Spidey,
A Dominion/Borg war would've been cool as hell. I really like that idea. A Borg/Dominion contact was hinted at in one of the DS9 Relaunch books, but unfortunately it wasn't explored in detail.
Other than that, we will have to agree to disagree about VOY. I'm with Superfreak in that I thought VOY basically sucked.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed a few VOY eps.-"Scorpion Pt. 1 & 2, " "Unity", the Seska episodes, the Hirogen/WW2 holodeck eps., "Year of Hell", "Equinox". "Dark Frontier" was okay too. And there were several others.
However, VOY was a chore to watch for me. I didn't care about any of the characters. Not only did they ruin the Borg, they ruined the Q, and their own creation-Species 8472.
Other promising alien adversaries-Krenim, Voth, Vidiian, Swarm, Vaadwaur-were often mishandled, while we got heapings of the Klingon retread Kazon. I often wondered what the VOY creators were thinking.
When the TNG guys realized that the Ferengi weren't as menacing as they thought, they created the Borg and Cardassians. DS9 took the Cardassians, fleshed them out. But they didn't stop there. They also created a kickass anti-Federation in the Dominion.
VOY's creators focused on the wrong villians in my opinion. Reusing the Borg instead of building their own bad guys and adding to the Trek universe with some really cool, different, and interesting adversaries.
And I really didn't like their finale. Things were wrapped up way too neatly. Janeway blantantly violated Federation law because a few of her crew died. Well, guess what, dealing with death is part of a captain's job...even for the one's close to you.
Every other captain had to learn how to deal with it, but the way Adm. Janeway conducted herself was selfish and childish. If maybe the future had really been bad, with the Federation under the control of the Dominion or the Borg or something, I could understand Janeway's decision. But there wasn't enough at stake for my taste.
Then, the missiles that can destroy a Borg sphere/cube as easy as pie, that was crappy. Same with the Batmobile-like armor plating. Oh gee whizz cool! Yeah, right. It totally made the Borg pathetic.
The ship-Voyager-was also too clean. Outside of a few mentions there didn't seem to be a sense that they were really on their own in a dangerous part of space. With BSG-we see sweat, grime, and discussions and searches for resources. There's more of a sense of desperation.
VOY always had a well-lighted ship and clean uniforms. They could even use the holodeck.
And the Maquis totally folded to Janeway far too quickly, taking away a lot of interesting possibilities for internal conflict and drama. That's one of the reasons I liked Seska. I hated when she left the show. She was VOY's best villian IMO.
Lastly, Superfreak I agree with your statement about ENT's tech. If it had been up to me, I would've had the crew using guns with bullets, or laser guns at least. They would also have used nuclear warheads to be more consistent with the TOS ep. "Balance of Terror".
The transporter would still be in the testing stages and not aboard the ship. There would be no main view screen.
Also, I wouldn't have the Klingons in the show period. It would help set the show apart. So would an all human crew, which is what I would've also thought would've been interesting to see. Instead, we largely got more of the same.
