OK, who was the Dominion/Founder Spy on the station?
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^Photon means the illness from "Broken Link", not the Section 31 disease.
Someone around here mentioned a deleted scene that revealed that Weyoun delivered the poison when he met Odo in "Ties of Blood and Water". I don't know the veracity of that claim, but it sounds good to me.
Keeping tabs on Odo wouldn't really require a Changeling infiltrator. He's a member of the senior staff of the most important space station in the known galaxy. All the Founders would need to do is bribe a few of the traders who regularly visit the station to keep an eye on Odo. They could also probably read the gossip column of the Bajor Times.
Someone around here mentioned a deleted scene that revealed that Weyoun delivered the poison when he met Odo in "Ties of Blood and Water". I don't know the veracity of that claim, but it sounds good to me.
Keeping tabs on Odo wouldn't really require a Changeling infiltrator. He's a member of the senior staff of the most important space station in the known galaxy. All the Founders would need to do is bribe a few of the traders who regularly visit the station to keep an eye on Odo. They could also probably read the gossip column of the Bajor Times.
I'd never thought of it like that - I assumed the dying fake Krajensky had done something.
Or maybe it was psychosomatic? When Odo was in the Great Link in 'The Search', he learned the importance of being a Changeling, and that to harm another was unthinkable. His subconscious guilt at breaking this code made him sick.
Or maybe it was psychosomatic? When Odo was in the Great Link in 'The Search', he learned the importance of being a Changeling, and that to harm another was unthinkable. His subconscious guilt at breaking this code made him sick.
If you mean the Changeling disease to make Odo lose his shape that was me, but I'm afraid you have the episode wrong. Odo was infected by Weyoun during "To the Death" while the Jem'Hadar and Starfleet were preparing for deployment. There is a scene where Weyoun claps his hand on Odo's back in the original script - that was where the infection was supposed to happen.
Though (the way it was filmed) you can't really see it happen.
There is nothing explicit in the episodes about who infected Odo.
However, logic would dicate that the infection had to be fast-acting. Else Odo might succumb to the disease at a time when the wormhole was blocked, and would perish for no gain whatsoever. An essentially random Vorta in "To the Death" delivering the poison is not plausible - how could Weyoun even know to have the poison with him at the time?
"Ties of Blood and Water" is a more plausible occasion for the poisoning, because there was open contact between the Feds and the Dominion at the time. But this would imply slowly acting poison, which again isn't logical at all.
"Broken Link" itself sounds like the most logical possible time for Odo's infection. The onset of symptoms was quite rapid there. Odo had no doubt undergone numberless medical examinations in the preceding episodes, yet Bashir had noticed nothing wrong until the moment Odo collapsed.
And we have an excellent red-dressed herring there. Out of the blue appears a "romantic interest" for Odo, a suspicious recent arrival who has opened the new Bajoran restaurant on the station. This Mata Hari grips Odo's hand, and (literally!) the next minute he is violently ill.
When the femme fatale returns to check on her success at the end of the episode, it's her good luck that Odo has lost all his policeman's mental acuity in the "humanizing" process, and fails to connect the dots. The woman then disappears back into the shadows, never to be heard of again. Apparently even her restaurant closes, no longer needed as a front, because we never hear of it again, nor see it on the Promenade.
Personally, I find it far more plausible that this woman was a Founder (one of the dozens no doubt roaming the station at any given time) than that the Founders would entrust Founder-killing poison to random Vortas in hopes that one of them would happen to run into Odo at an opportune moment!
Timo Saloniemi
However, logic would dicate that the infection had to be fast-acting. Else Odo might succumb to the disease at a time when the wormhole was blocked, and would perish for no gain whatsoever. An essentially random Vorta in "To the Death" delivering the poison is not plausible - how could Weyoun even know to have the poison with him at the time?
"Ties of Blood and Water" is a more plausible occasion for the poisoning, because there was open contact between the Feds and the Dominion at the time. But this would imply slowly acting poison, which again isn't logical at all.
"Broken Link" itself sounds like the most logical possible time for Odo's infection. The onset of symptoms was quite rapid there. Odo had no doubt undergone numberless medical examinations in the preceding episodes, yet Bashir had noticed nothing wrong until the moment Odo collapsed.
And we have an excellent red-dressed herring there. Out of the blue appears a "romantic interest" for Odo, a suspicious recent arrival who has opened the new Bajoran restaurant on the station. This Mata Hari grips Odo's hand, and (literally!) the next minute he is violently ill.
When the femme fatale returns to check on her success at the end of the episode, it's her good luck that Odo has lost all his policeman's mental acuity in the "humanizing" process, and fails to connect the dots. The woman then disappears back into the shadows, never to be heard of again. Apparently even her restaurant closes, no longer needed as a front, because we never hear of it again, nor see it on the Promenade.
Personally, I find it far more plausible that this woman was a Founder (one of the dozens no doubt roaming the station at any given time) than that the Founders would entrust Founder-killing poison to random Vortas in hopes that one of them would happen to run into Odo at an opportune moment!
Timo Saloniemi
