if you are a very active player then having many opponents is good. but if you are not a very active then having many enemy is not very good. :D

to me having many opponent make the game exciting. to bad i'm not very active lately.

john,
You are enemy by default. So you should fight with DOMINION or to become part of it.
The dessision for you is easy cuz your planets are situated near to Doninion Alliance network.