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Cardassians are minions and henchmen
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You read the title, the Spoonheads are usually written as servants either serving under the Dominion (DS9) or as Servants of the Terran Empire within their own Arc,
Wonder how well they'll do as major league villains and serving as actual threats instead of expendable cannon fodder.
Wonder how well they'll do as major league villains and serving as actual threats instead of expendable cannon fodder.
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Not unless in some universe they managed to discover some seriously rich resource deposits in the directions NOT smack dab up against a major power. Like, if they had expanded west or south towards the galactic rim instead of going east.
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As for being a servants of the Dominion... I'd blame Dukat for that as he had visions of restoring Cardassia to its "former glory" and the Dominion was a means to an end. One that epically backfired in the end. And the True Way were not servants of the Terran Empire, they were technically allies.
The Dominion war ENDED the Cardassians as a major league villain completely, not quite as much as the Hobus Supernova ended the Romulan threat, but the damage done will take more than the few decades that have passed to recover from. With the help of Garak, and like-minded Cardies, they have come to be accepted as part of the Galactic community, and are no longer considered a threat, but friends. Cardassians are done as villians. Lets not tread over tired old ground.
Huh? In their first appearance in TNG S4 The Wounded, they were shown as having had a YEARS LONG war against the UFP where they very much held their own; and forced a treaty of The Federation where the Federation ceded territory to the Cardassian Empire. In that episode, The Federation Council and Starfleet needed Picard to 'keep the peace' at really any cost.
Then we found out the conquered Bajor; and before the Cardassians allied with the Dominion, they also stood up to the might of the Klingon Empire during a Civil uprising that deposed the current military leadership.
AFTER the Dominion War (where they were pretty much seen as disposable canon fodder at the end of said war); yes, they are written as a demoralized and defeated Empire; but that's due to the various circumstances I've related above. They could have rebuilt and rearmed in the time between the end of the Dominion War and the current PICARD series/This very game, and could rise as a major Galactic power again (if the people producing Star Trek/ or STO want to make them a 'threat' again.
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
True, probably the best way to highlight the Cardassians in a STO arc would be to have some mystery/trouble stalking them which turns out to be something bigger than expected that takes Alliance-level resources to balance the field in their fight against whatever the threat is.
Yeah...nah, that's kind of old hat rehashing of DS9 stories. I mean it's hard to top the TNG progenitor story (The Chase), where they charged all over to find most species were seeded with different pieces of a code to lead them to the female changeling...I mean the progenitor. I would rather they do something that has never been delved into, because it just wouldn't 'stand out' otherwise.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"