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[Star Trek] If the Borg incidents with Picard hadn't happened, would Earth have been left weakly defended at the time of the Dominion war such that the Breen attack would have been disastrous?

Would Dominion forces have been able to easily warp deeply into Federation territory?
gpt
If the Federation wasn't so weakened, would the Romulans have felt like joining the conflict when they did? Would the Federation have *needed* to deploy space-AIDS against the Changelings if the war was going better to start with? Would Sisko have ever come to Bajor if his ship didn't get gnawed on by the Borg? The thing is that DS9's plot is extremely tightly wound. There's a lot of interconnected moving parts and changing things would cause this huge ripple.

It could've ended up worse for everyone, it could have gone better. Earth probably still would've gotten attacked because they flat out did not expect it. They might not have gotten so trashed, but it probably would've still happened.