Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
Onwards to Victory
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"I am First Omet'iklan, and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember - victory is life."
"Victory is life."
" Our death is glory to the founders" Gotta respect the Jem'Hadar there like Klingons on speed but yet they still fight with honor and do not fear death.
As someone who's played the Dominion arc of Star Trek Online that attitude is one that can have unexpected repercussions. In STO even a Founder wasn't able to get them to stand down when they got that way.
That's just STO's lazy writing. In reality any Jem'Hadar would fall on his own sword (if he had one) in whatever battle frenzy he's in if a founder but commanded it.
I have played the Dominion arc on STO and I would have to agree the story regarding the Dominion and the Cardassian's could have been better, never the less it was an okay story the first time you played through it. However, I have played it through three times once as Federation, Klingon, and Romulan. After playing it three times it really could have been better and I realized there were some poor choices in regards to the writing.
Indeed, they even took what was clearly meant as a joke so seriously the put it in the game as fact, I.E. Jadzia's comment about if there are no Jem'Hadar women do they lay eggs...
They can't even get the phased polaron beams for the Jem'Hadar ships right, they look like lightening bolts.
poor choice in writing, no they just hired cheap writers.
For the most part, STO mostly consists of rehashed plots OR recycled loose ends we have already seen on the shows or movies. It started getting better with the LoR-expansion but didn't keep up.
You barely see anything original in STO. And IF they get creative when using loose ends from shows (like establishing the Voth a little more) it kinda turns into a trashy B-movie-sci-fi. Which is fun in its own right, but simply lacks what made some of the episodes of Trek really awsome.
I imagine it's really hard to make a great MMO out of an established franchise that originally heavily banked on the alien-of-the-week-formula and ended up being full of retcon.
STO helps keeping Trek alive and present though, and that has merit.