My thoughts on the Dominion colonization thing:

The Dominion is rather unique in that its dominant species, the Founders, aren't interested in creating large and populous societies like the humanoid species are. This makes the whole issue of colonization a tricky one, as we see here.

Addressing this involves answering a couple of questions. The first of these would be do the Dominion colonize other worlds? The second question would be who would live in Dominion colony?

I think the answer to the first question is yes. The Dominion is portrayed as a vast empire, and even with the Jem'Hadar, one would imagine that their existence would be imperiled if their subject species (both the willing and unwilling subjects) were allowed to expand and explode in population without the Founders doing so themselves.

The answer to the second question is less clear. The Changelings seem to be able to tolerate a very wide range of conditions (as exemplified by Odo). They indeed may be more adaptable than humanoids, who are generally restricted to very Earth-like conditions. So, if the Founders want to establish new "Great Links" (which would probably be wise), it seems many different types of planets would do.

There is nothing special about a warm rogue planet, other than the presence of vast amounts of hydrogen (and presumably, helium, and hydrogen compounds such methane, ammonia, and water). Such planets would have the advantage of being inhospitable to humanoids, which maybe helpful for the Founders in keeping off-worlders away.

If their empire is focused on strict military and industrial domination, then they basically only need four classes of people: soldiers (the Jem'Hadar), workers, scientists, and leaders/commanders (the Vorta). They don't really need throngs of civilians, just people to fill these roles. The Jem'Hadar and the Vorta fill two of those roles. I don't think it's ever made clear on screen who fulfills the worker and scientist roles in the Dominion. One would imagine that it's unwise to trust their subject species in some of those roles, particularly scientists. They don't need to worry about spies, as the Changelings perform that role all too well. Your colonists would consist of the individuals to fill these niches in the Dominion economy.

Those are my thoughts.

Iceman said: "If earth's temp would change by a couple degrees, it'd be a different planet."
I say: I believe we'll live to see this change.

To JayMan: Eveything you said so far regarding certain aspects of this game is scientifically sound. But this is science-fiction. Some science-facts need to be put aside in order for science-fiction to work. For example, subspace. Without it, there would be no instant communication in Star Trek. Or dilithium... no long-range space travel. All, things aside, those fictional green stars look nice. I'd love to see some pink stars too!

Sounds good, but since the Cardassians enjoy humid and warm climates, they should be native to a jungle-type planet. Cardassians used to complain that on board DS9 the temperatures were too low (ideal for humans[which are native to terran planets {which is why I believe that Cardassia Prime should be jungle-type}]). This change would also make their preferences for planets less "unusual".

Since we're not going to scrap jungle planets that was my first thought too, yes. But what we have from Cardassia doesn't seem to indicate a jungle planet.

I guess I can make a new texture that looks more brown-greenish with a swamp/jungle feeling