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[Star Trek] If Quark hadn't gone looking for The Dominion to do business, would the war still have happened?
gpt
War with the dominion was inevitable. Quark may have sped up the timeline as far as how long it took them to notice the Alpha Quadrant, but the Federation is a culture of explorers and would've eventually wandered into Dominion Territory. 

Not to mention that even if Quark hadn't gone through the wormhole, the Grand Nagus would've sent someone else through.