For thousands of years no body in the Gamma Quadrant would dare oppose them or the will of their gods. Worlds have fallen to the might of their relentless Jem H'Dar and their war fleets, now a new age of reckoning has come. A glimmer of hope from the unexplored regions of the Gamma Quadrant is on the rise and their sights is set on bringing the The Founders and their Empire to justice for the thousands of years of anguish they felt was their solution of order to chaos. A new Empire is on the rise.....
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Way too early for another expansion. Look at the gaps between LoR and Delta Rising. Expect similar for number 3 (ie. in all probability at least one more full season after 11.) That said, you're probably only looking at this time next year if they jump to it.
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There's a phrase I'd like to invoke here.
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The Dominion was big but it wasn't that big. I like the way Ron Moore described them.
"The Dominion does not own the entire Gamma Quadrant. We had explored the GQ for two years before encountering the Dominion, so it's not as though the wormhole opens up in their living room. There are other races in the GQ that are not part of the Dominion and the Ferengi at least have established trade with some of them. When the Dominion told us to stay out of the GQ, it was as if China told the US to stay out of the Yellow Sea. China is the big boy in this neck of the woods, and you better take their warning seriously, but at the same time we have trading partners and allies there and hey, freedom of the seas and all that."
As for who they could fight? I say the Hur'q should make a resurgence and since there were hints at their involvement in the Klingon campaign, it should be the Klingons who lead any fight we get involved in. Their campaign could use a remaster anyway, so they could tie that into the new stuff.
I think maybe they'll stay in the background of an eventual Gamma quadrant Season, and come into play, fully, later in a further season after the introduction of the Gamma Quadrant.
And then we'll get the:
to deal with...
Another idea might be that a group of explorers either from one of the main factions, or even less known races broke the quarantine on Vagra 2 placed by Picard. At first they might have been allowed to stay an slowly some tortured an played with by Armus, before then sending a distress call for help as they relies that something is wrong bringing us to the world. Maybe Armus might get his oily arms on a starship an look for the Titans that discarded him, or we look for a way of sealing him away to protect an save the explorers, even looking for the Titans to determine what could be done with him.
True though we have heard it was supposed to be nearly impossible for the Borg to assimilate a Undine too, but it seems they did find a way, so who knows in the many years they might have made some headway with assimilating technology. As i would think the Undine being from a different dimension/reality would be more difficult to assimilate, and so might have improved the process enough that it is more possible for them to actually assimilate a founder now. Also think of that a borg-founder that can shape-change, even hide the implants from sight, and so would be able to infiltrate societies to assimilate them from within.
Probably an STF though...
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Of course, the Borg would first have to get to them, and I'm pretty sure they'd lose a lot of ships in such an attempt. A couple of Bug ships flying into a Cube, it wouldn't take much (from the Dominoon) to reduce a Borg fleet. Yes, the Borg have more ships and they'd no doubt keep coming, but even the Borg would need resources for a sustained assault; they'd certainly have their work cut out for them.
We also don't know what affect an assimilated Vorta or Jem Hadar would have in the Borg. Would an assimilated Vorta activate their self-kill switch? Would an assimilated Jem Hadar go mad? What would be the effect of an assimilated Jem Hadar without the White?
I imagine the Nanoprobes could be reprogrammed like they were to assimilate Species 8472 and when you think that Borg Implants can mean that drones don't need Oxygen (First Contact) that they can counteract the need for White.
I'm not sure.
Borg Assimilation is designed around the circulary system of a victim: aka the blood veins. Through these the nanoprobes flow to form the rudimentary components, most notably the neural processor in the brain that connects the victim to the hive mind. Then they typically amputate a limb to replace it with a tech enhancement.
None of this would work on a Founder. They have no circulary system whatsoever, and they need to revert to their liquid state every day. Inside they are mostly liquid as well. Basically, none of the Borg technology we know of is capable of successfully assimilating a founder.
With the Undine, it was a problem of finding a way to defeat the incredibly advanced immune system they posess. But in the end, the Undine still are flesh and blood, with brains and a circulary system. So assimilaiton was possible with their usual strategies.
I'd personally place my money on the Dominion in case of a Borg invasion. Both rule a very large chunk of space: the Borg have bits and pieces of the Delta Quadrant everywhere, and the Dominion has a huge amount of Gamma Quadrant (not all of it, but more than the Federation, Klingon, Star Empire and Cardassians combined at the outbreak of the Dominion War). Next to that, assimilating a Vorta would be difficult, since most will kill themselves before falling in enemy hands. Assimilating a Jem'Hadar will require the Borg needing to establish supply depots and supply lines of Ketracel-White, none of which they have any experience in. And furthermore, once the Borg drones adapt to Jem'Hadar weaponry, the Jem'Hadar always got their big sharp pike thingies to cut up some Borg for breakfast.
Meanwhile, the Dominion is extremely designed around long-term warfare, a war of attrition. They have unmatched cloning facilities and shipyards in the Milky Way, to the envy of even the Iconians. Their space is vast. They most likely have fortifications everywhere to keep their member worlds in check. Their losses in the Dominion War were limited ultimately to just a few ship convoys, a few Vorta and a part of the 2800 (much of which later returned still in fighting condition). The Borg got their butts handed to them on a silver plate after Voyager was done touring the Delta Quadrant, not to mention the continued fights they had in STO.
As to the question would Changeling infiltration work on the Borg... no. Changelings could mimic the Borg look, but the Collective would notice the lack of connection of the Changeling to the hive mind. And promptly eliminate said changeling.
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That makes sense. Also, the war with the Federation had seriously weakened them, and their previous aura of godly invincibility was shattered when a Founder had to sign an instrument of surrender and get imprisoned by the Federation.
They are still the big boys of their quadrant, sure, but they are certainly in a worse position than before (they committed very few ships to fight the Iconians, it was just a token force, maybe they fear a large scale rebellion if they send too much of their fleet far from home?).
Part of my previous post:
"Their losses in the Dominion War were limited ultimately to just a few ship convoys, a few Vorta and a part of the 2800 (much of which later returned still in fighting condition). "
I do agree they might have suffered a big image problem, but who knows how much of that ultimately reached the Gamma Quadrant? Most species there mind their own business trying not to offend the Dominion.
Ultimately, the Dominion probably didn't loose anything during the war that could not be replaced within a month.
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The female Founder only went ahead with the surrender after she linked with Odo. The war wrap up is a bit cloudy to be honest, but aside from getting the cure (for herself, and her people) the founders had nothing to gain by surrendering. I suspect a good portion of the war was by the way of some selfish notion to have Odo rejoin the link, which he ultimately did.
Other than that there was something to gain from surrendering other than the cure. They got to safe some Alpha Jem'Hadars, bred specifically for combat in our corner of space. A type of Jem'Hadar that could be further studied upon and perfectionated, possibly also influencing future Gamma Jem'Hadar. And then there were the dreadnoughs, who according to the Valiant were designed and constructed in the Alpha Quadrant. So there was saving the military technology they developed during the war, as well as first-hand experiences in how not to take on the Alpha Quadrant, and how to do take them on.
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