I picked Other because I don’t think either side would be able to conquer or destroy each other. Eventually (after centuries of open conflict) they’d settle into an interstellar cold war.
Well, the Borg are only a ‘joke’ when they send a single cube, which still manages to wipe out scores of ships.
Let’s talk after they get serious and send 10,000 cubes.
And on the other side, the Dominion lost a small war against most of a quadrant. Like the USA in WWII, not a stick of their empire was on the line or getting damaged. So the wormhole is closed down. They know where who is where in the alpha quadrant and can take their time expanding in our direction.
At that point the two likely meet up in a big way.
Dominion gets its way unless the Borg are really serious about owning that territory, where they get pasted.
There’s the problem with Voyager. It not only built the Borg up as ludicrously powerful, with absurd technology, a nigh-infinite empire that should have been able to simply steamroll the galaxy, and ever-increasing might… but it also turned them into the big joke of the series. Hence why it’s such a problem. One can’t claim the Borg actually steamroll anyone and everyone without leaving open that the Borg get utterly steamrolled themselves, multiple times.
Personally, I just ignore that part of the series because it doesn’t make sense in context. [Insert your own joke about Star trek here.]
Well, taking alternate realities into account, there was at least one timeline we got to see, in-canon, where the Borg had apparently defeated the 24th century Federation, militarily.
Also one of my personal favorites, as it had someone referring to the Borg in a singular sense. “The Borg is everywhere!”
Appropriate, I thought, for a race that was at least originally conceived less as “a hive of insects, with a ruler” and more “a single ‘brain.’”