That's the one (lo and behold it was Voyager, after all)! Curious if that's where your mind was when you threw the idea of writing that story of yours?
Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkedd6A6_mU was one of the funniest trek videos I’ve seen.
Focussing on the Klingon Empire (or the Mirror Universe Terran Empire) would let you do that without even having any tension with existing canon.