So why exactly are we helping the Dominion?

Marakith Dax

It has been awhile since DB gave us minimal input to the running storyline that each event generates, and this storyline of the Jem Hadar defecting to wherever, I would like to point out that I, as a player-captain, do not support returning a race back into slavery. Not playing the event doesn't change the result.

GhostStalker

They aren't "exactly" slaves... they're also helpless addicts.

On the other hand... Obedience brings victory. Victory is life.

DavideBooks

We're all helpless addicts, too.

[DDFA] Inappropriate 1st Contact

I don't really see this story line fitting in anyway. The Founders would send in the Jem'Hadar at the first sign of the Son'a tampering with their supply lines. I figure the Jem'Hadar would tear them apart. There's something to be said for soldiers who aren't afraid to die after all.

And as First Omet'iklan said:

"You think you have to use the white to ensure our loyalty. But the fact is, we are more loyal to the Founders then the Vorta ever will be. It is the reason for our existence. It is the core of our being."

Trust me, in the next event we will be rescueing the Son'a. Or what's left of them...

Pallidyne

[DDFA] Inappropriate 1st Contact wrote: »

I don't really see this story line fitting in anyway. The Founders would send in the Jem'Hadar at the first sign of the Son'a tampering with their supply lines. I figure the Jem'Hadar would tear them apart. There's something to be said for soldiers who aren't afraid to die after all.

And as First Omet'iklan said:

"You think you have to use the white to ensure our loyalty. But the fact is, we are more loyal to the Founders then the Vorta ever will be. It is the reason for our existence. It is the core of our being."

Trust me, in the next event we will be rescueing the Son'a. Or what's left of them...

I just put it in my mind as again DB not really understanding the characters they are dealing with.

Lilac Erosion

Oh DB understands the characters and the story in the terms they need to. That would be to not violate their contract with CBS and to get it past the approval of CBS licensing. And to get the story out in time for an event. I am not defending the stories DB has produced just understanding them in the context that they are created. This is not a novel, comic book, or a script. It is a licensed product set up via the marketing branch of a company not part of the creative department of that company. There is a much lower stranded of acceptabile in play here. Think of these as one way of calibrating the marketing departments bar for acceptable.

Dirk Gunderson

I don’t feel great about helping the Dominion (I supported the Hirogen in episode 8) but I am willing to withhold judgment on the story of this mega event until it is complete.

Flemming

Every time you help the Dominion, Spot doesn't get a daily nutritional supplement.

S31

Because Dominion has a peace treaty with Federation and Sona'as are unpredictable just like Rogue Jem'Haddars when they discovered Iconian gateway.

Mirror Cartman

Because we are the Federation, we are the good guys that interfere with help other cultures, including our enemies, and it is what Captain Hikaru Sulu would do without hesitation.

Heading home from near the Klingon neutral zone at impulse power would take hundreds of years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGnAIgzUTY

[Retired] BeamMeUpScottie

Honestly I don’t read any of the text anymore.... don’t know why. Prob be because there are no plots at all and they are rando

Travis S McClain

The best I can come up with is that we apparently believe we're better off with the devil we know. The war is a thing of the past in this game, and the Dominion remains adversarial but contained. Under the Son'a, there's the risk of the Jem'Hadar being marshaled into starting a new war that the Founders haven't demonstrated a desire to pursue.

This hits on a broader point that has always bugged me about Timelines: the default setting of us as Starfleet captains. It would make more sense to me to allow us to either choose our own faction affiliation or to at least be regarded ambiguously.

I'm always thrown off when I send out certain shuttle missions and they say things like, "Only a Starfleet crew is trusted to [do this thing that a Starfleet crew would never do]". "Only your crew is trusted..." would make more sense to me. That way, when I'm sending a crew on a shuttle mission to out infiltrators or torture people, I can just write it off as my Cardassians and Romulans doing Cardassian and Romulan things.