sharing a little gaming experience:
playing as "Marqui" I had setup a small galaxy with a Federation & Klingon team on one end, the Romulans to the side and the Dominon and Borg at two other ends. Me as Federation closer to Domion. Early I started fighting the Domion and made contact with the other races when the Borg sweep in and cut me off from the other races. I managed a stand-off with Domion on one front-line and Borg at the other. I knew that the other races where also fighting the Borg as I could give them mission against them and they completed them. But I had no other intelligence, scouts or diplomat ships where all intercepted by the Borg. I feared the Borg would defeat the other races and than come for me, so after making peace with the others I reduced my defence against the Dominion to minimal and attacked the next Borg world, in hope to get some diplomat ships through to further improve relations with my allies and see how they were doing.
The attack first went well, but before I could rebuild my losses a borg fleet jumped in. I thought "That was it! They decimated the other races and are now coming for you". So I prepared my remaining fleet for last battle. Just before they made contact a large Federation & Klingon fleet jumped in. Together we destroyed the borg fleet. It came out the the other races also where in a stalemate with the Borg when I attacked and confused their defence fleet. The other races started gaining ground and "send" a fleet. While I further focused on the Dominion the other races pushed back the borg until we won. Couldn't have been better done in the films.
Big "thank you" for this mod.