So What Happened to the Changelings on Earth
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It's interesting: I'm working on a fanfic tale to answer this very question.
I sincerely doubt that they would give up and leave so easily. They would try to stir up fear once again, by continuing terrorist attacks.
The fact that there is no more mention of them strongly implies that...something was keeping them occupied.
Also...the fact that nothing is heard about the situation out in the open, implies that Starfleet Intel and Fed Security weren't getting anywhere with finding them, or we would have heard of it.
My theory is that before, during, and after the events of "Homefront/Paradise Lost", Section 31 was working around the clock to deal with those scum.
More on this when my tale comes out. If you'd like...I can give you a buzz when I start posting it.
I sincerely doubt that they would give up and leave so easily. They would try to stir up fear once again, by continuing terrorist attacks.
The fact that there is no more mention of them strongly implies that...something was keeping them occupied.
Also...the fact that nothing is heard about the situation out in the open, implies that Starfleet Intel and Fed Security weren't getting anywhere with finding them, or we would have heard of it.
My theory is that before, during, and after the events of "Homefront/Paradise Lost", Section 31 was working around the clock to deal with those scum.
More on this when my tale comes out. If you'd like...I can give you a buzz when I start posting it.
Withers
Captain
I don't know about terrorist attacks but it seems pretty likely to me that they would act, as they did in other instances, to impersonate high ranking officials. I would think if they took any action it would be along those lines. If nothing else they would want to know that the Federation would ultimately keep the promise Odo made about them not invading the Gamma Quadrant.
The other thought is that they simply left Earth as when the Female Changling showed up after the Wormhole was mined she said she needed to be with another one of her kind which could be taken to mean Odo was the only one left in the Alpha Quadrant after the war broke out. We know they didn't leave their Homeworld en mass so that, at the moment the Wormhole was mined, there weren't any in the Alpha Quadrant isn't completely unreasonable.
-Withers-
The other thought is that they simply left Earth as when the Female Changling showed up after the Wormhole was mined she said she needed to be with another one of her kind which could be taken to mean Odo was the only one left in the Alpha Quadrant after the war broke out. We know they didn't leave their Homeworld en mass so that, at the moment the Wormhole was mined, there weren't any in the Alpha Quadrant isn't completely unreasonable.
-Withers-
My theory is that before, during, and after the events of "Homefront/Paradise Lost", Section 31 was working around the clock to deal with those scum.
Darn, that's what I was going to say.
Maybe 31 caught and used them to further study/refine their plan to wipe out the Founders.
My theory is that before, during, and after the events of "Homefront/Paradise Lost", Section 31 was working around the clock to deal with those scum.
Darn, that's what I was going to say.
Maybe 31 caught and used them to further study/refine their plan to wipe out the Founders.
And let's not forget that there was tech available to keep changelings in one form (albeit not Federation tech IIRC, but I'll bet S31 could get their hands on it somehow), so if they did catch a changeling, they'd have a convenient test subject.
But that seems to be contradictory of the mission Worf and Jadzia undertook in "Change of Heart".
They were trying to save an S.I. agent with intel on where all changeling infiltrators were.
My guess is, the F.C. didn't want to blow the cover of the terrorists, so she went to Odo.
My theory is that before, during, and after the events of "Homefront/Paradise Lost", Section 31 was working around the clock to deal with those scum.
Darn, that's what I was going to say.
Maybe 31 caught and used them to further study/refine their plan to wipe out the Founders.
And let's not forget that there was tech available to keep changelings in one form (albeit not Federation tech IIRC, but I'll bet S31 could get their hands on it somehow), so if they did catch a changeling, they'd have a convenient test subject.
Ditto.
Great question in the thread title and one I have often pondered myself.
Ultimately, I must simply chalk it up to the writers dropping the ball on this point. They hyped up changelings on earth as if it was a huge deal, and then it just fizzles into nothingness in the next episode and for all the rest of the series.
Ultimately, I must simply chalk it up to the writers dropping the ball on this point. They hyped up changelings on earth as if it was a huge deal, and then it just fizzles into nothingness in the next episode and for all the rest of the series.
It's a shame they didn't continue with that storyline because I always found it fascinating that you never could trust anyone. During the first few seasons with the Dominion, the focus was on how the Changelings could infiltrate Starfleet and that they were hard to find (phaser sweeps, blood screenings, etc.). That was all dropped as soon as the war started but I always thought it would have been interesting to have both the physical battles and the Changelings covertly attacking from within, at the same time.
They got recruited by Section 31, and great additions to that role they were.
Perhaps they obeyed the Founder leader's order to surrender. Part of that order probably involved the recall of all changeling agents.
Maybe that Changeling that could turn himself into fog and fire died from it.
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