Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

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I think that is not practical. They are bottled up inside a single solar system at the end. If Cardassia prime had enough resources to (own its own) outproduce the shipbuilding of the Federation and Klingons and Romulans, they would not have got buck broke in back to back wars against the Federation and then Klingons. You can maybe handwave some of that away with superior Dominion tech, but it's not magic. They are still resource bound like everyone else. Yes they would rebuild their fleet and it would be even more painful to conquer the longer it went on, but there's no way in hell they could use the resources of a single world to produce more ships than the ~150-200 worlds the Fed/Klingon/Romulans were producing in total war mode.
They do have the resources by using all of Cardassia. In which it was implied in the episode on why the Fed, Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians had to go in and finish the fight now. Instead of letting the Dominion and Breen stewed in there. Worst case for the Dominion is it will conquer a lot of systems, disassembled the worlds and moons for more resources to build more shipyards and ships. And rinse and repeat as needed to kill everyone and everything in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
 
Now stop.... Candle Time!
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I think that is not practical. They are bottled up inside a single solar system at the end. If Cardassia prime had enough resources to (own its own) outproduce the shipbuilding of the Federation and Klingons and Romulans, they would not have got buck broke in back to back wars against the Federation and then Klingons. You can maybe handwave some of that away with superior Dominion tech, but it's not magic. They are still resource bound like everyone else. Yes they would rebuild their fleet and it would be even more painful to conquer the longer it went on, but there's no way in hell they could use the resources of a single world to produce more ships than the ~150-200 worlds the Fed/Klingon/Romulans were producing in total war mode.
It's even outright stated in the lore and backstory that Cardassia was resource poor, which is why they went to conquer and enslave the Bajorans. (This is me agreeing with you even harder.)
 
The way Seaquest totally ignored plausibility in order to work submarines into every kind of story imaginable was impressive. I remember one which was a Law & Order style riff on the Candelaria Massacre in which the Brazilian government has a genocidal hatred of children and the only way to get them to safety was to use a submarine.

Also, when I was a kid I thought that Darwin was real.
 
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