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*Speculation* So, this is the beginning of the Dominion Arc.
dark4blood
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So, we are probably getting the Dominion arc finally Fall of next year. This is just the beginning as the Changlings could easily replace the Iconians as the next Threat or at least problem. Personally, I hope that they write the reason better than basic revenge or typical bad guy motives, as the Undine and the Iconians seem to have too much in common. The Undine had more depth in Voyager, but not they are all "weak shall perish" TRIBBLE, which is disappointing.
The Iconians would be more interesting if we found out why the other races rebelled and how the Iconians were even overwhelmed , but I guess that is asking too much. Again it would be nice if the Borg got a new Iconian Queen out of these encounters, and if that is the reason why the Dominion start moving again, but I guess cause and effect is asking too much for the way STO has been going. Just finally having Cardassians involved will be fine enough for me, long as they are NOT a sub-faction, though that might require Romulans to be fixed also.
The Iconians would be more interesting if we found out why the other races rebelled and how the Iconians were even overwhelmed , but I guess that is asking too much. Again it would be nice if the Borg got a new Iconian Queen out of these encounters, and if that is the reason why the Dominion start moving again, but I guess cause and effect is asking too much for the way STO has been going. Just finally having Cardassians involved will be fine enough for me, long as they are NOT a sub-faction, though that might require Romulans to be fixed also.
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Isn't Rebecca Simmons already an Iconian Borg Queen? At least she fits the description by hovering in the last room at infected. :P
Well, an deus ex machine (the borg couldnt adapt their nanites against the undine but the doctor can, yeah...) vs. an virus build from one of the most hidden intellegence agencies. I wouldnt say they were downplayed, if you would risk loosing your god (all your gods), wouldnt you surrender to any defeat? Especially if its one of those Feds "withdraw and never return and everything will be fine"- things.
We have yet to see if they had engaged each other or not. Though in KGx you will see assimilated JemHadar.
I fathom they will come to our aid in some sort. Maybe we open an gateway to the gamma quadrant, drawing enemies there and the dominion things its better to ally with us for the times being (at least for the fight) then with the iconians (or one of their servants).
At least the release of the female changeling might come in handy now.
Well isn't it kinda obvious why they rebelled? They didn't like being controlled by the Iconians...if a alien race invaded Earth today and took control of it don't you think the Human race would try to rebel?
The second part isn't as obvious...it is said that with the power of the gateways the Iconians never really built many space vessels...so they bombarded Iconia from space.
no. Actually if you had a detailed conversation with the officer you need to start the IGA countdown, you'd see that Simmons was using a pair of rocket boots in an effort to get over the borg
Which is kinda interesting now, as she was not on board of the escape pods we secure in fluidic space but her ship has been destroyed. Seems like they introduced an story inconsistency.
yes, I did notice that. Maybe Trendy can fix it?
If there's one thing that DS9 era Federation and STO era Federation have been weak against, it's infiltration. Despite being infiltrated several times by the Dominion, Species 8472, Bluegills (TWICE now), the Alpha Quadrant's largest military and political power has repeatedly shown incompetence or blissful ignorance of such threats.
There's no reason why the Founders can't throw the Alliance into the shredders again. The Federation are a bunch of idiots these days and will fall for every play in the Dirty Book of Espionage and Subterfuge
Wait... who's in charge of DS9 now? Oh! :eek:
I could actually see a pvp season with the breakdown of the alliance. Or perhaps a full scale mirror war. The mirror thing could be built slowly like the Iconians were. And we could have sexy bad guys and whatnot.
Or perhaps we could go on some sort of exploration hunt to find something or solve a mystery. Something different anyway.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
The Dominion isn't going to war with the Alpha Quadrant. Not anytime soon, not with Odo being in the Link. If anything, they're going to join in the war against the Iconians.
As far as what else to fight, well, we can kill the Q next. That's how you 1-Up the Iconian War and it's perfectly feasible once the Q Plot Armor comes off, just like it will with the Iconians.
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Subtlety. I see. So, more BFAW?
Most of the antagonists in Star Trek have either been badly written or ret-conned into generic bad guy fodder.
Personally, I hugely disliked everything about the Dominion. They had to be better-er and badder-er than all the other bad guys that came before them. Also, Breen space magic. While I dislike the Dominion, I loathe the Breen.
My prediction is that the Dominion will wind up helping us in the final push against the Iconians but will end up seizing control of VAST resources for themselves. Maybe the gateway network. Maybe a Preserver genetics lab.
We rely on the Dominion to help us win. The Dominion raids the Iconian tech and/or Temporal tech and/or a second Preserver archive and says, "Ha! Suckers. Surrender to us now." And Sela turns around and says, "Oh. By the way, I'm joining the Dominion now."
And the Iconians were supposed to be "All that and a bag of chips" but we're about to curbstomp the living **** out of them
NEXT!
Nothing gets in the way of Player Victory. Haven't you noticed that in the STO story arcs?
Just an idea.
Except it wasn't just one race...it was a coalition of forces that grouped together...why I believe the Iconians may have enslaved them.
Which could also be the reason why they have servitor races now, they bit off more than they could chew and they know that they can't take on the galaxy alone...the fact that they're afraid to take on the Dominion without control of the alpha and beta quadrant powers also lends to this theory.
They need more than just themselves to rule the galaxy...and it's better to have loyal races enforcing your will than just trying to control everything through fear.
it's not a curbstomp. You're winning small victories while the alliance gets slaughtered
Having the Dominion join the fight against the Heralds(Have we seen any more than a few Iconians anywhere?) would be interesting. However it would be a continuation of what we have now. More of the same as it were. I cannot speak for others but careening wildly from conflict to conflict in an apparently never ending treadmill of new Reputations and STFs has become a little boring. The game is sort of in a rut and something radical has to be done to lift it out of this.
I think I'd like to get away from all this "save the Galaxy before sundown" stuff. Devs removed the Exploration clusters because they had too many random maps on the servers and too few ways to properly recreate an Episode from the series where exploration and First Contact were the primary focus.
Although I do not PvP, I clearly see the need within this game for those who do. When parts of the playerbase get discounted or disenfranchised, eventually all of us do. Some real love for the PvP crowd really should be high on the list of what's next.
You know what would be kinda neat? Requiring players to successfully complete a series of missions with a bar like they used with the Delta stuff....and if we didn't achieve a certain goal, the bad guys take over certain parts of the quadrants or some such....making them inaccessible? Just spitballing here.
Exploration was what the Starfleet of the TV shows told themselves they were doing. What they were really doing was delivering supplies to colonies, checking up on colonies they had lost contact with, looking for places to put new colonies, and chasing rival expansionist empires away from their colonies. Star Trek began as an allegory about the Cold War. Cold wars turn hot sometimes.