Other than Kirk rising to emperor, that's the gist of the mirror universe stories on DS9: Mirror-Spock's less authoritarian, more pacifist policies (inspired by his meeting our 'prime' universe Kirk/McCoy/Scott/Uhura in the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror") weakened the empire such that the Klingons and Cardassians—with the help of other peoples previously enslaved by humanity such as the Bajorans—overthrew the empire and in turn subjugated the human race (and, presumably, Vulcans too).
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