Wow I just saw a "Dooms Day Machine" monster vessel by turn 22. I think the Borg are going to be handed their heads. What fun!
Now lets see how it takes for it to navigate the Black hole to get into my system.
Borg went from 2nd to 9th place.
Klingons 2nd
Dominion 3rd
Cardassians 4th
Monsters 1st
Me (Romulans) 19th
All in all I think that the AI is doing a nice job in the early game.