Conflict escalates through the fourth and fifth seasons, as the Dominion infiltrates Alpha Quadrant powers and eventually forms an alliance with Cardassia open warfare begins at the end of the fifth season, when the Dominion briefly occupies Deep Space Nine, and continues until the Dominion is finally defeated in the series finale. During the second season of Deep Space Nine, the Dominion, a powerful empire in the Gamma Quadrant, is introduced and over the course of the second and third seasons, more information about the Dominion is revealed. The Bajoran wormhole provides instantaneous travel to the Gamma Quadrant, a region on the other side of the galaxy. The principal setting of the series is the Starfleet-controlled space station Deep Space Nine, located adjacent to the mouth of a stable wormhole near the planet Bajor. The war takes place in the final two seasons of the series, but is gradually built up to over the course of the five preceding seasons. In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Dominion War is a conflict between the forces of the Dominion, the Cardassian Union, and, eventually, the Breen Confederacy against the Alpha Quadrant alliance of the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire and, later, the Romulan Star Empire. The Dominion War is an extended plot concept developed in several story arcs of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, an American science-fiction television series produced by Paramount Pictures. Cardassian Union (Battle of Cardassia only)ġ,500+ Klingon ships holding front lines near the end of the war in 2375, around 600 Federation Starship participated in the 'Operation Return' in order to recapture 'Deep Space Nine' Station in 2374.Īt least 7 million Cardassian soldiers, other losses unknownĨ00 million Cardassian civilians killed by Dominion.Female Changeling is taken into custody by the Federation for war crimes.Primarily the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants of the Milky Way

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