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Not necessarily. I suspect that if the Voths ever came to Earth, the Federation would team up with the other Alpha/Beta Quadrant powers, as well as the Gamma Quadrant power the Dominion, and yes, even the Delta Quadrant Borg would join in, and together, they would be able to defeat the Voths, *WITHOUT* the help of the Krenim. And lest some suspect that the Voths could beat them all... For one, don't forget the fact that it's not just about 'technology', but ingenuity. Technology is nothing without the creativity to use it to achieve the very powerful goal to survive, and as far as ingenuity and creativity, Janeway is definitely up there with Kirk (and his crew) and Picard (and his). Secondly, remember the way the Borg tend to work. They tend to look down upon Starfleet as not much of a threat, and let their guard down even when Starfleet is right on top of them. They routinely allow members of their ships to board their cubes, giving them opportunities to learn about their technology (something I'm surprised that Borg shields apparently can't or more likely don't even block; perhaps it's a deliberate calculation by the Queen -- some sort of cat & mouse game she plays with them). Also, remember when they were on their way to battle Species 8472 in Scorpion, and they just didn't bother with Voyager at all? Rest assured, they would treat the Voths as dangerously, or perhaps more so than they did 8472. For a third, Janeway/Starfleet wasn't given time to analyze the way Voth technology worked. Every technology has weaknesses; the Voths is no exception, no matter how many millions of years more advanced they are than Federation/Starfleet they claim they are (something that was actually never specified for sure in the one encounter 'we' had with them). Each of the three powers, the Borg, the Dominion, and Starfleet, have a way of neutralizing the Voth's advantage. Obviously, Voyager (save perhaps Chakotay) didn't get a chance to learn much about the Voth's technology, but that would no doubt be Section 31's forte. I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with a dinosaur killing virus the way they did w/the Dominion. Speaking of them, I wouldn't put it past them to try to infiltrate, as difficult as it probably would be w/the Voth's advanced sensors, but I'm sure they'd find a way to improvise. As for the Borg, Voyager revealed that the Borg has assimilated at least one Voth. Add to that the fact that notice how every new species of villains start out as so incredibly mysterious and scary in the very first episode in which they appear and not long after, sometimes as soon as the very second episode? From the Romulans in TOS, to the Ferengi in the beginning of TNG to the Borg who killed in Q Who and went to assimilating in BoBW to Species 8472 who went on about "The weak will perish" in their debut to "That stuff scares the hell out of me" and trying to become weak humans in "In The Flesh". Even Qs were revealed to have weaknesses that made them not all that omnipotent after not too long. It's no coincidence that *SURPRISE*, we've only seen the Voths a grand total of one time, and so as others have stated in this thread, many pick them as the major villain that is going to bring down any of these three major powers. From what we know about them, the only reason the Voths even have for going after Starfleet and the Borg is to wipe out all evidence of the shared genetic markers that they and humans and many other Earth species share. Then perhaps they would realize that they would have to wipe out all the humans that were assimilated by the Borg as well, and perhaps the Dominion would get involved because of a request from Odo. But the whole idea was to keep this confrontation secret, and it's kind of hard to keep a genocide of that sort secret, unless transwarp is more classified than we thought, and somehow I doubt even if it was, something like that could be kept secret long. And as soon as the cat's out of the bag, could you imagine the internal divisions such as mass genocide would cause within the species' own ranks? That would be a far greater threat to that ultra mega-bitch fundamentalist who apparently runs the Voth's entire religious mega-empire's consolidation of power than suppression one lone scientist who overestimated the support he had within the obviously very superstitious society. Fourth and finally (at least for now), never underestimate the Dominion. They are a tricky lot. Before I end this, I'll leave it by mentioning one critical mistake that had me going "NO! NO! Don't do it!!" was Paris & Janeway made was to basically communicate with each other, and basically warning the Voths of what they were going to do before they did it. I doubt they'd ever make that mistake again, if they ever got that kind of opportunity in a full-on confrontation with starfleet and the Voths, let alone Starfleet working in tandem with the Dominion and the Borg.