I eat you Odo!!

[Parquar]

Hello there,

Im not really a major Star Trek fan but a friend at work informs me that there is a character in the series DS9 called Odo who is apparently a shapeshifter. I've been reliably informed that this dude Odo can turn into anything he wants to, so my question is.....If Obo were to turn himself into a consumable object such a a sandwich for example what would happen if you ate a chunk out of him??

I've had a little chat with some friends of mine who are fans of the show however everyone seems to be at a loss as to what would happen. Could it be that when the Odo dude turns back into human form minus an arm or something his hand would then just pop out of your ass??

Any answers you could give me would be most apprechiated

Regards

 

[SonOfMogh]

if any part of Odo is removed from him it reverts to a liquid state. It would turn to a thick golden liquid in your mouth/ stomach.

On occasion stray parts of Odo have shown an ability to move towards the main mass of his body when detached, perhaps the liquid would work it's way out of you so that it could slide over to Odo.

Him changing shape after you bit part of him off would have no effect on the severed part.

 

[Captrek]

Where’s the Rule 34 Odo stuff? I know it’s out there somewhere...

 

[happydave]

Logically then if bits of Odo turn to go and don't get rejoined, then wouldn't Odo slowly be getting smaller/shorter?

Bashir stole a bit for testing.
Starfleet took a bit of Odo.
And surely someone pinched a bit while he slept in his bucket. (and my brother loves to call him bucketblob).

If he got shot and didn't move in time, a bit would be displaced would it not?

So logically throughout general day to day wear and tear Odo would be getting smaller and smaller each year since he can't exactly replenish his size.

Though the baby shapeshifter was small. How did Odo get bigger to his full size?

Does the Goo regenerate or grow or something? Was that ever really brought up?

 

[votd]

Odo doesn't eat, he regenerates in his liquid state; this must include absorption of energy from a source we don't know about, perhaps he can convert the energy to mass in order to get bigger, like putting too much air in a balloon....I mean like plants and sunlight.

 

[od0_ital]

In the second season episode 'Shadowplay', the little alien girl shares a story with Odo about a Changeling that was tricked into turnin' into a loaf of bread, and was then gobbled up. Odo realized the punchline of the story and when asked how he knew, he told the little girl that the Changeling in the story wasn't very smart.

So, why would Odo turn himself into anything that could be consumed by humanoids?

In 'Vortex', when he wanted to spy on a meetin' in one of Quark's holosuites, he didn't become the bottle of liquor, he became an empty glass.

Bashir stole a bit for testing.
Starfleet took a bit of Odo.
And surely someone pinched a bit while he slept in his bucket. (and my brother loves to call him bucketblob).

Odo gave Bashir a sample of himself for testin', it wasn't stolen.

Bashir is in Starfleet, to yeah, I guess Starfleet got a bit of Odo.

And the security office could be locked, so when he was regeneratin', the door would have been locked, blockin' easy access to his bucket, and then when he got his quarters, very few people went in there. So, why would ya think that someone stole a bit of Odo?

 

[Michael]

It might also be important to point out that Odo is a ficitonal character on a television show whose bodily functions are completely made-up.

What, I'm just sayin' ...

 

[TheGodBen]

It really depends on what type of sandwich Odo transformed into. For example, if he was a ham and boiled cabbage and peanut-butter and ketchup and onion sandwich them the person would throw him up and no harm would be done.

Bashir stole a bit for testing.
Starfleet took a bit of Odo.
And surely someone pinched a bit while he slept in his bucket. (and my brother loves to call him bucketblob).

So logically throughout general day to day wear and tear Odo would be getting smaller and smaller each year since he can't exactly replenish his size.

I've had some of my blood taken from me for testing yet I have more blood in my body now than I did at that time, I presume that the changelings have a way of replenishing themselves just as we do. How does a being with no obvious method of energy consumption manage to produce matter, or even move?

A wizard did it!

 

[hyzmarca]

Actually, turning into a consumable would be a devastating variety of ambush so underhanded and so brutal that Odo would never even consider it. Imagine that Odo turns into a small amount of a drinkable liquid and pours himself into a cup. You drink all of him in one gulp. Then he turns into 10 meter cube. Your dimensions are substantially less than 10 meters in each direction, thus your body cannot hold such a volume. If Odo remained liquid, he'd squirt out your mouth, possibly causing severe damage to your throat and stomach due to pressure, but he isn't. He's in a solid form. Thus, he just tears your body apart from the inside as his form expands. The result isn't an injured Odo, but a gore-encrusted Odo who probably needs a sonic shower to wash you off of him.

 

[Triskelion]

Don't forget he can also change into gaseous form, as when he wooed Kira; presumably the ingested part could just osmify through the body, emit in a cloud and rejoin the body. I highly doubt he would wait around for someone's digestive system to pass him. Unless he wanted to explore shapes....

 

[Thestral]

Actually, turning into a consumable would be a devastating variety of ambush so underhanded and so brutal that Odo would never even consider it. Imagine that Odo turns into a small amount of a drinkable liquid and pours himself into a cup. You drink all of him in one gulp. Then he turns into 10 meter cube. Your dimensions are substantially less than 10 meters in each direction, thus your body cannot hold such a volume. If Odo remained liquid, he'd squirt out your mouth, possibly causing severe damage to your throat and stomach due to pressure, but he isn't. He's in a solid form. Thus, he just tears your body apart from the inside as his form expands. The result isn't an injured Odo, but a gore-encrusted Odo who probably needs a sonic shower to wash you off of him.

Ahh, the old "druid turns into a fly and crawls inside the sleeping general" trick...

 

[Captrek]

In 'Vortex', when he wanted to spy on a meetin' in one of Quark's holosuites, he didn't become the bottle of liquor, he became an empty glass.

And when Odo, while in the shape of a glass, was thrown against a wall, he shattered.

So say Odo’s regenerating. You pour half of him into one pail and and half in another pail, and put the two pails in separate rooms. When he’s done regenerating, are there now two conscious beings? Two separate bodies controlled by a single consciousness? Or one conscious being with one body, and an inert lump of goo in another room?

 

[happydave]

When all else fails, I just picture him as Terminator (T-1000; Robert Patrick). Except with the evil part.

 

[od0_ital]

In 'Vortex', when he wanted to spy on a meetin' in one of Quark's holosuites, he didn't become the bottle of liquor, he became an empty glass.

And when Odo, while in the shape of a glass, was thrown against a wall, he shattered.

Another reason why Odo shouldn't become food - one bite, and whoever it is has a mouth and a hand full of the constable!

So say Odo’s regenerating. You pour half of him into one pail and and half in another pail, and put the two pails in separate rooms. When he’s done regenerating, are there now two conscious beings? Two separate bodies controlled by a single consciousness? Or one conscious being with one body, and an inert lump of goo in another room?

I'm thinkin' that ya wouldn't be able to seperate Odo - his liquid form is attracted to itself (as seen when the pieces of that broken glass pulled back together). Whoever tried to split the two buckets wouldn't be able to run fast enough with the second bucket before the liquid came back together.

 

[votd]

In 'Vortex', when he wanted to spy on a meetin' in one of Quark's holosuites, he didn't become the bottle of liquor, he became an empty glass.

And when Odo, while in the shape of a glass, was thrown against a wall, he shattered.

So say Odo’s regenerating. You pour half of him into one pail and and half in another pail, and put the two pails in separate rooms. When he’s done regenerating, are there now two conscious beings? Two separate bodies controlled by a single consciousness? Or one conscious being with one body, and an inert lump of goo in another room?

Like the great link, there is one and many, it depends on how you look at it.

 

[Captrek]

In 'Vortex', when he wanted to spy on a meetin' in one of Quark's holosuites, he didn't become the bottle of liquor, he became an empty glass.

And when Odo, while in the shape of a glass, was thrown against a wall, he shattered.

So say Odo’s regenerating. You pour half of him into one pail and and half in another pail, and put the two pails in separate rooms. When he’s done regenerating, are there now two conscious beings? Two separate bodies controlled by a single consciousness? Or one conscious being with one body, and an inert lump of goo in another room?

Like the great link, there is one and many, it depends on how you look at it.

It’s hard to decide how to look at it when I don’t know the “facts.”

Assuming od0_ital is wrong and it is possible to put the two halves of Odo in two separate rooms, would both halves then form solid shapes? Would both halves be able to take the form of, say, a person? Would each be aware of the other? E.g., if somebody shows a picture to the half in one room and you ask the half in the other room what it’s a picture of, would it be able to answer?