Retro Review: The Alternate

[TrekToday]

Dr. Mora, the Bajoran scientist who first recognized Odo’s sentience, comes to the station to track the shapeshifter’s origins. Plot Summary: While Odo is taunting Quark about a shady business deal, they are interrupted by Dr. Mora Pel, the Bajoran scientist who first realized that he was a sentient being. Mora has found DNA samples [...]

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[toughlittleship]

This episode was good, but it would have been greater if it was made in the later seasons. That said, I love how the production staff placed the mural from this episode in "The Search" to indicate Changelings were once on the planet.

 

[DS9Continuing]

For some reason it never actually occurred to me that the little iron-filings alien might have actually been a changeling, possibly even one of the Hundred. In retrospect it makes perfect sense.

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[DS9forever]

I suppose once Odo's people were revealed, the writers had no real interest on mentioning the events of this episode or "Vortex" again.