If the situation were Reversed...

[Marie1]

It seemed clear the Founder was so badly injured it couldn't do anything as complex as move, let alone shapeshift.

I thought that maybe the sickening was due to the Founder maintaining shape all that time as that... box or whatever it was. In which case, I think the Founder should've been something over than a box... preferably something with legs.

I dunno...IIRC we've seen Odo maintain shape as an inanimate object for long periods of time (in "Little Green Men" he presumably took the shape of something aboard Quark's ship for the length of the journey to Earth), and the Founders are supposed to be far more skilled at shapeshifting than he is. I always got the impression that the Founder was sick or injured in some way, since I think if it were able to shapeshift or move effectively it would have either attacked or left the ship when Sisko+co came aboard...

At first I thought the Founder was sick (I'm not 100% sure if they can be injured, what we've seen in the series seems contradictory, and some of it absurd). But weren't they on the ship for quite a while? I know it'd be days before the Defiant got to them. But I kinda thought where Odo had to regenerate every 16-7 hours that maybe this Founder did too, and messed itself up by forcing itself- with as you mentioned its better abilities- to stay in that funny shape. But there's no evidence, of course.

 

[Sci]

In the eposide "The Ship" after the Jem-Harar fighter crashes and Sisko and the away party locate the ship, it's not to long after that another Jem-Hadar ship is on the scene. The Vorta Kilana makes a good point pointing out to Benjamine that the ship is property of the Dominion. Sisko just brushes her off saying in essence Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers.

My question is tha if the situation were reversed and the Defient had crashed and the Jem-Hardar had claimed it, would Sisko have accepted the Dominions claim to it no questions asked, I think not, although this is what he expected the Jem-Hadar to do. Is this what they call a double standard...

It's not that he believed the Jem'Hadar had any moral obligation to leave them alone. He knew that a war with the Dominion was coming and that capturing a Jem'Hadar ship would be a huge intelligence coup that could save millions of lives.

And besides, it's clear that the Federation and Dominion had no treaties or standing agreements as to the disposition of abandoned ships found by the opposite power.

 

[Rÿcher]

How is "reversed" a proper noun?

 

[SoM]

I dunno...IIRC we've seen Odo maintain shape as an inanimate object for long periods of time (in "Little Green Men" he presumably took the shape of something aboard Quark's ship for the length of the journey to Earth), and the Founders are supposed to be far more skilled at shapeshifting than he is. I always got the impression that the Founder was sick or injured in some way, since I think if it were able to shapeshift or move effectively it would have either attacked or left the ship when Sisko+co came aboard...

At first I thought the Founder was sick (I'm not 100% sure if they can be injured, what we've seen in the series seems contradictory, and some of it absurd). But weren't they on the ship for quite a while? I know it'd be days before the Defiant got to them. But I kinda thought where Odo had to regenerate every 16-7 hours that maybe this Founder did too, and messed itself up by forcing itself- with as you mentioned its better abilities- to stay in that funny shape. But there's no evidence, of course.

The Founder was injured the same way all the Jem'Hadar (not to mention the Vorta, of course) on-board were killed - the inertial dampers failed, meaning everyone on board got smooshed even before the not-minor crash itself.