Changelings and Demon Blood and Armus

[Vandervecken]

I was trying to think if Trek had shown us other liquids besides Changelings/Founders. I think Voy's Demon Blood from Demon and Course: Oblivion qualifies. Liquid and shapeshifting in this case. Different--you'd expect it to be so--but still, a liquid.

Can anyone think of more?

I don't think we can count Armus. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem cytoplasmic to me or even in possession of a true biochemistry; for that matter I doubt it is true matter. Maybe it is some sort of exotic partical web suspended in spatial folds, a tension of energy that seemed to have physical properties--something weird(er) and definitely not a true liquid. Also, of course, it was not a product of any natural evolution.

Maybe some folks disagree on all that. So what was Armus, anyway? Physically, what is it?

 

[The Old Mixer]

I take it you mean liquid beings, correct?

(Not thinking of any offhand.)

 

[Kemaiku]

He was living ferrofluid, so I think he counts.

 

[Vandervecken]

I take it you mean liquid beings, correct?

(Not thinking of any offhand.)

Yes I was using "liquids" as the Changelings did, to refer to themselves as distinct from solids.

He was living ferrofluid, so I think he counts.

Oh wow they said that in the Skin of Evil? I mean that he was that, in universe?

 

[JRoss]

Arm us was the cast-off evil of a "race of titans". I assume that the good bits eventually made it to the Gamma Quadrant.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Yes I was using "liquids" as the Changelings did, to refer to themselves as distinct from solids.

Ah, it's been a while.

 

[CommanderTrip]

Well, flotter could turn into water..... not sure what species he was but I'm sure we can ask Naomi Wildman and find out.

 

[Kemaiku]

Oh wow they said that in the Skin of Evil? I mean that he was that, in universe?

No, but it's how his basic fluid makeup appeared to work, if you watch vidoes on those fluids and watch the episode again. Instead of outside applications of energy, it looks like his own bioelectric field was shaping him and moving him.

It would be neat to have an Iron based lifeform to add to the list.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

What about that life form in "Aquiel"? Would that count?

 

[Vandervecken]

What about that life form in "Aquiel"? Would that count?

Yeah that sure behaved like a liquid when it wasn't held in a mimicked shape.

 

[Tosk]

The Aquiel lifeform was certainly amorphous, but I don't know about calling it a liquid.