she would not disobey. She would wait in the DQ.

 

[Voth commando1]

While I don't doubt the tenacity and innovative nature of her captain and crew and the many modifications of Voyager one ship wouldn't be able to liberate a dominion occupied Federation.

 

[Voth commando1]

I just re-read that. You're asking if she had been ordered to remain in the Delta Quadrant would she disobey by entering into whatever stage of conflict the Dominion War is at.. in the Alpha Quadrant. Disobeying by stepping in.

Sorry took me a while to process that. I think in that scenario unless she had a good plan to make an actual difference she would not disobey. She would wait in the DQ.

Yeah the way I phrased it was a little bombastic, I should have made the question clearer.

 

[Refuge]

It's a risky thought.. but there would always be a possibility of using the Delta Quadrant as an outpost for humanity/Federation species.

 

[Voth commando1]

Problem is the DQ is far away and I doubt in a Federation defeat scenario many ships would get that far. They'd have to go through the Beta Quadrant or around the galactic core.

 

[Aerotrek]

That is a really really interesting question. Possibly janeway would look for allies or new weaponry before coming back. But I really couldn't call it. I've just started watching voyager again after about 5 years but I'm only on episode 4 so I can't remember the intricacies of janeway's and the other crew members personalities enough to give a better answer. Can't wait to see what others who know the series better will say

 

[Paradise City]

She'd probably hang out with the survivors in some enviromentally hostile area of space that the Dominion would have trouble with and conduct hit and run attacks with what's left of the fleet. Seven would be put to work to find away to poison the Ketracel white..etc.

 

[F. King Daniel]

She'd have gone back in time and fixed it.

 

[Ithekro]

Assuming she didn't get massive temporal transwarping aid to cut the travel time to when it ended, but when it was going to originally end, USS Voyager would be able to gather allies on her nearly 20 year approach to former Federation Space. In fact Starfleet, and the Romulans might even send surviving forces in Voyager's direction to form a new fleet using what tech Voyager has found along with whatever like minded allies they can muster before the expanding Alpha-Beta Quadrant based Dominion forces. The interesting question would be, will the wormhole still remain blocked by the Prophets? With the Pah-Wrath seal it for good at war's end? Does the Dominion have access to reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant, or are they stuck with local power for the next fifty year until the first of their fleets arrives?

 

[Tenacity]

Janeway and the Voyager crew would have alone defeated the Dominion .,, that's what heroes do.