And was never (explicitly) replaced, either.
Why didn't a Founder ever impersonate Odo?
- Thread starter Elias Vaughn
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Because the female changeling said that she'd give up the whole war, and alpha quadrant for Odo. Odo was more important. They let him do what he wanted, frustrating as it was for them at times.
What is bizzare is that a) Odo could impersonate the female changeling (he was never good enough to imitate anyone else before in the show's entire run), and b) that if he could do this, he didn't do it more often.
What is bizzare is that a) Odo could impersonate the female changeling (he was never good enough to imitate anyone else before in the show's entire run), and b) that if he could do this, he didn't do it more often.
That line she made over how they imitated Odo's primitive form doesn't really fly though, because we saw with other Changlings like Krajensky and Laas using the primitive form too. I think the "primitive" form may actually be the default "solid" form for a Changling to take when wanting to be solid, and Odo stumbled onto it without realizing it when he first became that form. Thus it's engrained into all Changlings.
And I wonder if there's a connection to the ancient humanoids, there...
Or the Progenitors were changelings, alone in the universe. They shape themselves, so now they shaped the galaxy. As the eons passed, they dwindled and died out, their ancient civilization long forgotten. The life they helped seed evolved, found them, and attacked them. The founders were born.
The last point doesn't mean much in Star Trek. I don't need to list all the actors who were 'recycled' multiple times, and all the various roles and races they played.
Boy,that would have made a good story line .Maybe the OP should have been a writer for ds9 ,to replace some of the less than the stellar episodes that actually aired .
