I'd say that the Dominion outclasses the Feds technologically. They've got general-issue humanoid-scale cloaks, their weapons went straight through Fed shields, and their shipbuilding abilities are clearly superior, even when limited to the Cardassian industrial base.Captain Seafort wrote:Sionnach Glic wrote:The Dominion has a solid hold over the Gamma Quadrant and isn't far behind the UFP in terms of tech. It's quite likely that they will only continue to expand, leaving most of the GQ firmly in their control.
I dunno, I think the Dominion was impressive initially but it quickly became obvious that their biggest issue was in trying to be creative and innovative. I mean this is a society that acheived FTL travel what, 3 or 4 thousand years ago or more? Other than size and numbers it really is not all that impressive.
The Federation is like 10 times younger or more. Humanity, which makes up the backbone of the Fed's military has only been a FTL species for 300 years. Other than the Polaron beams, which was something solved in pretty short order, I am not sure what tech they had that was all that spectacular.
My impression is that being a command society and being somewhat isolated from major threats that they are simply stagnated as far as their tech goes. All the innovative weapons on their side seemed to come from their allies during the war. I think that is the big advantage the Federation would have in a meeting in the long time it would take for the Feds to expand across the AQ and the two powers to share a mutual border. They are simply developing at a much faster rate than the Dominion seems to be.