![]() ![]() ![]() Both sides knew that this act would lead to open war. In late 2373, the Federation thus decided to mine the entrance to the Bajoran wormhole with self-replicating mines in a last-ditch effort to permanently stop the flow of Dominion reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant. With five large convoys having entered the Alpha Quadrant unopposed, the Federation Alliance realized they would soon face an impossible strategic position. The Dominion began making strategic political inroads in the Alpha Quadrant, signing nonaggression pacts with the Tholian Assembly, the Miradorn, Bajor, and, perhaps most significantly, the Romulan Star Empire. ( DS9: " By Inferno's Light", " Blaze of Glory")Īlthough open war did not begin immediately, violence along the Cardassian border escalated, with ships such as the USS Tian An Men and the IKS B'Moth being reported missing, though both were later located. In the face of the new Dominion foothold in the Alpha Quadrant, the Federation and the Klingons renewed the Khitomer Accords. Within three days of their arrival, the Jem'Hadar had expelled the Klingons from Cardassian space entirely, and completely annihilated the Maquis in the Demilitarized Zone. The Dominion rapidly began fortifying Cardassia with heavily armed convoys on a weekly basis. ![]() Dukat himself was placed as head of the new Cardassian government. In mid- 2373, frustrated at the apparent cowardice of the Detapa Council, and the broken state of the Cardassian people, Gul Dukat negotiated the entry of the Cardassian Union into the Dominion. The Klingon invasion of Cardassia had all but destroyed Cardassian infrastructure. ( DS9: " In Purgatory's Shadow", " By Inferno's Light") The Bashir Changeling was stopped by the crew of the USS Defiant in his attempt to destroy the Bajoran sun, which would have killed all life in the system and destroyed the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan fleets that were at Deep Space 9 at the time. The attempt was sabotaged by a Changeling infiltrator disguised as Julian Bashir. ( DS9: " The Die is Cast", " The Adversary", " The Way of the Warrior", " Apocalypse Rising", " Homefront")Īs part of a preemptive defensive effort, the Trill government cooperated with Starfleet in trying to seal the wormhole permanently in 2373, without damaging the beings living within. The Federation condemned the Klingon invasion, leading to a severe deterioration of relations between the two powers, ultimately concluding with the Federation-Klingon War.Ĭoncurrently, the Dominion was almost able to instigate a war between the Federation and the Tzenkethi and caused mass hysteria on Earth following the bombing of the Antwerp Conference in 2372, which in turn led to a failed coup attempt of Starfleet personnel under Admiral Leyton. The subsequent power vacuum left in the absence of the Obsidian Order led to a coup on Cardassia, resulting in the overthrow of the Cardassian Central Command by the Detapa Council.īy manipulating frustrated warrior sentiments in the Klingon Empire and implanting false information that the Cardassian change of government had been engineered by the Founders, the Dominion was able to trigger the Klingon-Cardassian War. By manipulating a plan originating with Enabran Tain, the Dominion completely destroyed the Obsidian Order and nearly completely destroyed the Tal Shiar at the Battle of the Omarion Nebula in 2371. The Dominion began to infiltrate the Alpha Quadrant with Changelings masquerading as important officials, in an attempt to destabilize the political landscape between the major powers. A Dominion invasion was widely regarded as inevitable, as the Founders were driven by a xenophobic need to exert absolute authority over all other civilizations. A state of cold war rapidly developed thereafter between several of the Alpha Quadrant's major powers and the Dominion. In 2370, first contact was officially made between the Federation and the Dominion, when the Jem'Hadar destroyed the Starfleet vessel USS Odyssey. Prelude Main article: Dominion Cold Warįollowing initial Alpha Quadrant expeditions into the Gamma Quadrant, rumors began to filter through of a ruthless race of conquerors known only as "The Dominion". Heavy, including at least seven million Cardassian troops and eight hundred million Cardassian civilians ![]() Permanent withdrawal of Dominion forces to the Gamma Quadrantīorders, sovereignty and ownership of affected territory returned to pre-war statusĮmergence of the United Federation of Planets and Romulan Star Empire as rival superpowers Belligerents Federation Alliance: Female Changeling voluntarily arrested for war crimes ![]()
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